Do newspaper feature articles lose focus as a result being in-depth? While online reporting tends to be to the point and reasonably succinct, are the traditionally longer newspaper articles turning off readers?
One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles [...]

A Toronto Star editor takes the red pen to a memo from management announcing the mass sacking of the newspaper’s editorial staff.
It begs the question, how does the paper hope to manage without them?

A graphic depicting the decline – for the most part – in the readership of US newspapers since the 1990s. The Wall Street Journal makes for a very notable exception however, though its circulation numbers now include online subscribers.

A four step recipe newspapers may be able to use to reinvent themselves, which includes utilising the services of an array of bloggers – as freelance writers – to provide content and opinion.
Find the best bloggers in the city, court them and recruit them into a partnership. Create a full view of [...]

The Australian Newspaper Plan is an ambitious (to put it mildly) project to locate and preserve as many Australian published newspapers as possible, and eventually incorporate them into a consolidated searchable online database:
“Newspapers were not inaccessible before but often you would have to travel from state to state for newspapers from capital city or rural [...]

Thomas Baekdal traces the history of information sharing and looks at how we might be communicating in the next five to ten years. If you think a lot has changed in the last twenty years, you ain’t seen nothing yet…
If you wanted to get the latest news, or tell people about your product, you [...]

It occurred to me while reading this article about printing a newspaper – a campus newspaper in this instance – before the computer era, was the total absence of the “copy and paste” facility… surely the most under appreciated function computing has given us.
As a first step in producing the Daily Titan, an editor (Gail [...]

Polish architect turned designer Jacek Utko talks about how he revived the fortunes of a number of flagging east European newspapers by significantly altering their design and layout.
Are there lessons to be learned by western newspapers from his work?

The Media Misery Index: a summary of US newspaper circulation, revenue, and staff numbers and figures from about the last ten years.
If you doubted the landscape was changing this will certainly put you in the picture.

…and our ever decreasing attention spans, appetite for “news snacks”, and growing disinterest for in-depth news commentary, writes Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson.
There’s an oversupply of news- “ish” information on the web, and people have decided – usually without realizing it – that free “news snacking” is a better value proposition than paying for in-depth reporting. [...]