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Production has ended after more than 110 years at a Maine paper mill. The Sun Journal newspaper of Lewiston reports that Wausau Paper's Otis Mill in Jay wound up its [...]

The City Paper of Nashville, Tenn., plans to cut back distribution of its print edition and rely primarily on its electronic version in an effort to address reader habits, production [...]

The business managers of the Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal have decided to merge the two newspapers, creating anxiety as well as excitement in the newsrooms. About 200 full-time employees will be laid off during the merger, and management and editorial boards will be reduced. In addition, many jobs will be reassigned and titles will be changed. Senior management is excited about the chance to create a new paper, and marketers believe that advertisers will be happy with the new format and rates., Journal and Sentinel merger means less people, bigger news hole, more sports, more family coverage, lots of digest and indexes BACK IN THE days when Time magazine used to apotheosize [...]

Canada is promising its pulp and paper industry a package of C$1 billion (US$881.8 million) to help mills that believe they have been put at a competitive disadvantage by a [...]

Excessive supply and weak demand will continue to hammer the paper and forest products industry worldwide -- but the outlook for North American suppliers is brightening, Moody's Investors Service concludes [...]

Companies pay newspapers to haul away their waste paper. At least one recycled newsprint producer pays a premium to newspapers that do nothing to their waste paper other than load [...]

When buying newsprint, it's good to be small -- but not too small. Dailies around 25,000 circulation paid an average of $570.09 a metric ton from 1990 through 1999, an [...]

PARTNERS IN ASIA will be WORLD'S BIGGEST NEWSPRINT MAKERS In separate transactions now under way, a Scandinavian forest products firm's expansion in the Asia-Pacific and North American markets will put [...]

Perhaps nowhere at newspapers are issues of cost and conservation more obvious than the paper store, where coincident economic and environmental concerns also may offer a fresh look at a [...]

VANCOUVER-BASED Macmillan-Bloedel reached a definitive agreement to sell its MB Paper Ltd. subsidiary for $850 million, Canadian, (U.S. $593.6 million) to an investment group led by Goepel McDermid Inc., also [...]

Debuting on PBS stations tonight as part of the award-winning Independent Lens series is 'The Paper,' which deeply probes a year in the life of the Daily Collegian at Penn [...]

Slowly but surely the economy is recovering, while papermakers have been curtailing their supplies. With murmurs of an increase in paper prices coming as early as Feb. 1, the question [...]

PennySaverUSA.com, the Web site of the shopper publications of Harte-Hanks, is partnering with Community Papers of Michigan (CPM), the Minnesota Free Paper Association (MFPA), and Wisconsin Community Papers (WCP) for [...]

Purdue University's Purdue Exponent, a campus newspaper serving the University's Lafayette Ind. campus and Iowa State Daily, a campus paper from Iowa State University are competing against local newspapers for market share. Journal and Courier of Indiana launched Campus Weekly to target students on Purdue's campus. The paper failed because of increase in newsprint and students preferred the Exponent. The Daily Tribune of Iowa has launched several weeklies targeting students at the university. So far, the Daily Tribune seems to have the upper hand over the the Iowa State Daily., As Knight-Ridder's Centre Daily Times begins its fight against the Daily Collegian over Penn State University's student market and readers, both papers can take comfort--and caution--from the history of similar [...]

The Gannett Blog (not affiliated with the company) has updated its list of announced cuts at all of the chain's 87 papers, with one-third still not announced. Here is the [...]

The big metro papers usually get blamed for the overall plunge in circulation. But a new analysis from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show that the circulation of smaller papers [...]

Abitibi-Consolidated announced last week that it has extended its Paper Retriever recycling program in the Midwest, recovering more paper for North America's largest newsprint maker 'while supporting local schools, churches [...]

The Iowa State Daily and the Daily Tribune, which are newspapers published in Ames, IA, are staging a fierce battle to gain the Iowa State University of Science and Technology readership market. Both newspapers have launched free weekly newspapers. The Iowa State Daily, a student-run newspaper, has been worried about the Daily Tribune's decision to enter the university market. The Daily Tribune, a local paper, believes that the Iowa State Daily's decision to hire a professional editor would threaten their plans., FOR DECADES IN Ames, Iowa, the local paper, the Daily Tribune, and Iowa State University's student newspaper, the Iowa State Daily, lived in peaceful coexistence. Now, however, things are definitely [...]

Newspapers plan to cope with growing costs by reducing web width, but several options could achieve comparable savings. Several papers have already reduced the size of their newsprint rolls from 55 to 50 inches, but the costs of initial modifications to printing presses may be prohibitive for many publishers. Instead, newspapers could switch to lighter-weight paper and save almost as much as they would changing web width. Newspapers could also eliminate pages while retaining content through reducing type size. Newspapers which have increased web size to cut costs are also discussed., IN LIGHT OF current economic conditions.' This mantra of business in the 1990S reverberates nationwide as the demands of Wall Street investors dictate policy at companies from coast to coast. [...]

A daily in Spain's Catalunya region will launch an electronic version of the paper this summer using ProtecMedia's E-Paper solution. As readers flip through the electronic pages of the paper, [...]

THE NEW HYPERLOCAL AOL PROJECT Patch is adding more new Websites every day, with microsites set up to cover towns like Huntington, N.Y., and neighborhoods within cities, like Washington D.C.'s [...]

The article emphasizes Allen VanNoppen's initiative to combat the erosion of local news in Burke County/Morganton, NC, by launching The Paper, an all-local print and digital newspaper. With a focus on community engagement and a team of experienced journalists, The Paper aims to set a new standard for local newspapers, showcasing success amid the decline of corporate-owned publications.

As SSCC denies any plans to sell Smurfit's last U.S. newsprint mill Enron Corp. is acquiring a second newsprint mill, a Canadian operation owned by a Japanese papermaker. Meanwhile, the [...]

The Statesboro (Ga.) Herald is the latest daily paper to drop an edition, telling readers that it will no longer publish a Monday paper beginning in early January. 'Citing 'tough [...]

Attendees at the Newspaper Flexo Users Group (NFUG) Oct 1993 conference were encouraged by continued support for the industry as shown by new press orders and experimentation with better grades of paper. Since the London newspaper, Daily Mail, successfully used flexography to print on specially coated stock without a dryer, several other newspapers have begun similar trials. In other NFUG news, two past presidents, John Rodney and Samuel Jenkins, have departed the organization for unconfirmed reasons, leaving Charles Stroh as the new president., WITH THEIR INDUSTRY'S financial health returning as slowly as that of the economy in general and their professional group decapitated early this year, members of the Newspaper Flexo Users Group [...]

A Vermont newspaper claims that a local fire chief 'snatched' financial documents related to the fire department from one of its reporters and threatened to retaliate if the paper reported [...]

Birmingham (Ala.) News publisher Victor Hanson III, a fourth-generation publisher of the paper and a 32-year employee, plans to retire Dec. 1, the paper reported. 'There is no more rewarding [...]

Wednesday Journal/Chicago Journal LLC, publisher of a weekly recognized by E&P as one of the 2008 '10 That Do It Right,' has sold two of the weeklies it rescued from [...]

The University of Nebraska's newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan, has been criticized by the university's football team and its coach, Tom Osborne, for being unnecessarily critical of the team and its members. The newspaper has covered different stories about team members and their dealings with the law. One was accused of attacking a woman and another was convicted of reckless driving and killing a young girl. The newspaper staff has upheld its right to be critical, but other parties believe that the school paper should support its team., Former student editor says everyone in the state is raised to love University of Nebraska football; whe you don't, coach Tom Osborne wants to know why WHEN JEFF ZELENY was [...]

Following a March 1 price hike, privately held Kruger Inc., Montreal, and North America's No. 2 newsprint maker, Bowater Inc., Greenville, S.C., plan to curtail some newsprint production through the [...]

With the help of newsprint supplier Weyerhaeuser, SP Industries Inc., Hopkins, Mich., installed its NP-165 loose newsprint loader system late last year at The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., where [...]

Many members of Congress were quite concerned when the Washington Post ran a series of articles based on documents in which the late US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall discussed the inner-workings of the Court. Some legislators felt the papers should not have been released until all involved members of the court were gone. However, Marshall had stipulated that release of his papers after his death, according to the Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington. Previous revelations about the Supreme Court have not deterred other justices from donating their papers to research institutions., WHEN THE WASHINGTON Post ran a series of articles this spring based on the papers of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, it created quite a stir. The [...]

56th annual promotion contest draws entries from 225 papers S.F., Fort Worth, Seattle papers win |bests' Twelve countries were represented in the over 1,700 entries received from 225 newspapers for [...]

With publishers turning their own screws on compliance, many are going straight to the source. Nearly a dozen auditors who once worked for ABC jumped sides to newspapers in the [...]

The American Forest and Paper Association announced that recycling capacity has grown beyond expectations, despite below-average industry growth overall. With more paper in the US now headed for reuse rather than landfills, recycled paper is now responsible for one-third of total fiber use. The number is expected to double by the year 2000., Two years ahead of schedule, industry looks to recover half of all paper by 2000; newsprint capacity diminishes, recycling grows WHILE GROWTH IN papermaking capacity remained below historic norms, the [...]

The Chicago Sun-Times has announced the launch of an electronic edition of its flagship paper. The Sun-Times 'e-paper,' as it is called, will be a digital replica of the print [...]

The Audit Bureau of Circulations' (ABC) FAS-FAX report documented a continued decline in circulation of the country's largest newspapers. 'USA Today' is a remarkable exception, with an increase of over 111,000 in daily sales and a separate Friday count that is larger than any US Sunday paper. The New York 'Daily News' gained back circulation lost during a 1990-1991 strike but was exempted from the ABC audit. Statistics from various metropolitan markets demonstrate that newspaper shut-downs or mergers cause many subscribers to drop out of daily reading rather than switch to another paper., Daily newspaper sales are continuing to fall across the country, according to the latest FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Almost no region or city was immune to [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DESPITE CIRCULATION DECLINES IN RECENT YEARS, purchasers are some of the most influential paper buyers in the world. Coupled with a strong environmental policy, this enormous purchasing power [...]

Color is helping small, suburban newspapers compete in Pittsburgh, PA. The North Hills News Record, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the North Hills News Record have all tried color in different ways. The Post-Gazette has invested about $20 million in KBA-Motter Inc's seven five-color, flexographic press and other press and prepress equipment. The newspapers are also encouraging advertisers to use color, which is more affordable when used on a regular basis., COLOR IS PLAYING an increasingly important role in the marketing of three dailies in Pittsburgh. While the papers differ in their ability to print color, executives at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [...]

Yesterday, the publisher of the Review Atlas in Monmouth, Ill., announced that the paper would no longer produce a Monday edition. The announcement was made Monday by Review Atlas Publisher [...]

L.A. Weekly landed the most finalists in the 13th annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) AltWeekly Awards, with nominations in eight categories. Tied for second are the Santa Fe Reporter [...]

The article reports that the local investors bought the paper from Digital First Media, owned by industry bugaboo Alden Global Capital under local control, benefitting from its geography in the Berkshires with its cultural traditions. Topics include arts and culture magazine, Berkshire Landscapes with the printing of the Brattleboro Reformer; and the focus remains on growing digital subscriptions with publishers consulting work in small and medium sized markets.

Montreal-based Transcontinental has announced implementation of a paper purchasing policy that promotes use of environmentally preferable papers through a classification process that allows clients to make an informed choice regarding [...]

Pacific Press of Vancouver, BC, is completely redesigning its newspaper plant, combining printing operations for the Vancouver Sun and the tabloid Province. The combined plant will use MAN Roland Colorman S offset units to print both papers. Pacific will be the first North American newspaper publisher to use 124 print couples in a single-line, 165-yard configuration. This arrangement cuts the number of units needed to print two papers., PRODUCTION PLANNING AT at Canada's Vancouver Sun and Province has taken unpredictable zigs and zags over five years before management decided to chuck halfway proposals and start from scratch. Pacific [...]

Incoming Pulitzer Board co-chair Mike Pride said he would like to see more small and medium-sized newspapers involved in the annual prizes, and said the board will be looking at [...]

Lower selling prices and a litigation settlement (see above) contributed to $88 million (Canadian) in second-quarter net losses on just under C$1 billion in net sales for Montreal-based Abitibi-Consolidated. Net [...]

The Globe and Mail has announced a procurement policy for newsprint and other papers that requires its suppliers to be environmentally responsible. 'The Globe's policy commits to practices that will [...]

Calvin Stovall, editor of the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y., says this weekend's coverage of the massive murder spree that left 14 people at a community center dead is [...]

Without admitting to violations, Blue Heron Paper Co., operator of the Oregon City, Ore., recycled-newsprint mill sold a year ago by Smurfit Newsprint, settled a Clean Water Act lawsuit brought [...]

In a move that was probably inevitable amid the ongoing wave of newspaper staff cuts, a subscriber to The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., is suing the paper -- [...]