"London Paper Tries to Decipher a Russian Owner" - NYTimes.com

"Newspaper Execs Launch Group to 'Fight Back'"

"Imagining Newspapers of the Future" - NYTimes.com

"Newspaper Companies to Make More Cutbacks" - NYTimes.com

"Is Community-Funded Journalism The Answer?" - NPR

I think getting people to pay more for news is a good idea but I am very uncomfortable with this approach; it threatens the independence and professionalism of journalism in my mind.

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Reflections of a Newsosaur: Strapped publishers skip NAA dues

"Le Figaro: Forging ahead but taking a different route, less integration and more print" - Editors Weblog

"Free Newspaper Venture Depends on Local Blogs" - NYTimes.com

There is one of these in France, too. It might work, but needs to anticipate fully what people are going to value when printed on a piece of paper.

"Could editorial outsourcing save newspapers?" - Editors Weblog

My answer to the question is no.

"Capital Gazette newspapers cuts 111 jobs" - Baltimore Business Journal

"Landmark newspapers give 5-day furloughs" - baltimoresun.com

"Cox newspapers in NC cutting 28 jobs to save costs" - ABC 13

We are going to see a lot more of this.

"Washington Post to End Book World as Stand-Alone Section" - NYTimes.com

Whether this was a good move or not depends on whether the Post has reoriented its thinking about books and attempted to insert itself in the new electronic link that most book readers now enjoy. Is there, for example, a stand alone - but fully linked behind the scenes - website/page on books with the Post's name on it? In my view, everything then flows from that. The only page I could find is not very compelling or especially useful. It needs to redone starting with the customer - the reader and maybe buyer of books who can be convinced that the Post has something to offer in pursuing that interest. That includes advice and purchasing or borrowing books.....and it all has to be done in the name of the Post in order to stick and succeed.

"The Death of News?" - Weekend America

"Worldwide, Employment on a Sharp Decline" - NYTimes.com

This is a very informative and chilling story about unemployment trends here and around the world in both the manufacturing and service sectors.Despite everything that has happened in web-based services, and specifically on the nytimes.com site, there is NOTHING here that in anyway helps a reader/customer who would like to see next month's (if that is when it comes) update of this chart. Why cannot the NYTimes offer either a link to the place where it will appear or at least promise to send me an e-mail if and when the Times chooses to publish an update on this story? Instead, the person reading this story in the paper and/or viewing it here comes up against a deadend. That, increasingly, seems to me to be incredibly short-sighted when it so relatively easily can be fixed with great value delivered to all in the process.

"Time Spent on Top News Sites in Decline"

The New York Times

I am happy to see The New York Times earning revenue from companies like Apple.

What I am not happy about are the Mac ads that seem to appear with some frequency on the home page of the NYT. they are space-hoggers, resource hoggers, and a very big irritation to me as a customer.

Surely, there has to be a better way for Apple to reach people who are using the NYT site.

"New Study Puts a Price on Major Newspaper Web Sites"

"Irish Times reports 6% drop in profits to €20.3m for 2007" - The Irish Emigrant