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Requiem for newspapers masks opportunities

Commentary: Threat to great names will spur faster innovation

By David Callaway, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- An earnest young man just out of college called me this week to ask, in all sincerity, how to get a job as a writer these days.

I suggested that Timothy Geithner badly needs a speechwriter. But aside from joining the Treasury Department to make his fortune skimming bailout money, it might perhaps be better to slip back into the campus ratskeller for another year or two.

 

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Community newspapers announce third quarter financial results

Encouraging trends further differentiate the community segment from the metro dailies

Community newspapers continue to experience only a slight downturn in advertising revenues, contrary to industry-wide reported trends, according to third quarter 2008 financial data collected by the trade associations

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Newspaper Execs Launch Group to 'Fight Back'

...They’ve created a Web site – www.newspaperproject.org – that will feature stories and commentary about the value of newspapers, and share tips on how they can cope with the tough times.

Monday, the group will launch a series of print and online ads telling, among other facts, the story of how American newspapers and their Web sites daily reach 100 million people, more than watched Sunday’s Super Bowl.

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