By: Martin Langeveld While consumers spend an ever-increasing amount of time online (more than 200 million Americans currently are on the Web about 37 hours a month), newspapers have failed — after a decade and a half of trying — to … more

By: E&P Staff The joke goes that every Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist knows how the first sentence of his or her obituary will read. But it might be noted that in 2010 a prominent Pulitzer mention showed up, if not in the birth announcement of … more

By: Jennifer Saba Is the newspaper industry in the throes of a serious loss of digital knowledge? One after another for the last several months, some of the most high-profile digital executives have announced they are decamping not just from their … more

By: Jim Rosenberg and Mark Fitzgerald Journalists write the stories, so it’s no surprise that cutbacks in newsrooms are usually the focus of all those hard-luck headlines about newspaper job losses in the past few years. But no matter how deeply … more

By: Shawn Moynihan “I didn’t have any tip-off, I was home with my wife,” says Mark Fiore, the self-syndicated editorial cartoonist who was surprised to hear he had won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in that category. The two were “having a … more

By: Shawn Moynihan Many newspaper carriers may find their work rewarding, but not like Douglas Jordan does. Then again, most other carriers haven’t been doing it for more than 60 years. Jordan, who still delivers daily for The Advocate in Baton … more

By: Jennifer Saba Is Google News a parasite sucking the marrow out of newspapers, or a beneficial symbiotic pal, that sends lots of traffic to their sites? It depends upon whom you ask. Regardless, the company rightly or not has been accused of … more

By: Jennifer Saba The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), best known for presenting national documentary programs like Frontline, is moving to report local news, saying cutbacks at newspapers have cut into hometown coverage. In a partnership … more

By: Jennifer Saba There’s a creeping fear taking hold among traditional media types that young buck start-ups that have perfected the art of content creation on the cheap with SEO (search engine optimization) magic are moving in to displace the … more

By: Mark Fitzgerald Piet Bakker is a professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam whose blog, www.newspaperinnovation.com, is the most comprehensive source of information about free newspapers around the world. … more

By: Mark Fitzgerald Argentinean President Cristina Fernández de Kirschner doesn’t hide her contempt for the press — especially the nation’s biggest dailies, Clarín and La Nacion — and it’s pretty clear … more

By: Martin Langeveld While consumers spend an ever-increasing amount of time online (more than 200 million Americans currently are on the Web about 37 hours a month), newspapers have failed — after a decade and a half of trying — to … more

By: Ken Smickle Whenever i hear the doom-and-gloom prognostications about the future of newspapers, my mind flashes to Philadelphia. The city, whose history embodies so much of our nation's origins, is also home to one of my favorite newspapers, … more

By: Ken Smickle Whenever i hear the doom-and-gloom prognostications about the future of newspapers, my mind flashes to Philadelphia. The city, whose history embodies so much of our nation's origins, is also home to one of my favorite newspapers, … more