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La Prensa Riverside, the Spanish-language weekly published by The Press Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., is increasing its distribution over the coming months to 107,500 copies from its current 67,500.
A mother in Washington state has been reunited with the son she gave up for adoption 43 years ago, thanks to a classified ad in The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash.
In a note to readers, Publisher and Editor Paul Anger declared as a success the Detroit Free Press move a year ago to discontinue home delivery four days a week, and he said that starting Monday, the Freep will begin offering a ?heftier? print edition on the days it does not deliver.
A power failure in downtown Memphis that lasted several hours overnight Thursday knocked out power to The Commercial Appeals plant, delaying delivery of the Friday edition.
Featured are news, reviews and features celebrating car culture, including the themes: My First Car, Aftermarket, Manufacturer, Car Reviews, Classics/Collectibles, and Events. Also included are items from the newspaper?s Auto Motion blog and the ?My Totally Hot Car? feature that spotlights readers? automobiles.
For more than a week, someone has used duplicate keys to remove coins from the vending boxes of three North Carolina newspapers. The Times-News, Freedom Communications' paper in Burlington, reported the thefts occurring from 20 to 25 of its boxes, as well as from others containing Paxton Media's High Point Enterprise and Landmark Communications' News & Record, in Greensboro. Two of the papers have video of the thefts.
Onion Inc., publisher of the satirical newspaper The Onion and its sister publication The A.V. Club, has entered a new partnership with the Chicago Tribune Media Group through which the Tribune will take over the business operations of The Onion's print edition in the Windy City.
Advertising spending for gay-oriented newspapers and magazines jumped 15.6% in 2009 to a record $349.6 million, according to a new study.
Joe Haughton, a longtime carrier for The Bulletin in Bend, Ore., discovered a body lying in the road as he delivered his route in the early Monday morning.
The Alice (Texas) Echo-News Journal is halving the amount of its publishing days, beginning in July. In addition, it is switching to a tabloid format.
The last Saturday in June will be the last Saturday The Abilene (Kan.) Reflector-Chronicle publishes. Thereafter it will publish only on weekdays. With a circulation of approximately 4,000, the paper has been among the smallest in the state to publish a Saturday edition. The Reflector-Chronicle will upgrade its Web site in July and adopt new forms of communication such as social media.
Sun-Times Media and The New York Times have reached an agreement that will offer Chicago luxury auto dealers improved advertising opportunities.
Information may want to be free, but in the long run people will pay for content, media mogul Barry Diller tells Betty Liu in this video from Bloomberg TV. Consumers have become used to paying for music and apps, and ultimately they will accept paying for information from newspapers, he argues.
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