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On Monday, the Associated Press said that it will more aggressively police its online content, a move seen as a possible precursor to newspapers pushing Google and other popular web aggregators to pay directly for news stories.  In response, while addressing the Newspaper Association of America at its annual convention, Google CEO Eric Schmidt on […]

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According to NewspaperDeathwatch.com, “Two numbers stood out in Friday’s shocking news that the New York Times Co. was threatening to shut down the Boston Globe: $85 million and 450. The first number is the amount of money the Globe is expected to lose this year without union concessions. The second is the number of employees […]

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President Obama, who knew you’d have so many industries to take over in just the first 100 days of your presidency?  Today, of course, the auto industry.  Tomorrow… maybe the mainstream media.  This must be FoxNews’s biggest nightmare ever.
According to this story on NewspaperDeathwatch.com that outlines the suggestions found in a forthcoming book Saving Journalism […]

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The Economist, the British news and political affairs weekly, tops MediaWeek’s list of the 10 hottest magazines of 2009. With ad revenue of $131.5 million (up 25.5% from the prior year) and 2,468 ad pages (up 4.4%), The Economist’s U.S. circulation was up 9.2% to 786,977.
MediaWeek says its Hot List is calculated using a subjective […]

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National Public Radio has achieved record ratings and The Huffington Post is one of the few news outlets adding staff. At a time when the Rocky Mountain News has closed and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has shifted to online-only publication, it’s a relief to know that some news organizations are still going strong.
NPR has been the […]

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