-- McClatchy: North Carolina papers The News & Observer of Raleigh, and The Charlotte Observer are asking hundreds of staffers to accept buyouts. The News & Observer hopes at least…

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Considering that newspaper ad revenues plummeted a record $3 billion (-16 percent) in the first half of ‘08, perhaps it’s not so bad that they were up only 2.3 percent…

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Hyderabad, India-based Pressmart Media, a print-to-digital delivery service for newspaper company, from raising $6 million in its first round of funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and NEA IndoUS Ventures. The…

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The Wall Street Journal, which is basking in the glory of launching its luxury magazine supplement WSJ, also slipped in a reference to the relaunch of its real WSJ., meaning…

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New York Sun, the small-but-influential NY area newspaper which launched among much hype in 2002, may be forced to close after this month if it does not find new investors.…

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Gannett (NYSE: GCI) has acquired an additional 10 percent stake in CareerBuilder from the troubled Tribune for $135 million. That gives Gannett a 50.8 percent controlling interest in the online…

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As we’ve been reporting here, in the weeks since the Associated Press began notifying papers about the new rate plans that go into effect Jan.1, 2009, a number of newspapers—including…

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After debate over the last few years over free and freely distributed metro newspapers and how they represented the future of the industry comes the news that the bubble might…

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The professional contrarian Michael Wolff is coming out with his Murdoch biography The Man Who Owns the News early next year, and Vanity Fair runs some excerpts ahead of the…

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The Associated Press, a co-operative started by newspapers to share costs and news, has been getting cancellation notices from papers as large as the Minneapolis Star Tribune since its new…

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The outlook for UK news publishers is as gray and overcast as this summer’s weather has been, as the latest earnings testify. Johnston Press, the country’s second largest regional news…

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-- LA Times: Having operated without an ad sales head since February, the LA Times has appointed a new EVP and chief revenue officer, Scott McKibben. Marking new Times Publisher…

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Q3 is getting off to a rough start at NYTCo… the publisher came out with July numbers showing total revenue fell 10.1 percent to $235.9 million. Ad revenue, which fell…

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Fairfax Media is the latest media company to slash jobs to cut costs. The “business improvement program” will be implemented during the first half of FY09, resulting in an overall…

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-- Gannett: Another ugly month from Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which says revenue fell 12.3 percent in July, compared to 2007. Publishing ad revs fell 16.7 percent. The hollowing out of…

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-- AP: As expected, some newspapers are pulling out following the much-discussed rate changes for the co-op. At the same time, even papers getting a rate break are looking at…

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Local newspapers may be struggling to latch on the to rise of local online media, but a report from the Online Publishers Association suggests that they at least have a…

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-- Glam Media: The company has hired Yukihiro Yamamura as CEO of its new subsidiary Glam Media Japan KK and VP of Glam Media. No stranger to the CEO position,…

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When newspaper companies released their quarterly earnings for the past two years, the news tended to follow this arc: circ, print ad revenues tended to be down, while online kept…

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The embattled newspaper Los Angeles Times has named Eddy Hartenstein, the former head of DirecTV, as its new publisher, a story first broken by DHD last month. He will fill…

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It’s only slightly less worse than the layoff news that’s been plaguing the newspaper industry lately: The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) is implementing a one-year wage freeze starting Sept. 1.…

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In the latest round of newspaper job cuts, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is laying off 600 employees and eliminating 1,000 positions, writes former Gannett editor Jim Hopkins on his Gannett Blog…

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Online media buying and planning platform operator Centro is going to announce it has bought once-storied local newspaper online rep firm Real Cities from The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI). Terms…

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NYTimes.com has been quietly rolling out a series of sub-sections this month, in hopes of attracting more B-to-B advertisers. By mid-September, new sub-sections will be added to the toolbars of…

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It’s a buyer’s market for newspaper assets right now: Cox Enterprises is the latest to hang a for-sale sign on certain assets, as it’s announced plans to sell the Austin…

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