The year is only two weeks old, but it is already carnage out there in the US newspaper industry as two more papers face closure and Gannett takes unheard of steps to ward off more job cuts. It beggars belief that so much bad news could come in a week, but the industry has managed it without any difficulty...
Exchange & Mart had a very small print circulation with barely 20,000 and falling, but its closure in print and move to online only publication is a story that is set to be repeated over and over this year. Quite how much is anyone's guess. With its position as a classified title the closure...
It happened recently in the US, but could it happen here? Roy Greenslade writes today about his kill or cure plan for the Independent -- kill off the print version and carry on as a digital paper. As the Independent prepares for a round of 90 editorial job cuts he argues in his Evening Standard column...
PaidContent is reporting that Ziff Davis is the latest in a line of publishers to close a magazine, in this case PCMag, and go online only. It's an accelerating trend. The site says that Ziff Davis, which recently came out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will focus on growing PCMag's online network...
Rupert Murdoch has been putting the doomsayers of the newspaper industry in their place. The future he says is still bright, but it is in case you were in any doubt by now definitely online. In a speech he has knocked the doomsayers who are predicting the internet will kill off newspapers. He calls them...
