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New Times celebrated its 10th year anniversary Saturday night at the Voodoo sit. Saucy joint. Good time had by most. Quote of the night heard by the Pulpman: "My wife is dancing with a cigar-smoking lesbian midget." New Times always did experience how to throw a party. So what will the next 10 years hold for the newspaper business? Paul Farhi a Washington Post reporter has in the latest edition of the American Journalism analyse titled "Online Salvation?" Here's a taste: --After years of robust increases the online newspaper audience seems to have all but stopped growing. The be of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites was almost flat – up just 2.3 percent – between August 2006 and August 2007 according to Nielsen/NetRatings. The total number of pages viewed by this audience has plateaued growing just 1.8 percent last year. --Newspaper Web sites are attracting lots of visitors but aren't keeping them around for long. The typical visitor to nytimes com which attracts more than 10 percent of the entire newspaper industry's traffic online spent an average of just 34 minutes and 53 seconds browsing its richly detailed offerings in October. That's 34 minutes and 53 seconds per month or about 68 seconds per day online. Slim as that is it's actually about three times longer than the add up of the next nine largest newspaper sites. And it's less than half as long as visitors spent on the Web's leading sites such as those run by explore. Yahoo! and Microsoft. Many news visitors – label them the "hard-core" – linger longer online but they're a minority. Greg Harmon director of Belden Interactive a San Francisco-based newspaper investigate firm estimates that as many as 60 percent of online newspaper visitors are "fly-bys," people who use the site briefly and irregularly. "Everyone has the same problem," says Jim Brady editor of washingtonpost com. The news industry's continuing challenge. Brady says is to turn "visitors into residents." --As competition for visitors grows news sites are rapidly segmenting into winners and losers. In a yearlong study of 160 news-based Web sites (everything from usatoday com to technorati com). Thomas E. Patterson of Harvard University open a kind of two-tier news system developing: Traffic is still increasing at sites of well-known national brands (the New York Times. CNN the Washington Post etc.) but it is falling sometimes sharply at mid-size and smaller newspaper sites. "The internet is redistributing the news audience in ways that [are] threatening some traditional news organizations," concluded Patterson in his chew over produced for the Joan Shorenstein Center on the touch. Politics and Public Policy. "Local newspapers have been the outlets that are most at risk and they are likely to remain so." Patterson suggests that some of the declines at newspaper sites may be due to increased competition from local broadcast stations particularly TV. Although they got a late go away on the Internet local TV stations are beginning to catch up thanks to copious video news clips and strong promotional capabilities. "A lot of papers are close to maxing out their local audiences," Patterson said in an interview. "It's hard to experience where more readers ordain come from... They have to evaluate out how to deal with a pretty difficult future." Most ominous of all is that online ad growth is beginning to slow. bequeath those confidence-building double-digit increases in online advertising revenue? They're fading fast. In the first quarter of this year the newspaper industry saw a 22 percent gain in online revenue. Not exactly shabby but still the smallest uptick (in percentage terms) since the NAA started keeping records in 2003. In the back up quarter the industry rate slipped again to 19 percent. The third quarter promises even less considering what various companies undergo been reporting lately. E. W. Scripps Co saw a 19 percent change magnitude. The Washington Post Co said its online revenue was up 11 percent in the period the same as Gannett's. Tribune Co saw a obtain of 9 percent. McClatchy was almost in negative territory with a weak 1.4 percent increase for the accommodate and the year to date. All of which begins to convey at one of the deeper economic challenges facing online news providers. Even as advertisers act from traditional media to new media a big challenge lingers: Can online ad revenue grow fast enough to replace the dollars that are now being lost by the "old" media? And what happens if they don't? Hussman has an idea that's so old and abandoned it seems almost new: Make people pay for the news they want even in the Internet age. Hussman obviously is swimming upstream with this notion. Not long after the New York Times stopped charging for its op-ed columns under the now-jettisoned TimesSelect initiative the Sacramento Bee dropped subscription fees for Capitol warn the paper's Web place for political news. The newspaper Hussman publishes the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little move back and forth is one of the few that charge a fee ($4.95 a month) for full access to its site. The site has a modest base of 3,000 subscribers but Hussman says walling it off protects a more lucrative franchise: the newspaper. He believes it's no coincidence that the Democrat-Gazette's create circulation is growing – about 2,000 daily in the latest six-month period that ended in September – at a time when so many others are sliding. In the end it's all about ad revenue -- as you wisely say. Given this consider the latest numbers for ad revenue from the National Newspaper Association:be REVENUE (in millions)ALL AD REVENUE - $271,074 TV BROADCAST - $44,323TV CABLE - - $23,654communicate - $19,640DIRECT MAIL - $55,218 NEWSPAPERS - $49,431TOTALINTERNET - $7,764 PS: Awesome party but I missed Mayor Naugle -- unless he came in draw. PPS: Sorry about running over your wife's toes with my walker.

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Media Briefing for Wednesday. December 5. 2007 Cigarette advertising on TV and radio ended in 1970 so cigarette manufacturers have been using other methods to try to reach the youth market according to critics. From the company that introduced two decades ago comes a new cartoon cigarette ad. An illustrated section packaged with Camel ads in Rolling Stone magazine violates the tobacco industry's nine-year-old promise not to use cartoons to sell cigarettes prosecutors in various states said yesterday. Attorneys general in at least eight states plan to file lawsuits against the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company over the advertising for Camel cigarettes in the November edition of Rolling Stone. The section combines pages of Camel cigarette ads with pages of magazine-produced illustrations on the theme of independent rock music reports. The ads are aimed at teenaged children according to the prosecutors. The reports. The states of California. Connecticut. Illinois. Maryland. New York. Ohio. Pennsylvania and Washington are suing reports The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is handing out coloring books to children that warn of the dangers of sex and sex abuse reports Did the media fail to do its job and investigate for the second time this decade? Was Iran a rerun of Iraq minus the invasion? Did George W. Bush hype the intelligence as he warned darkly of confronting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stave off World War III? A media columnist comments. Fox News Channel is refusing to run an ad depicting the shredding of the U. S. Constitution criticizing the George W. Bush administration and its policy regarding the Guantanamo prison. The reports. The Washington Post is accustomed to criticism of its coverage from the right and left blogospheres but a November 29 front page story about Barack Obama?s rumored Muslim ties came with a twist: Many voices within its own newsroom joined in the firestorm reports It recalls the lyrics of the 1980s song by the Police. Geographic Positioning Systems can keep track of every move you make and also those around you reports the Cellular telephones and other tech gadgets now contain Geographic Positioning Systems allowing parents to keep track of their children's every move says the Geographic Positioning Systems for automobiles are becoming more sophisticated allowing drivers to carry out more functions says the In an editorial the agrees with FCC chairman Kevin Martin that additional consolidation of ownership of broadcast stations should be allowed - in this age of the Internet. Critics point out that Internet sites do not have staffs of news reporters and editors covering local communities the way pre-deregulation era AM and FM stations did. Internet sites almost always link to local stories of existing media such as newspapers or local TV news sites and do not provide diverse coverage. The issue of allowing further consolidation of ownership of broadcast stations is putting Republican FCC chairman Kevin Martin on a congressional hot seat. Observers say today's U. S. House of Representatives hearing and next week's in the Senate will send the embattled FCC chairman a clear message: back off plans to relax media ownership restrictions. As one says. "If he doesn't he's politically dead." In the close-knit community of Washington media lawyers lobbyists and policymakers all eyes will be on Martin today as he appears before the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee reports. Congress is pushing back says reports that the U. S. Senate Commerce Committee has unanimously voted to approve a bill that would delay the FCC's ability to approve new ownership rules for six months. The commission has been heading for a December 18 vote on rule changes but the bill if approved by the full Senate and House and signed by the president would put the brakes on FCC chairman Kevin Martin's schedule. "The last thing we need in the world is more concentration in the media," Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) said in sponsoring the bill. "Media ownership rules are important in a democracy. We won't allow the FCC to rush to judgment and we won't allow the public to be shut out of the process." The U. S. Senate bill to stop Martin from acting this month to relax restrictions to allow more consolidation of ownership of broadcast stations is moving along says There is concern in Congress about the way the FCC is being administered under chairman Kevin Martin reports the Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is buying the religious social networking and information Internet site The goal is cross-marketing opportunities between Beliefnet and a year-old Fox division aimed at conservative Christians reports the Among the many conservative Christians who feel misunderstood by the general public the six televangelists under investigation by a United States Senate committee are an embarrassment. The ministers' on-air faith healings and fundraising backed by self-serving misinterpretations of Scripture reinforce offensive stereotypes of greedy preachers and put their followers at risk say critics. But traditional Christians aren't universally celebrating the inquiry. Some are wondering whether the investigation led by Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa is the right way to end any wrongdoing especially if the result is more government oversight of all ministries. Those under review include Randy and Paula White of Without Walls International Church and Paula White Ministries of Tampa. Florida; Benny Hinn of World Healing Center Church and Benny Hinn Ministries of Grapevine. Texas; David and Joyce Meyer of Joyce Meyer Ministries of Fenton. Missouri; Kenneth and Gloria Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries of Newark. Texas; Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and Bishop Eddie Long Ministries of Lithonia. Georgia; and Creflo and Taffi Dollar of World Changers Church International and Creflo Dollar Ministries of College Park. Georgia reports. Comedian Al Franken former midday host on the liberal talk radio network Air America until early this year and former NBC Saturday Night Live actor and writer says his bid for the U. S. Senate in Minnesota is a serious one reports the The simulcast of Don Imus' radio show on WABC 770 on turned into a "simulcrash," says the The crash is described by In the Middle East. TV is opening the door for moderate Muslim voices says the Newspapers across the nation have been losing circulation and the was no exception. Then the paper totally changed the look of its front page and circulation immediately increased. While you can't judge a book by its cover apparently many people do judge a newspaper by its front page. The paper says it found that the front page should be dominated by an attractive display of the most compelling story of the day no matter where that story took place. Thus began a transformation of the an end to its circulation losses and a rethinking of just about everything else the newspaper was doing. The change to the front page began in September 2006 but only in the edition sold on the street. The impact was immediate. Instead of trailing year-earlier street sales by 7 percent to 8 percent the numbers almost immediately rose by 7 percent a startling improvement that has continued reports. The sale of Clear Channel Communications is being delayed until 2008 says Clear Channel Communications has revised its target date for completing the deal taking it private: it will not happen this year but in the first quarter of 2008 says Internet giant Google and telecommunications carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless are among those expected to bid in January in a government auction of the last remaining smidge of wireless airwaves. Companies wishing to participate in the auction had until this past Monday to file an application with the Federal Communications Commission. In about three weeks the agency will release a full roster of application submissions reports Massachusetts is seeking more use of electronic medical records says the Details of the contract offer from the TV and movie studios have been made public by the writers' union says With the writers strike dragging on some writers are returning to standup comedy says The examines the decline of the critic. is now leading the big three evening network news ratings "horse race" by a "nose," says the In an effort to promote goodwill among its customers and to help promote high quality but costly methodological research. Nielsen has granted another $2.5 million to the an independent client-controlled group that decides how to use the grant money for important research projects. The grant brings the council's budget to more than $7.5 million at a time when many Nielsen clients don't have the resources to fund expensive methodological research on their own. The commitment ensures the completion of a study on the differences between people who respond and those who do not respond to research surveys as well as an ambitious study on how people use media being conducted by the at Ball State University and Sequent Partners reports. The on cable TV are to be reinvented according to the CEO reports. NBC Universal has laid off 25% of 260 employees a total of 65 people reports Some of the investigative pieces by ABC's Brian Ross are being called into question by the Among other things the New York Observer cites passages in Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz?s book published in October. The Observer says a number of passages described Brian Ross? competitors trying to follow up on his scoops failing to do so and then accusing him of overreaching. In one example the Observer says. Howard Kurtz described a report by Ross which appeared during the 2006 N. C. A. A basketball tournament that suicide bombers might be planning an imminent attack on a U. S sports arena. At the end of the segment. Ross noted that federal officials "do not believe any imminent threat exists." Afterward. Mr. Kurtz wrote a team of CBS reporters were asked to follow up on the tip and found nothing worth reporting. Ditto at NBC where NBC Nightly Newshost Brian Williams in Kurtz?s words. "saw it as a classic scare ?em piece." CBS president Les Moonves is quoted as saying he is not interested in older viewers. Advertising agencies have long felt that older people are "brand loyal," for example already knowing what type automobile they are going to buy and which dealer they will buy it from and cannot be influenced by advertising as young people can be reports. CBS president Les Moonves sees a turnaround for CBS radio next year says the A new low power TV station aimed at African-Americans channel 15. Jacksonville. Florida went on the air Friday says CNN has hired Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein to help CNN cover the presidential campaign reports The only 50,000 watt FM station licensed to Westchester County. Peekskill has a new transmitter reports the of White Plains. Westchester County may be losing one of its five commercial FM stations. WFAS-FM 103.9. Westchester county's oldest FM station which began in 1947 reportedly is applying to the FCC to move to the Bronx which would make it a New York City station says This would leave Westchester with just four other FM stations: WVIP 93.5 New Rochelle. WHUD 100.7 Peekskill. WXPS 107.1 Pleasantville and WFAF 106.3 Mount Kisco which has no local programming but simulcasts co-owned classic rock FM station WPDH 101.5 Poughkeepsie. Clear Channel Communications has been cutting jobs in Chicago. Los Angeles and across the nation. Now the budget ax has landed in Hawaii says the There are new music royalty payment fees for satellite radio reports profiles the new Jewish magazine

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This is the communicate post that I intended to do in conjunction with from a few weeks ago. Lo and behold fellow Ted Rall has beat me to the punch with an excellent - of columns on the plight of newspapers and their circumscribe providers. I will add a few things here that undergo been bothering me but be sure to check out Ted's columns. We have slightly different views on the future of the Internet for newspapers but I think we share the same desire to see them bring home the bacon out their problems in a way that recognizes the importance of having quality circumscribe. In the "Media Menu" draw. I describe newspapers as "wallowing in self-pity" as their product steadily shrinks into oblivion. Many people accept that print newspapers are an endangered species not long for the digital world. Given the unlimited potential of the Internet as a method of communicating information the growth of handheld wireless devices and the simple truth that the print medium is an inefficient and wasteful means of conveying the daily news. I have to agree recently made the claim that "reading is going to go completely online" sometime in the near future (although some like argue that "the Internet is making us stupid"). The to see which study daily newspaper will be the first to kill its print edition. While most papers are seeing their steadily declining some are finding that their worldwide far outweigh their print readerships. Likewise while in command is tanking online profit margins (while comfort small) are "." Papers are beginning to to find new ways to alter an online model work. These developments notwithstanding the overall consensus seems to be that the convert up to this point has been "." says "there is absolutely no question that the next 10 years are going to be really bad for the newspaper business." As a prove papers act to cut costs to the bone as we saw recently when the cut out a beat page of comics and they are generally refusing to pay for any new circumscribe. They gingerly dip their toes into vast waters of the Internet (e g by jumping on the "blogging bandwagon") and wish desire hell they won't have to incur any new costs. It seems to me that there's an underlying resistance within the newspaper business to new blood and new ideas as we enter the brave new Internet world makes the point that while print newspapers may be expendable in the new world tradition and professionalism are not. I undergo as much respect as anyone for the traditions of journalism and the populate who came before me (I have a family history in the industry). However. Crowther also complains that journalists with 40 years of undergo are being replaced by "volunteers," or "anyone with an Apple and an attitude." I would argue that the overriding reason for this (as Crowther himself notes later when he re-labels the newbies as "vigilantes") is today's journalists' neglect of their own standards of professionalism. Those who attempted to step into the void were motivated to do so after time and time again failed to represent our interests in the greater discussion on issues of consequence. As we witnessed the mainstream media bring about the parade as we marched to war in Iraq populate like me stopped believing a arouse thing they had to say and fled for bloggers desire or (who I would hardly label "amateurs") or watchdog sites desire. Or some of us simply started to do the research and commentary ourselves. The problem is that these new media "volunteers" cannot bring home the bacon for remove forever and they are getting impatient. This is precisely what makes the an interesting test-case for the future of online circumscribe providers. Sites like the cannot evaluate to act getting their content for free without suffering a "revolt of the serfs." This is not the model for newspapers to follow. What's the solution? Veteran newsman believes the say may lie in the models used by non-profit media organizations such as NPR and AP which are "flourishing" today. By seeking contributions from readers charitable foundations and other sources. Lewis believes newspapers may be able to ease the transition until online advertising revenue can catch up to editorial payroll levels: Civic-minded wealthy individuals who believe in the concept of an "informed citizenry" and public function journalism -- local regional national international... Great work itself will mouth to attract "buzz" online and other revenue sources could change state up from advertising to subscribers/members to paid partnerships with existing hollowed out media corporations desperately seeking content etc. One important detail that will need to be worked out is exactly what our commitment will be to the principle of "." For a brief moment when I started to grasp the dilemma facing newspapers today. I wondered whether this situation may be the flip-side of the net neutrality coin (a rare shift to the political right for me). Clearly populate are reluctant to pay for things on the Internet which is why have been failing for news sites. It occurred to me that in order to change the fundamental nature of the Internet it might be necessary for service providers to put in displace a system similar to pay telecommunicate TV in order to go away generating some revenue for the people who provide the circumscribe. In other words there may have to be some kind of "tollbooth" to get on the information superhighway. Blogger and net neutrality guru quickly helped bring this back into perspective for me: I understand the impulse to say that if the newspapers can't pay you maybe the telcos can. But I'd call this a bit Stockholm-ish. "look the guards have bread if we become their friends and change surface act like them maybe we can undergo bread too. ."The downside when NN goes away is fairly profound. The early scenarios where the cablecos block bittorrent which carries "the other video," to "manage" their networks or where telcos change "enhanced" connections so you can do VOIP instead of using their telephony is just the beginning. The Internet access providers' end game is to determine the "willingness to pay" for each transaction on "their" communicate and rush by that value -- it will be "furnish management" on steroids. Along the way once the machinery to do that is working if a business partner (e g. with a business plan that's cratering due to the Internet) has an interest in blocking or enhancing certain sites or if a government wants to manage its citizens' information or behavior well hey the Internet access provider knows who its friends are. In other words who do I trust more to treat me fairly: newspapers or giant telecommunications corporations? That's an easy one.. since I'm pretty sure newspapers aren't currently helping the government to eavesdrop on my cell phone conversations. Along with everybody else. I eagerly await a solution to the newspaper problem whether it be through the help of philanthropic entities or a new comprehensive ad revenue copy specifically designed for the Internet. Either way newspapers it's measure for you guys to go on the gas forbid wallowing in self-pity and figure out how you're going to fix this problem. "Either way newspapers it's measure for you guys to step on the gas forbid wallowing in self-pity and figure out how you're going to fix this problem."I'd say this line needs to be repeated to all the editors in charge alter now. The future of newspapers has been in my mind lately mostly because I'm one of those guys who prefers to read cram in print (for nostalgistic and archiving reasons). Let's hope the.

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This is the blog post that I intended to do in conjunction with from a few weeks ago. Lo and behold fellow Ted Rall has beat me to the hit with an excellent - of columns on the plight of newspapers and their content providers. I ordain add a few things here that have been bothering me but be sure to check out Ted's columns. We undergo slightly different views on the future of the Internet for newspapers but I evaluate we share the same desire to see them bring home the bacon out their problems in a way that recognizes the importance of having quality circumscribe. In the "Media Menu" cartoon. I describe newspapers as "wallowing in self-pity" as their product steadily shrinks into oblivion. Many people believe that print newspapers are an endangered species not long for the digital world. Given the unlimited potential of the Internet as a method of communicating information the growth of handheld wireless devices and the simple truth that the print medium is an inefficient and wasteful means of conveying the daily news. I have to agree recently made the claim that "reading is going to go completely online" sometime in the near future (although some like argue that "the Internet is making us stupid"). The to see which study daily newspaper will be the first to kill its print edition. While most papers are seeing their steadily declining some are finding that their worldwide far outweigh their print readerships. Likewise while in general is tanking online acquire margins (while still small) are "." Papers are beginning to to find new ways to make an online model work. These developments notwithstanding the overall consensus seems to be that the convert up to this point has been "." says "there is absolutely no question that the next 10 years are going to be really bad for the newspaper business." As a result papers continue to cut costs to the bone as we saw recently when the cut out a full page of comics and they are generally refusing to pay for any new content. They gingerly dip their toes into vast waters of the Internet (e g by jumping on the "blogging bandwagon") and wish like hell they won't undergo to incur any new costs. It seems to me that there's an underlying resistance within the newspaper business to new blood and new ideas as we register the brave new Internet world makes the point that while print newspapers may be expendable in the new world tradition and professionalism are not. I undergo as much respect as anyone for the traditions of journalism and the people who came before me (I have a family history in the industry). However. Crowther also complains that journalists with 40 years of undergo are being replaced by "volunteers," or "anyone with an Apple and an attitude." I would argue that the overriding reason for this (as Crowther himself notes later when he re-labels the newbies as "vigilantes") is today's journalists' neglect of their own standards of professionalism. Those who attempted to step into the void were motivated to do so after time and time again failed to be our interests in the greater discussion on issues of consequence. As we witnessed the mainstream media lead the parade as we marched to war in Iraq people like me stopped believing a damn thing they had to say and fled for bloggers like or (who I would hardly call "amateurs") or watchdog sites desire. Or some of us simply started to do the research and commentary ourselves. The problem is that these new media "volunteers" cannot work for remove forever and they are getting impatient. This is precisely what makes the an interesting test-case for the future of online content providers. Sites like the cannot expect to continue getting their circumscribe for remove without suffering a "revolt of the serfs." This is not the copy for newspapers to follow. What's the solution? Veteran newsman believes the answer may lie in the models used by non-profit media organizations such as NPR and AP which are "flourishing" today. By seeking contributions from readers charitable foundations and other sources. Lewis believes newspapers may be able to ease the transition until online advertising revenue can catch up to editorial payroll levels: Civic-minded wealthy individuals who believe in the concept of an "informed citizenry" and public service journalism -- local regional national international... Great work itself will begin to attract "buzz" online and other revenue sources could open up from advertising to subscribers/members to paid partnerships with existing hollowed out media corporations desperately seeking circumscribe etc. One important detail that will be to be worked out is exactly what our commitment will be to the principle of "." For a brief moment when I started to hold the dilemma facing newspapers today. I wondered whether this situation may be the flip-side of the net neutrality create verbally (a rare shift to the political right for me). Clearly people are reluctant to pay for things on the Internet which is why have been failing for news sites. It occurred to me that in order to change the fundamental nature of the Internet it might be necessary for function providers to put in place a system similar to pay cable TV in order to go away generating some revenue for the populate who give the content. In other words there may have to be some kind of "tollbooth" to get on the information superhighway. Blogger and net neutrality guru quickly helped bring this approve into perspective for me: I understand the impulse to say that if the newspapers can't pay you maybe the telcos can. But I'd label this a bit Stockholm-ish. "look the guards have bread if we become their friends and even act desire them maybe we can undergo cover too. ."The downside when NN goes away is fairly profound. The early scenarios where the cablecos block bittorrent which carries "the other video," to "bring home the bacon" their networks or where telcos change "enhanced" connections so you can do VOIP instead of using their telephony is just the beginning. The Internet access providers' end game is to determine the "willingness to pay" for each transaction on "their" network and charge by that determine -- it will be "yield management" on steroids. Along the way once the machinery to do that is working if a business partner (e g. with a business intend that's cratering due to the Internet) has an arouse in blocking or enhancing certain sites or if a government wants to bring home the bacon its citizens' information or behavior well hey the Internet find provider knows who its friends are. In other words who do I trust more to interact me fairly: newspapers or giant telecommunications corporations? That's an easy one.. since I'm pretty sure newspapers aren't currently helping the government to eavesdrop on my cell telecommunicate conversations. Along with everybody else. I eagerly await a solution to the newspaper problem whether it be through the back up of philanthropic entities or a new comprehensive ad revenue model specifically designed for the Internet. Either way newspapers it's measure for you guys to step on the gas stop wallowing in self-pity and figure out how you're going to fix this problem. "Either way newspapers it's time for you guys to go on the gas stop wallowing in self-pity and figure out how you're going to fix this problem."I'd say this lie needs to be repeated to all the editors in charge alter now. The future of newspapers has been in my mind lately mostly because I'm one of those guys who prefers to construe stuff in print (for nostalgistic and archiving reasons). Let's hope the.

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DeKALB. Ill. - Shaw Newspapers owner of the Kane County Chronicle today announced the acquisition of the Daily Chronicle. The MidWeek and affiliated publications from Lee Enterprises. The purchase ordain involve reorganization of Shaw’s suburban newspaper assort. As a prove the Kane County Chronicle will move its business offices to St. Charles consolidate printing in DeKalb and sell the existing building in Geneva. Tom Shaw president and CEO of privately owned Shaw Newspapers indicated that his company had a long-standing interest in the DeKalb daily.“We have courted them for more than a decade,” Shaw said. “We are so pleased today to be welcoming DeKalb to our family of dynamic community based multi-media enterprises.”Shaw added: “We are a vibrant and innovative information company prospering in a challenging and competitive economic environment. The addition of DeKalb to our family of companies is an absolute jewel of significant value due in part to the combined synergies available with some of our other regional properties.”The DeKalb operation will become a division of Shaw Suburban Media headquartered in Crystal Lake. That group includes two other daily newspapers. Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake and Kane County Chronicle in Geneva; two weekly groups. Lake County Journals and Weekly Journals; a bilingual weekly. El Conquistador; the monthly McHenry County Business Journal; and several Web sites. John Pfeifer publisher of the Daily Chronicle since September 2006 has been named publisher of enter News Group which will include Shaw Suburban Media’s operations in DeKalb and Geneva. Pfeifer will report to John Rung chief operating officer of Shaw Suburban Media and publisher of the Northwest Herald. Rung said the DeKalb property was a good fit for his assort.“Northern Illinois Publishing is a terrific addition to Shaw Newspapers and Shaw Suburban Media,” Rung said. “In the greater Chicago area we will now have a significant footprint in Lake. McHenry. Kane and DeKalb counties. The extended reach and greater resources will accept us to better answer our print and online readers and our advertisers.”Mary Junck chairman and chief executive officer of Lee Enterprises said the DeKalb operation would benefit from Shaw’s regional focus.“While we regret having to say goodbye to colleagues,” she said. “we recognize that the Daily Chronicle and its employees will benefit.

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Kerala. Dec 3. 2007 / 12:16 pm ().- In an eight-paged tabloid-sized newspaper distributed on Sunday the Syro-Malabar Catholic perform has asked its members in the southwest state of Kerala to keep away from the express's ruling Communist Party of India. The newspaper titled 'Malabar Vision,' was published jointly by the dioceses of Thalassery. Thamarasseri and Mananthavadi. Copies were distributed after Mass in all the churches of the dioceses. The warnings were prompted by both the Communist celebrate's efforts to implement its education policy and a party leader's bruise of a bishop. At a meeting memorializing a legislator the express secretary of the Communist Party of India. Pinaryi Vijayan referred to the Bishop of Thamarasseri without naming him as a "despicable creature." The state secretary had been provoked by a comment from the bishop critical of Vijayan. The editorial of the tabloid said. ''The reverberations created by the mention on the political landscape of Kerala are yet to die down. Though the issue was discussed repeatedly in the media it could not bring out the whole truth.'' The editorial also said the Catholic Church had made a mistake by adopting a soft stance towards the 'atheistic' Communist Party of India. The three Catholic dioceses that published the newspaper consider 1.5 million Catholics. The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is one of many eastern churches in communion with Rome. * Thanks for your comments. The number of messages that can be online is limited. Length should not excel 1500 characters. CNA reserves the right to edit messages for circumscribe and tone. Comments and opinions expressed by users do not necessarily designate the opinions or beliefs of CNA. CNA will not publish comments with abusive language insults or links to other pages.

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). As a former magazine writer my print addiction's tougher than most and while I construe several papers online. I'd kept the local cover in hardcopy. But another Sunday of erratic delivery service finally prompted me to cancel my entire seven-day-a-week subscription this morning. When I came back from the gym to find a very late measure copy on my doorstep -- truly too little too late -- I had one measure hardcopy construe. Fittingly. I found Joel Achenbach's column summarizing the industry's changes and the force on reporters newsrooms and readers. One dress: newsroom structures and metrics both now focused on page views and viewers rather than hardcopy readers: A dramatic example already exists at the Daily Telegraph in London where the brand-new newsroom is arrayed like radial spokes with the Web operation at the center. Everyone can see an electronic board that lists the articles attracting the most eyeballs at that precise moment on the Web. It's like a page-view close in. And Achenbach summarizes in two sentences what a reporter's job has expanded to consider these days in inspect you haven't kept up: Marketing however may increasingly change state move of the journalistic mix (along with reporting writing doing an online converse podcasting filming a video diary answering e-mails blogging etc.) Reporters desire immune from circulation concerns are now encouraged to determine bloggers who might cerebrate to their work. So I'm helping Joel out with these links in aid of his "advise: News outlets will never get anywhere if they're obsessed with chasing readers. They can however collaborate with them. And therein lies a hopeful future for the business." If only they'd collaborated better in reaching my front porch on time...

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Waiyin blogs about her trip to Sydney on APEC meeting: when she arrived at Chinese President Hu's Hotel she open out that. It is because she is working for Apple Daily a local newspapers which is critical towards the government. You may use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> If your comment does not be immediately there is no need to submit it again. Comments containing hate speech obscenity and personal attacks will not be approved. Rose Lu from my1510 compares the various arrangement for reporting on. Yesterday most of the reporters managed to watch the Chang'e-1 the first China's idle orbiter blasting out to the lay even though they undergo to register the Xichang air Launch Center as tourists. Xueyong suggests that universities in China should adopt. At show among the top rank universities only 20% of the students comes from rural area although rural population is consisted of more than half of the whole population. As education is a mean to solve cross-generational poverty problem the blogger suggests the university admission should increase the proportion of rural students according to the ratio of population. Fons from China tell brings up into the attention of. One missing element is the collective do work arbitration process.

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