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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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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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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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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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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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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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11/1/10
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By: E&P Staff When your newspaper starts talking about ‘bold’ and ‘radical’ restructuring, be advised: The pink slip is next. With the economy in a feeble rebound, we look to be in yet another “jobless …
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10/1/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg Those who resist to the end an all-digital future for news may now rest in peace, thanks to England’s ARKA Ecopod Ltd. Ecopod makes coffins from post-consumer recovered newspapers. The sleek, curved coffin, finished with …
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10/1/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg Production-management veteran Chuck Blevins and architect Dario DiMare have long aided the operations side of newspapers. Blevins has devoted years to advising on matters of quality practices and production-distribution …
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10/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald After a few decades of outpacing daily circulation increases — and growing even as weekday numbers flattened, then declined — the Sunday edition in the late 1990s ceased being the industry’s circulation driver. …
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10/1/10
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By: Shawn Moynihan NABJ, NAHJ and other groups re-evaluate strategy for membership and annual confabs It’s no secret: Times are hard, especially for journalists of color. As newsroom staffs are continually downsized, the percentages of minority …
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10/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald For all their efforts to create one-order/one-bill networks over the decades, newspapers have yet to shake the perception among big agencies that buying newspaper ads across multiple markets is a hassle. Ad buyers gravitate to …
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10/1/10
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By: Shawn Moynihan When USA Today Publisher David Hunke announced on Aug. 27 that his newspaper was undergoing a major reconstruction that included the repositioning of many key executives on both the news and business sides — as well as the …
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10/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Venezuela’s short-lived ban on publishing gruesome photos spotlights a Latin American newspaper tradition Even in a violent neck of the woods of Latin America, Venezuela’s murder rate stands out as shockingly …
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10/1/10
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By: Rob Tornoe Cathy Guisewite has decided to retire her much-adored comic strip Cathy, which has been adorning women’s refrigerator doors and cubicle walls since its debut in 1976. Now, editors at nearly 1,400 newspapers face a dilemma: …
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10/1/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg and Mark Fitzgerald Even in good times, newspapers, kidding on the square, referred to themselves as The Daily Miracle. Nowhere perhaps does that name resonate more than in operations, with its Pandora’s Box of everyday travails …
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10/1/10
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By: P.J. Bednarski AOL is committing millions to hyperlocal sites in hundreds of markets. So why do local newspapers seem so unconcerned? The new hyperlocal AOL project Patch is adding more new Websites every day, with microsites set up to cover …
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10/1/10
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By: Tom Ratkovich There are encouraging signs that newsmedia organizations are not only transitioning into new models, they are also starting to succeed. This success comes from engaging their customers in a more informed and relevant manner. …
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10/1/10
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By: E&P Staff When your newspaper starts talking about ‘bold’ and ‘radical’ restructuring, be advised: The pink slip is next. With the economy in a feeble rebound, we look to be in yet another “jobless …
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10/1/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg Those who resist to the end an all-digital future for news may now rest in peace, thanks to England’s ARKA Ecopod Ltd. Ecopod makes coffins from post-consumer recovered newspapers. The sleek, curved coffin, finished with …
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10/1/10
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