On The Record - Newspaper Industry News

Do Some Good: Create Newspaper Ads

by Mike Hughes

It's time the advertising industry did something important.

For our own self-interest -- and for the common good -- we need to start paying attention to newspapers again.

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U.S. law chief open to antitrust aid for newspapers

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday preserving a healthy newspaper industry was important and he was open to adjusting antitrust policy if it could help.

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The Online Experiments That Could Help Newspapers

A venture by The Bakersfield Californian is one of many ways newspapers are trying to generate new revenue

By Olga Kharif

The Bakersfield Californian is an anomaly in the newspaper business. While other papers are shutting their doors and filing for bankruptcy, it's expanding...

 

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Community newspapers report 4th quarter results, continue to outperform industry

Community newspapers were impacted by the challenging economy but in a much smaller way than the industry in general, according to fourth quarter 2008 financial data collected by the trade associations Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) and National Newspaper Association (NNA). The SNA/NNA fourth quarter financial reporting group reports total advertising revenue at $428.7 million, a 6.6 percent decline from the same quarter in 2007. As a point of comparison, Glennco Consulting Group estimates an overall industry decline in fourth quarter advertising expenditures of 21 percent and many large companies have reported declines in excess of 20 percent.

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