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Hollywood Reporter to Become a Weekly Magazine

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:58:13 -0400

Full article: New York Times
Brooks Barnes and Jeremy W. Peters
The Hollywood Reporter has been dying a slow death for a decade, bleeding from layoffs, vanishing advertisers and diminished relevance in a news cycle now dominated by cutthroat entertainment blogs. Its top editors and executives all agreed: to save the Reporter, a mere refocusing of the business model would not do; they needed to eviscerate it.

USA Today Cuts 9 Percent of Staff, Shifts Focus Away from the Newspaper

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:09:48 -0400

Full article: New York Observer
Zeke Turner
USA Today publisher Dave Hunke is cutting 9 percent of his staff and shuffling the executive deck at the paper. "This gets us ready for our next quarter century," Hunke said. It's still unclear which sections of the operation will be hardest hit, although it looks like 130 people will be out of a job.

For College Newspapers, Prepackaged Online Versions Are Yesterday's News

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:27:14 -0400

Full article: Chronicle of Higher Education
Kelly Truong
Approximately 600 student newspapers use College Publisher, a content-management system owned by College Media Network. The service offers Web-page templates and around-the-clock technical support, a draw for student journalists with limited resources. However, the uniformity of the templates limits what journalists can do on the Web.

Media Industry Risks Getting Caught on Video

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:23:50 -0400

Full article: Wall Street Journal
Martin Peers
The cable-TV industry likes to talk about growth in terms of households connecting and disconnecting to their services. But the biggest disconnect of all may be in the industry's thinking.

Business News Outlet Rises to Focus on China, in English

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:58:44 -0400

Full article: New York Times
Bettina Wassener
Many news organizations around the world have been cutting back on staff, resources and coverage. But a new media outfit backed by one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessmen is bucking that trend.

Google's Quest to Save Newspapers

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:57:32 -0400

Full article: On the Media
Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business. Few people know how hard Google is trying to bring it back to life. How does Google plan to do it?

Blog Networks Try One More Time to Turn Local Journalism into Cash

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:58:25 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Mathew Ingram
Can building a network of local bloggers help turn online journalism into a money-making proposition? Two new media ventures are hoping that it can, and have partnered with a startup called GrowthSpur to try and make that hope become a reality.

Are Newspapers Sticking to a Premium Strategy Amid Digital Disruption?

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:56:00 -0400

Full article: Poynter.org
Rick Edmonds
Six months into 2010, this is shaping up to be a better year for newspapers. One might be cheered simply by the pace and scope of experimentation in 2010. But is the industry is readers and advertisers a clear signal of what newspapers are changing into?

Should the Government Bail Out Journalism?

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:45:46 -0400

Full article: The Atlantic
Derek Thompson
Newspapers might not be essential for democracy, but some form of journalism certainly is. And journalism, as you might have heard, is struggling. Local and loyal newspaper readers have scattered across the Internet. Their attention spans have scattered, too, and ad revenue has dwindled. Is it time for another bailout?

Citizen Journalism Not Making Up for Loss of Local Newspapers

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:22:43 -0400

Full article: Ars Technica
John Timmer
Traditional newspapers have undergone a period of contraction, with many papers shutting down entirely. At the same time, the growth of the Internet and increasing availability of tools for content production has fueled hopes that citizen journalism might pick up some of the slack. But a new survey of citizen journalism sites suggests that we're a long way from replacing what has been lost.