By: Rob Tornoe Newspapers have taken a drubbing from the vast array of free content available on the Internet, but now a variety of syndicates offering free content has developed to help cost-minded publications embrace “free” and use it …
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By: Jim Rosenberg As raw materials costs continue to climb and newspaper demand declines, R&D interest and investment among ink and plate suppliers have by no means disappeared. But most report a focus on process improvement as much as or more …
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By: Abdon M. Pallasch Are student journalists journalists? “It’s our position that students are not journalists,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Celeste Stack told Chicago Judge Diane Gordon Cannon earlier this …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald For a business that jealously guards its right to keep sources secret, that delights in stomping on its direct competition and that often won’t let some of its own employees work together, newspapers form a remarkably …
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By: E&P Staff According to Newsweek reporter Jonathan Alter’s book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Barack Obama personally finds unauthorized leaks of government information deeply offensive, explaining his near-Nixonian obsession …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald When The Denver Post referred to the “late” C.W. McCall, it didn’t make just an embarrassing mistake — the singer with the Citizens Band AM-radio era hit Convoy is living just 190 miles away in Ouray, …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald In his 20 years with the Dallas-based International Newsmedia Marketing Association — 18 of them as INMA’s executive director and CEO — Earl J. Wilkinson has logged nearly three million miles visiting newspapers …
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9/1/10
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By: E&P Staff Media General Inc. (NYSE: MEG) Recent closing price: $10.38 52-week trading range: $4.34 (Aug. 4, 2009) to $13.60 (May 17, 2010) 52-week change in value: 114.1% S&P 500 change in same period: 11.4% The good …
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By: Jim Rosenberg It was hyperlocal. It was citizen journalism. It was 1938. The hyperlocal content was high school sports results, the citizen journalist was usually a coach calling in game scores and highlights, and in 1938 Sid Dorfman was a …
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By: Jim Rosenberg Homeland Security thinks newspapers are a vital national asset to be protected against terrorism. So why are newspapers so seemingly blasé about the department’s efforts to help them? Three years after preparing a report aimed …
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By: Shawn Moynihan It was the Leak Heard ’Round the World. This summer the independent Website WikiLeaks published six years’ worth of classified military information on the war in Afghanistan — tens of thousands of classified military field …
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By: Jim Rosenberg U.S. newspapers didn’t wait for the economy to start hollowing out before emptying out their production plants. By the time many readers found their homes were costing more than they were worth, newspapers already were shuttering …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald AMERICAS EXTRALatin American newspapers are in a good place right now, as this space discussed in the August issue of E&P. While North American papers struggle to reverse the decline of recent years, Latin American dailies have …
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9/1/10
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By: Alan D. Mutter The French, as Steve Martin once observed, have a different word for everything. But a recent groundbreaking study of modern media consumers by BVA, a French market research firm, resonates perfectly in any language. The research …
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9/1/10
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By: Rob Tornoe Newspapers have taken a drubbing from the vast array of free content available on the Internet, but now a variety of syndicates offering free content has developed to help cost-minded publications embrace “free” and use it …
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E&P Staff
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9/1/10
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By: Jim Rosenberg As raw materials costs continue to climb and newspaper demand declines, R&D interest and investment among ink and plate suppliers have by no means disappeared. But most report a focus on process improvement as much as or more …
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Jim Rosenberg
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9/1/10
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By: Abdon M. Pallasch Are student journalists journalists? “It’s our position that students are not journalists,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Celeste Stack told Chicago Judge Diane Gordon Cannon earlier this …
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E&P Staff
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9/1/10
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By: Mark Fitzgerald For a business that jealously guards its right to keep sources secret, that delights in stomping on its direct competition and that often won’t let some of its own employees work together, newspapers form a remarkably …
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9/1/10
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By: E&P Staff Viewed from the still-smoldering wreckage of the financial meltdown, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sure seems like a failed watchdog. As the system neared collapse, the SEC actually relaxed capital standards for some of …
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8/1/10
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