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 How the Onion 
 Writes Headlines 

New book Our Front Pages explores the evolution

Nov 3, 09 1:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The Onion's writers have a backward way of generating stories: They come up with the headlines first. The staff devotes the first two days of each week to rejecting headlines like “Quick and Painless Overthrow of Taliban Enters Eighth Year” in favor of “US Continues Quagmire-Building Effort in... More »

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media • newspaper • satire • The Onion • headlines

 Newspaper Circulation Off 10% 

Decline one of the biggest ever

Oct 26, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Daily newspaper circulation has taken a massive 10.6% drop over the past six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said today, while Sunday circulation fell 7.4%. The drop, one of the worst ever, is a potent sign of the industry’s decline, Editor & Publisher reports. Things... More »

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media • newspaper • USA Today • circulation • newspaper industry • newspaper circulation

 Newsday Jumps Behind 
 a Paywall 

Opts for 'hyper-local' approach

Oct 22, 09 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you’ve been reading a ton of Newsday stories online, we’ve got some bad news: the Long Island daily plans to erect a paywall next week. The paper’s online content will now be closed to everyone except print subscribers, Optimum Online customers, and anyone willing to... More »

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newspaper • Long Island • Newsday • paywall

 Lone AP Reporter 
 Logs 300 Executions 

Writer has seen more deaths than...anyone, perhaps

Oct 21, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The fever pitch of executions in Texas since the 1980s has made the taking of a life at Huntsville’s prison almost de rigueur. Newsrooms that used to send a reporter every time an inmate was put to death now rely on the AP—and one AP writer in particular:... More »

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death penalty • newspaper • Texas • execution • reporter • Associated Press • witness

Guardian Axes American Website After 2 Years

Hit by losses, media company discontinues Guardian America

Oct 21, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guardian News and Media, which lost $60.3 million last year, is shutting its US-centered website Guardian America after two years. The site will now redirect to the Guardian newspaper's American coverage. Guardian America's head will instead focus on international expansion for guardian.co.uk. "We took it down... More »

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newspaper • online news • Guardian America • newspaper industry • Guardian Media Group • Guardian

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 Some UK Tabloid Stories 
 Are Fake: Documentary 

Starsuckers exposes tabloids' habit of publishing fabricated gossip

Oct 15, 09 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The upcoming British documentary Starsuckers proves what we’ve always suspected: Tabloids—at least, UK tabloids—will print just about anything, including “complete and utter babble,” the director tells the Guardian. Among the fake stories he got published—and, often, reprinted around the world: Avril Lavigne passed... More »

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entertainment • media • newspaper • tabloids • celebrity • gossip • documentary • Amy Winehouse • Avril Lavigne • Guy Ritchie • British tabloids • Starsuckers

Onion Peels Into Greeting Card Business

Yesterday's fake headlines become today's salutations

Oct 6, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Real newspapers take note: The Onion has found a way to squeeze some money out of its back issues. A new line of greeting cards based on its parody articles has hit Target, giving Americans the perfect way to convey sentiments like "Search for Self Called Off After 38... More »

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newspaper • parody • publishing • The Onion • greetings cards

 Help Wanted: Pot Critic 

As pot grows semi-legal, connoisseurs wanted

Oct 5, 09 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the midst of media layoffs, one Colorado newspaper is actually hiring: It’s looking for a pot critic. The number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver has exploded to more than 100 this year, and the alt-weekly Westword wants someone with a legit medical need to evaluate which are... More »

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newspaper • Denver • medical marijuana • marijuana • marijuana legalization • critic

Iconic London Paper Goes
Free After 182 Years

Owners eliminate cover price as Evening Standard hemorrhages cash

Oct 2, 09 4:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Evening Standard, London's 182-year-old afternoon newspaper, will become a freesheet later this month in an attempt to pump up the struggling title's circulation. The Standard, purchased by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev last year for the fire-sale price of one pound, loses $16 million a year and may fire staff... More »

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newspaper • London • free • British media • newspaper industry • Alexander Lebedev • Evening Standard

(Newser) - Gordon Brown is livid and his colleagues in the Labour Party are ripping up copies of the Sun in public after Rupert Murdoch ended 12 years of support and backed Conservative David Cameron this week. “We don't need an Australian-American coming to our country with a paper that has... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • The Sun • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • England • Labour Party • David Cameron • prime minister • political endorsement • Sky News

 Newspaper Heiress' Body 
 Washes Ashore 

Descendant of Detroit News founder committed suicide

Sep 28, 09 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The body of Anne Morrell Petrillo was pulled from the Hudson River yesterday, three days after the newspaper heiress jumped off the same bridge where her stepfather leapt to his death more than a decade earlier. Petrillo, 38, was descended on her mother’s side from Detroit News founder... More »

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suicide • newspaper • New York • Detroit • heiress • Hudson River • The Detroit News • Anne Morrell Petrillo

 Paper Sorry for 
 Calling Palin 
 a 'Broad' 

Alaska newspaper editor admits it was a pun, not a typo

Sep 25, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alaska’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has apologized for Wednesday’s front-page headline about Sarah Palin. Above a small picture of the ex-governor, who had spoken at a Hong Kong investors conference, the paper ran the headline, “A Broad in Asia.” The paper’s managing editor says it... More »

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media • newspaper • Alaska • apology • Sarah Palin

OPINION

 Ivy League Crimes 
 Are More Equal 
 Than Others 

To grab headlines, commit or fall victim to murder at Harvard or Yale

Sep 18, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The killing of Yale grad student Annie Le dominated headlines around the world, "but every murder is uniquely dramatic," Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Why this one? It involves a magic word. "Three murders at a Midwestern college equal one murder at Harvard or Yale," Shafer... More »

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media • newspaper • New York Times • Yale University • Ivy League • crime • murder • homicide • tabloids • media coverage • Oklahoma State University • Harvard University • Annie Le • Raymond Clark • Nancy Grace

(Newser) - An editor of a Catholic newspaper criticized for a gay affair in a publication owned by the brother of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is out of a job, reports the New York Times. He resigned just days after he slammed the randy head of state in an editorial for... More »

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newspaper • Italy • Rome • Vatican • Catholic • Silvio Berlusconi • homosexual • gay • Il Giornale

Berlusconi Slaps European Papers With Libel Suits

Lawyers probe 'cases of real, true defamation'

Aug 28, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi is suing Italian and foreign media outlets for libel regarding his personal life, Reuters reports. “We have instructed our colleagues to evaluate, according to the laws in their countries, the most serious cases of real, true defamation,” said the Italian PM's lawyer. Berlusconi’s legal team... More »

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media • newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Europe • Italy • libel • lawsuit • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • News Corp • La Repubblica • Times of London

(Newser) - Newspapers are doomed, and if they’re looking for someone to blame, they should start with themselves, writes Bill Wyman for Splice in the second part of his industry critique. The "garrulous" Luddites working at newspapers—from managers to reporters—never considered the implications of technology. “They were... More »

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newspaper • newspaper industry • aggregator

(Newser) - In the avalanche of reporting and commentary on the collapse of the newspaper business, a number of salient, none-too-flattering facts have been overlooked about how newspapers contributed to their own demise, Bill Wyman writes on Splice. First, there's the misunderstanding that readers pay for news. It's advertisers who pay, and... More »

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newspaper • advertising • newspaper industry • aggregator

OPINION

Newspapers: Forget Paywalls, Take Content Live 

Only 'experiences,' not content, can save the news: Jenkins

Aug 11, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Suddenly every newspaper is talking about a Journal-style online paywall or a "freemium" subscription model, but Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins is resigned that "stunned and traumatized" papers are on their way out. Instead of paywalls, Papers should learn from the battered music industry, which has used "... More »

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newspaper • branding • long tail • newspaper industry • paywall • Guardian Media Group • Guardian

OPINION

 Rather: Prez 
 Must Save 
 Newspapers 



Corporate interests, internet advertising crippling industry

Aug 9, 09 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The media's troubles mean that "this country is in trouble," writes Dan Rather, and no academic study or think-tank report is going to save the industry. We need no less than a “nonpartisan, blue-ribbon” presidential commission “to address the perilous state of America’s news media,... More »

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media • Internet • newspaper • Dan Rather • online news • President Obama • newspaper industry • committee

Newspaper Ad Forecast: 'Long Way From Extinction'

Print publications will serve 'distilled' upper-crust audience, analysts predict

Aug 7, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - For the newspaper industry, finally a bit of good news: Ad revenue is projected to end its long slide and actually increase 2.4% in 2010, says a forecast from Borrell Associates. Modest year-by-year increases are expected to continue through at least 2014, reports Advertising Age. Borrell’s analysis does... More »

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newspaper • advertising • print industry • ad revenue • print advertising • readership

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