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The St. Petersburg Times has sued the city of St. Petersburg over a street solicitation ban that prohibits vendors from hawking Sunday papers by the roadside.
Metro US, the group publisher of free commuter dailies in New York City, Boston and Philadelphia, will share content in a cross-platform arrangement with MTV2.
Good news for the news business: Companies are paying newspapers and magazines up to five times as much to place ads in their iPad applications as what similar advertising costs on regular websites.
Philly.com and a theatre company producing a play about a pedophile couldn't quite come to terms on running an ad. When the company cried "censorship," the controversy went viral. Here's the story, and the video that started it all.
Moody?s believes U.S. newspaper revenues could finally turn positive next year -- although it warns that a ?cyclical snapback? in advertising in 2012 could put the industry back on its long-term decline.
Last month, Robert Crandall "hung up his bag, retiring for the second time in his career," The Times Argus Editor Steven Pappas informed readers earlier this week. Some in Barre, Vt., already knew that another had taken over the route that their 90-year-old carrier had trod for 10 years. Many more had to find another dentist after his first retirement in 1993.
The Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat and Tallahassee.com are putting the ?local? back in local search by launching Tallahassee.FindItNow.com, a new search directory that features only area businesses.
On Friday, some 745 newspaper boxes in downtown Toronto will be removed as part of the security measures for the G20 summit.
In late May, a small six-day paper in Iowa converted from afternoon to morning publication. One month from now and 1,600 miles to the northwest, another, somewhat larger six-day paper, in Canada, will join the decades-long trend to morning delivery.
A carrier for the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader was shot in the neck while delivering papers early Monday morning, the newspaper reported in a Web article by Josh Kegley.
The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, which discontinued regular seven-day home-delivery last year, will make it available again in some areas at a premium rate under a program with independent carriers, Freep Editor and Publisher Paul Anger (left) said in a reader?s note in the Sunday paper.
A key legislative committee in the Israeli Knesset will consider a bill next week that would prohibit the free distribution of newspapers as a business model -- a proposal that seems squarely aimed at Israel Today, a 300,000-copy freesheet owned by a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Newspaper print and online advertising continued to drop in the first quarter of the year, but the 9.7% year-over-year decline was the mildest since the first quarter of 2007, according to new figures from the Newspaper Association of America. NAA President and CEO John F. Sturm (left) said the figures reflect an improving ad environment for newspapers.
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