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Three G. It's a phrase as snappy as the newspaper it describes. Born to derision in 1982, USA Today saucily called itself 'The Nation's Newspaper' and shocked journalists with its [...]

Mike Klingensmith is selling the news in Minneapolis' Star Tribune, and people are buying it. In the last 18 months, the Star Tribune's publisher raised the prices of subscriptions and [...]

Things have changed on platform 1 at Cambridge, just as they have at myriad other train stations around Britain. Gone is the trademark bowler hat of the British businessman, along [...]

When it comes to competing for Pulitzer Prizes, Earl Maucker likes to compare his team to base-ball's Florida Marlins in 2003 as they took on the powerful New York Yankees [...]

From his old-timer's perch after three years in newspaper design, 27-year-old Luke Trautwein barely hesitates when asked if he would advise young people to join today's newspapers. 'No,' he says [...]

In late November, Indianapolis Star Editor Dennis Ryerson gathered his entire newsroom staff in the 500-seat auditorium of the Indiana War Memorial building. The main purpose of the meeting was […]

Four years ago William Dean Singleton, hard-charging owner of the nation's seventh-largest newspaper company, MediaNews Group, talked to a trade publication about hard-charging journalism--about how it's not good for business. [...]

Sometimes they snake across the bottom of the page as relatively unobtrusive six-column strips. Sometimes they catch the eye more forcefully as right-corner boxes. And sometimes they scream for attention [...]

How bad are things in the newspaper business? So bad that it's newsworthy when a newspaper isn't cutting its staff, chopping its newshole or taking some other action that requires [...]

'It is as if we are expecting the next explosion to happen, the next anthrax-tainted envelope to be mailed and we are aware it can happen in Shreveport just as [...]

Brian P. Tierney, the head of an investors group that in June purchased the whipsawed Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, understands the importance of image. When I meet him [...]

Design experts have revolutionized the look of America's newspapers. Color photographs, informational graphics, digest and teasers dominate front pages everywhere. But is the result too much homogeneity and too little […]

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, the Asbury Park Press launched a compelling series titled 'Profiting from Public Service: How Many N.J. Legislators Exploit the System.' For eight days, the newspaper [...]

Diane Barney, editor of the Vacaville Reporter, has to be the most optimistic person in American journalism. Her glass is never half-empty. Forget challenges. Focus on opportunities. Bring on the [...]

It's only 9 a.m. and today's Houston Chronicle has barely hit people's doorsteps, but Sylvia Wood, the Chronicle's online local news editor, already is working a breaking, and heartbreaking, story. […]

Michael Vigh knew what would happen the moment he and his reporting partner and alter ego, Kevin Cantera, cashed their $10,000 checks from the National Enquirer. 'When we made our [...]

Madonna performed on June 3 in Abu Dhabi More than 20,000 fans had gathered at an outdoor arena. It was nighttime, but Abu Dhabi in June is brutally hot even [...]

Nearly 1,000 bundled Ann Arborites lined the city's downtown sidewalks during a snowstorm in February 1985, waiting to enter a three-story Art Deco office building on East Huron Street. The [...]

When Tim Giago started the Lakota Times on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1981, he didn't expect to be starting up almost the exact same newspaper again […]

AS FAR AS SOME JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA CRITICS ARE CONCERNED, IT'S PEOPLE LIKE Mario J. Gabelli who are calling all the shots these days. Gabelli is the tough-talking, up-from-the-Bronx Wall [...]

Pull out your guns and run for cover--there's a good old-fashioned, this-town-ain't-big-enough-for-the-both-of-us showdown going on in the Wild West--western Nebraska, that is. Sidney, a ranching and farming community of 6,000, [...]

Residents of Berlin, New Hampshire, started suspecting something was awry when the president of one of their two daily newspapers began showing up at town meetings and events, notebook in [...]

Elis F. Stenman read three newspapers a day, but nobody in his family used even one of them to line a birdcage. 'They never had a bird,' says Edna Beaudoin, [...]

Plummeting newsprint prices mean healthy bottom lines. Newspapers this year are enjoying the best of all possible worlds for making profits--reasonably strong advertising performance and rapidly falling newsprint prices. This […]

As the technology guru of one mid-sized daily explains, computer-assisted reporting isn't just for the major metros. Dwight Morris is one of America's better journalists and a heck of a […]

When the New York Times won seven Pulitzer Prizes this year, leaving the previous record of three in the dust, and only five other papers--including three powerhouses--took home the rest [...]

Tracie Cone and Anna Marie dos Remedios knew there'd be plenty of unknowns when they jumped from working for a major metropolitan newspaper to owning a Hollister, California, weekly in [...]

Contrary to the trend in the business, Portland, Oregon, is about to become a two-newspaper town. Come February, the free Portland Tribune will take on the Oregonian twice a week [...]

National and mom-and-pop businesses find reasons to advertise on the Web. Newspapers have always made their money by selling advertising and copies of their papers. Several factors influence success, including [...]

Omaha World-Herald reporter Steve Jordon has spent much of his time over the past 45 years tracking the maneuvers and machinations of just one man: investor nonpareil Warren Buffett, CEO [...]

On his second day as editor of USA Today, Ken Paulson walked around his desk and dragged a chair over to face a visitor, setting the scene for a cozy [...]

It's an important and much-discussed question: As traditional news organizations cut back dramatically, how can the watchdog journalism that is crucial in a democracy be preserved? Lorie Hearn has come [...]

Paper Losses: A Modern Epic of Greed & Betrayal at America's Two Largest Newspaper Companies By Bryan Gruley Grove Press 448 pages; $23 Imagine you're an Olympic finalist, primed for [...]

These days, newspaper staffs are shrinking and two-paper towns are becoming one-paper towns. Someone should explain that to Brian Brown, who last November in Nashville launched the City Paper, a [...]

The Cincinnati Enquirer has been around for 152 years, but its image has changed dramatically in the past 18 months. It's not just the paper's sparkling new offices, or its […]

JOAs are DOA in Evansville, Chattanooga and other markets Newspaper joint operating agencies continue to disappear, with the one in Evansville, Indiana, folding at the end of 1998 and Chattanooga's [...]

The Salt Lake Observer strutted onto the media scene in Utah's largest city in June with in-your-face caricatures and a sassy spin on news events. Ever since, the city's established [...]

When USA Today staffers move into the new Gannett headquarters this fall, they will be farther away from Washington, D.C., but the digs are something else. Could we possibly start [...]

In an age when even large newspapers are shrinking their pages and newsholes and laying off reporters, you don't expect to hear about a chain of small dailies spending serious [...]

'You have to have a hell of a good reason not to publish the truth.' --former Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee 'The press, as a whole, misses too many [...]

'Both of us?' I suputtered. It was all I could say when the publisher of the Missoulian, the daily newspaper in Missoula, Montana, quietly told my husband and me that [...]

You don't get something for nothing. Free legal advice is worth what you pay for A. And a free newspaper is a throwaway. Like most old saws, these contain elements [...]

Warren Buffett, the sage of Omaha, has always said that the key to the financial success of a daily newspaper is to give readers more rather than less. The Newhouse [...]

After the New York Times killed two sports columns that alluded to the paper's editorial stance on whether Augusta National Golf Club, host of the Masters tournament, should admit women, [...]

AJR columnist John Morton missed the mark by referring to the small daily newspaper market as less vulnerable to failure than the metro dailies (The Newspaper Business, June/July). Take a [...]

When the bitter strike against the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News began last July, some employees and union officials suggested that the joint-operating agency that publishes both papers […]

Readers of the five-part, front-page serial of Bob Woodward's book, 'Plan of Attack,' wondered to Washington Post Ombudsman Michael Getler if they had been shortchanged on the news for the [...]

John Morton's February/March column, 'The Newspaper Business,' about newspapers 'once again' turning to niche publishing made me smile--once again. Lately it's the Spanish-language niche for which many dailies are creating [...]

In his column 'Investing in Quality' in your Winter 2011 issue, John Morton asserts that the New York Times Co. has outperformed its competitors while making minimal staff cuts. Unfortunately, [...]

Some sheriff's deputies in St. Mary's County, Maryland, were as steamed as the region's famous blue crabs. The November 1998 election was approaching. Their favored candidates, incumbent Sheriff Richard Voorhaar [...]