As sharp revenue reductions put the future of many U.S. newspapers in doubt, one idea gaining attention is the conversion of newspapers into tax-exempt nonprofits supported by large endowments.
Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to retrain workers in manufacturing and other industries in transition.
The chief executive of Philadelphia's two largest daily newspapers pledged Tuesday to roll back a recent $232,000 raise while his company tries to reorganize in bankruptcy court, but lenders questioned whether he should run the debt-heavy business.
Four newspaper companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since December, though their newspapers continue to operate. Here are some details:
The downward spiral of advertising revenue and circulation, coupled with rising debt, has claimed two more newspaper companies in a two-day span.
Several newspaper executives launched a public relations campaign Monday to counter what they call "gloom-and-doom" reports of the industry's demise.
Before it scrapped its ineffectual program for selling newspaper ads, Google Inc. was approached by a British startup that wanted to take the project over and try to help the print media slow the flow of revenue to the Internet.
Barack Obama's inauguration as president gave struggling newspapers another sales boost Wednesday as readers temporarily looked beyond the Internet and snatched up multiple printed copies as keepsakes.
Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another medium.
A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers.
With revenue plunging as readers and advertisers flee to the Web, many newspaper companies have turned to selling off their buildings to raise money or save on costs. But now that option may be drying up too, as frozen credit markets make commercial real estate deals scarce.
The Denver Newspaper Agency, which handles the business operations of The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, has asked six unions to accept $20 million in wage and benefit concessions by Jan. 16, the News reported Friday.
Fighting to stay in business, Detroit's two daily newspapers will radically change their relationship with readers by slashing home delivery to three days a week, printing small editions on other days and encouraging people to get information online.
Cox Newspapers said Tuesday it will shut its Washington, D.C., office in April, citing a need to limit costs in a tightening economy.
U.S. newspaper advertising revenue collapsed by nearly $2 billion, or 18 percent, in the third quarter, according to the Newspaper Association of America, an industry group. Even online ad revenue made a small U-turn for the second quarter in a row.
Two Sudanese dailies will suspend publication for three days and their journalists will go on a 24-hour hunger strike to protest state censorship, managers of the papers said Tuesday.
Circulation at the nation's daily newspapers is falling faster than anticipated this year as readers continue their migration to the Internet and papers narrow their distribution to cut costs.
The Associated Press suspended plans Thursday for a new pricing structure that drew complaints from many of its member newspapers facing unprecedented financial hardships. It promised another $9 million in savings on top of $21 million previously announced.
Democrat Barack Obama on Friday won endorsements from two unlikely newspapers — the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
Newspaper companies renegotiating debt agreements with lenders:
Newspaper companies have been skipping loan payments, missing financial targets in debt agreements and accepting higher interest rates in exchange for more flexibility — and they're not even directly feeling the impact of the credit crisis yet.
Newspapers that carried an advertising supplement in recent weeks containing a DVD critical of radical Muslims have faced complaints from readers and questions about whether newspapers should offer a platform to everyone willing to pay for distribution.
Google Inc. is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years, hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading Internet search engine.
Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads.
In a July 24 story rounding up earnings reported by three U.S. newspaper companies and the industry's general outlook, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a fourth news media company. Gannett Co. is the correct spelling, not Gannet.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recalls getting "a feeling in the pit of my stomach" when he learned that the Rocky Mountain News was shutting down.
With the recent demise of The Rocky Mountain News, the public's attention has again been drawn to the plight of our nation's newspapers. In my opinion, within 10 years, they will not exist in hardcopy. Many books might not either.
An extra 10,000 copies were printed for a total of 450,000 copies of the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News which close its doors in Denver on Friday Februrary,27 2009.
If the economic crisis goes on much longer, will there be any newspapers left in the US to write about it? The Chronicle's owners are set to decide whether to shut down the paper
This is such a shock to see one of the best newspapers in the US call it quits after 150 years.
The Rocky Mountain News publishes its last paper tomorrow.
Hearst Corp will lay off a "significant" number of jobs at the money-losing San Francisco Chronicle, and may shut the daily paper if it cannot cut costs within weeks.
In Sunday's New York Times, Tim Arango and Richard Pérez-Peña reported on News Corp (NWS), Rupert Murdock's media empire.
The owner of Philadelphia's two major daily newspapers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, capping a tumultuous experiment to bring local ownership to the city's dailies.
Rupert Murdoch had an office built for him at the Wall Street Journal within days of buying it 14 months ago, and he has made ample use of it — ordering up a wave of changes in the once-staid paper's content and culture, from the addition of a weekly sports page to general news …
So what does this have to do with newspapers ? They should be knocking on the doors of cable and satellite providers offering their subscribers exclusive access to the online versions of their newspapers.
The nation's newspapers were hurting, many closing down, even before the mortgage crunch and its general toxic fall-out effect.
The Internet chews up media and spits them out again. Sometimes they get more robust. Sometimes they get more profitable. Sometimes they die.
The time for mendacities is over. Let's be frank: The cartoon was highly offensive to many, not just Afro-Americans.
More than any other medium, newspapers have been our eyes on the state, our check on private abuses, our civic alarm systems. It is true that they have often failed to perform those functions as well as they should have done.
Chicago Tribune Washington correspondent Jill Zuckman is the latest of several high-profile journalists and the second Tribune reporter to join the Obama administration.
The New York Times just released an online product that brings news stories to you at a glance.
In a discussion about the future of journalism, editors from various papers debate about how the net is killing their businesses
I bought this issue at the news stand, but I'm seeding it here because I think it warrants discussion. They seem to think the solution is paying for online content but I think the bigger issue is the loss of print.
One day, this may become inexpensive enough to be practical. In fact, this new-fangled technology might relegate printed newspapers to museums.
Swenson discusses a possibility to save newspapers.
For years, online advertising made free internet news seem possible. However, due to recent times, newspapers are suffering more than profiting.
A revisionist biography of America's most notorious press Baron, William Randolph Hearst, reviewed by Matthew Price.
Since it's the weekend, here's something just for kicks that's been making the rounds: In 1981, San Francisco TV station KRON aired a news segment about how a select group of computer users were getting their daily copy of the San Francisco Examiner not on paper, but on the …