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North American newsprint data for December reflects continued weakness in U.S. newsprint consumption and slippage in overseas shipments.
Pressing Issues
Exactly five years ago, when E&P was still a weekly, we published a special issue with George Bush on the cover that raised troubling issues about the administration's case for war. The simple cover line told it all: "Unanswered Questions." Here is a remarkable Q & A from that issue.
Newspaper Beat
New Tribune Co. Chairman and CEO Sam Zell was lionized last week for an employee handbook that dispenses with H.R.-speak in favor of shirt-sleeves English, as Paul Harvey likes to say, and a joke-y tone.
Pressing Issues
Michael Gordon and Andrew Bacevich fundamentally disagree on the "surge" and the urgency to extract the U.S. from Iraq as soon as feasible.
Shoptalk
Brian Turner had a master?s in fine arts degree tucked in his ruck sack when he enlisted at the age of 30. He delivers another language medium, beyond the prose of journalism, to help people learn the colors of war.
Pressing Issues
Shoptalk
While residents may care about the bigger national issues, stories about who made AP Honor Roll at the high school and the car crash that killed the neighbor's dog are what may appeal to them more directly.
The Biz
The axeman came at newspapers large and small and now companies are issuing statements with much of the same tone. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that for the first 10 months of 2007, the number of employees in the newspaper industry declined 2.8%.
Pressing Issues
Upton Sinclair is back, thanks to 'There Will Be Blood' movie ties. But in 1934 his race for governor gave birth to the modern media-based political campaign.
Syndicate World
The Feb. 10 action urging newspapers to run a more diverse lineup of comics will come almost exactly two decades after the mostly white landscape of "the funnies" was a much-discussed issue in syndication.
Shoptalk
The IAPA is not defending press freedom, but rather taking sides in a partisan struggle in a politically polarized country.
Stop the Presses
What we'd like your magic wand to do, news industry people kept telling me, is change the culture at our company and in our newsroom, because it's holding us back and ensuring our ultimate failure.
Pressing Issues
Another U.S. soldier has died from "noncombat" causes in Iraq, but this time it happened on Christmas Day -- and it produced a remarkable response from people who knew him back in his own school days.
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