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The information superhighway is lined with critics peddling their commentary and expectations to the newspaper industry. Self-appointed, self-absorbed "experts" who most likely have never sold advertising in a depressed economy, negotiated contracts …
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Jeff Fleming
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12/1/10
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While students today need to know everything from GPS to HTML5 to prepare for careers as journalists, I never let a class escape my clutches without acquainting them with eight Key Quotes to guide them through their careers. Unlike the …
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Allan D. Mutter
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12/1/10
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It's anything but a surprise, but the news industry is failing. The worst of the storm is upon us now. According to the American Society of News Editors, 5,200 daily newspaper reporters lost their jobs in 2009 - the least severe cut since 2007, …
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Mike Koehler
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12/1/10
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The information superhighway is lined with critics peddling their commentary and expectations to the newspaper industry. Self-appointed, self-absorbed "experts" who most likely have never sold advertising in a depressed economy, negotiated contracts …
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Jeff Fleming
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12/1/10
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By: E&P Staff In the past five years, legislation to at last create a federal shield law has not progressed so far as in 2010. The Free Flow of Information Act, S. 448, has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and is ready for a vote by the …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Alan D. Mutter Publishers got a huge vote of confidence when a recent poll found that 7 out of 10 advertisers believe newspapers are well equipped to guide their clients through the mysteries of marketing in the rapidly expanding digital …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Rob Tornoe Taking advantage of a stabilizing newspaper market and the retirement of the long-runningcomic strip Cathy, the introduction of new blood is bound to invigorate comics pages across the country. One of the biggest successes of 2010 is …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald As advertising declines due to the continuing poor economic climate and the migration to digital media, circulation must contribute more to a newspaper's revenue. Circ is no longer a matter of tossing a paper at the front door …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald For decades, the Audit Bureau of Circulations preached that paid circulation was the best circulation, that advertisers should value paid most highly because it showed a reader's "wanted-ness." Since it began to lower its …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald The fight over independent contract status for newspaper carriers - a battle that many publishers figured was settled decades ago in courts and federal agencies - may be re-igniting.Signs of the coming battle abound, labor …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Newspapers don't want to be paper BOYS anymore, and are quitting their routes at an accelerating speed."It's not a core competency - we have to get out of the business of running trucks," says William J. Higginson, president and …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Jeff Fleming The Chicago Tribune is probably not on Jobs' acquisition list, but the following blueprint is how he might strategize its metamorphosis - and since new thinking is what newspapers need, what better choice than to think outside the …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Matthew C. Schmidt These days, it's hard to know just how many brand names and trademarks are out there, and that can make for some challenging writing and editing for your organization.Beyond news articles and profile pieces, writers and …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Ted Rall The Village Voice and the Los Angeles radio station KFI sent me to Afghanistan to cover the fall 2001 invasion. I was one of 45 members of what we loosely called a "convoy"-journalists who entered the northern province of Takhar and …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg What publishers do in pennies per copy, papermakers can do in dollars per ton: raise prices for a product in declining demand. Luckily for newsprint makers, newspapers aren't their only customers, and even dailies' depressed demand …
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Jim Rosenberg
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11/1/10
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By: E&P Staff In the past five years, legislation to at last create a federal shield law has not progressed so far as in 2010. The Free Flow of Information Act, S. 448, has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and is ready for a vote by the …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Alan D. Mutter Publishers got a huge vote of confidence when a recent poll found that 7 out of 10 advertisers believe newspapers are well equipped to guide their clients through the mysteries of marketing in the rapidly expanding digital …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Rob Tornoe Taking advantage of a stabilizing newspaper market and the retirement of the long-runningcomic strip Cathy, the introduction of new blood is bound to invigorate comics pages across the country. One of the biggest successes of 2010 is …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald As advertising declines due to the continuing poor economic climate and the migration to digital media, circulation must contribute more to a newspaper's revenue. Circ is no longer a matter of tossing a paper at the front door …
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E&P Staff
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11/1/10
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