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Approximately 150 North American newspapers have converted or are converting to narrower, 50-inch newsprint rolls, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), which continues to survey members for conversion [...]

Supermarket tabloid Star Magazine broke the news of presidential aide Dick Morris's affair with a call-girl, but only the New York Post immediately picked up the story. Most mainstream dailies either ignored or buried it. The story detailed political adviser Morris's year-long association with Sherrie Rowlands, the prostitute who volunteered her story to the Star and became a paid source. Paying sources and other tabloid-like practices have become more common occurrences for the mainstream press, whose credibility as 'ethical gatekeepers' has been significantly undermined., A SUPERMARKET TABLOID drops the story of a political scandal--replete with kinky sex and White house confidentiality violations--gift-wrapped, with pictures, on your newspaper's doorstep the day before the president kicks [...]

Computer-assisted research at newspapers became an important aspect of reporting in 1991. Computer databases are an important tool for reporters in 1995. The investment by newspapers in online database usage is uneven. There are some newspapers that utilize databases heavily and others that use databases sparingly. Databases are important information sources for reporters who know how to use them., A REVOLUTION OCCURRED in the newsroom of the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer because of a train crash, according to executive editor Frank Daniels III. The newspaper had assembled a [...]

Newspaper brawl in New York City Within a week after Maxwell takes over the Daily News, the city's papers are using their news columns to snipe at one another Within [...]

An speech at Kean College by Nation of Islam official Khalid Abdul Muhammad led to widespread scrutiny of the campus newspaper, the Independent. Muhammad's address led to a national controversy when the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith published some of his statements against Jews, the pope and South African whites. The Independent published Jewish protests against Muhammad but did not publish his comments. Several faculty members suggested student journalists had been coerced by faculty not to publish Muhammad's words., LEAH KARNATSKI TOOK a flier from a small group of Jewish faculty and students stationed outside Wilkins Auditorium at Kean College in Union, N.J. The protest was targeting a speech [...]

Swiss pressmaker Wifag's heatset offset press can be used to produce high-quality color photographs and advertisements in newspapers. Four-color photos are printed on newsprint rolls, rewound, then sent to the newspaper where text and black and white art are printed. The insetting process can produce magazine-quality color, but requires a substantial capital investment., With a press expansion in the offing in England, a Swiss pressmaker is probing U.S. newspapers' interest in producing the high-quality work that commercial insert printers used to lure away [...]

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 [...]

[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 [...]

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 [...]

Uttaim Jain complained that University of Iowa officials did not inform him that his son, Sanjay, attempted to commit suicide twice in late Nov 1994, before he was successful on Dec 4, 1994. Jain believes the campus newspaper, 'The Daily Iowan', should also have disclosed the suicide attempts, so that other individuals on campus would have kept an eye on Sanjay. Readers of the campus newspaper were critical of the reports of Sanjay Jain's and two other students' subsequent suicides, all in the same dormitory, between Dec 4, 1994 and Jan 15, 1995., Father of victim says college officials never told him about son's two previous tries; contends those incidents should have been reported to the school paper THE FATHER OF an 18-year-old [...]

The article focuses on the paper waste management within newspaper publishing industry. Topics discussed include reduction of wastes produced by the printers; impact of waste conservation on the creating business revenues; and impact of equipments such as plates, paper grain and color complexity on printed wastes by the press.

Editors of the University of California's campus newspaper, the Daily Trojan, were criticized for their decision to downplay the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The paper offered no coverage of the event, and it included only a short article about Simpson's acquital. The noncoverage decision was not supported by the writers and editors of the newspaper's sports department; they believed that the paper was abandoning its responsibility to provide news coverage. Former newspaper editors and writers were also critical of the newspaper's editorial decision., THE UNIVERSITY OF Southern California campus is a short car ride from the courthouse where its most famous alumnus, O.J. Simpson, was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend. [...]

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 [...]

Most Florida newspapers managed to conduct business as usual as Hurricane Erin hit on Aug 2, 1995. The hurricane only reached Category 1, compared to the Category 4 Hurricane Andrew that did so much damage in 1992. The papers had prepared for a worst case scenario, changing press times and sending workers home early. Several papers suffered power outages and one paper experienced flooding when a sign blew down and punctured the roof of its building., THOROUGHLY PREPARED FOR a much harsher hurricane, Florida's newspapers suffered no significant disruptions when Erin made landfall early in morning of Aug. 2. Even at the very center of the [...]

The Kennesaw State College newspaper, 'The Sentinel', did not print an anti-Holocaust advertisement sent to this college and many universities in the US by Visalia, CA-based Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust Dir Bradley R. Smith. The newspaper sent the ad and its payment back to Smith. Kennesaw Student Publications Coordinator Ed J. Bonza had considered placing the ad in the newspaper but decided against it and decided not to print any information about the ad., 'SHE'S IN, SHE'S out.' That terse headline on the front page of the Sentinel informed its Kennesaw State College readership that Christina Jeffrey, Ph.D. had been fired as historian of [...]

In the past two weeks, the newspaper industry has seen a wave of job cut announcements -- and promises by numerous publishers and editors that their papers will soon 'reinvent' [...]

David Fortier left his post as editor of the Catholic Transcript, rather than submit to review by the Catholic hierarchy. He now publishes American Catholic Northeast, as an independent monthly. Many journalists on Catholic papers experience similar difficulties. A survey by the Catholic Press Assn revealed that the average age of Catholic press readers was 61.6%, 21 years more than the general population of newspaper readers. Another survey showed that 40% of Catholic press journalists had experienced censorship. A white paper, 'Freedom and Responsibility in the Catholic Press,' discussed church policy on the role of the press., LESS THAN TWO years ago, David Fortier was editor of the Catholic Transcript, a weekly newspaper in Hartford. Now he works out of his home, editing the fledgling American Catholic [...]

Newspapers are expanding their marketing efforts to appeal to broader geographic areas. Since the Minneapolis Star Tribune became the Star Tribune, Newspaper for the Twin Cities, other newspapers have seen the benefits of adding broader geographic identifiers that appeal to more people. The Sun Sentinel added South Florida to its name in order to appeal to the areas near its Fort Lauderdale base. The former Herald-News in Passaic, NJ is now the North Jersey Herald & News, Star Tribune's Twin Cities strategy still sparkles, as papers expand geographic identities About a year ago, the Sun-Sentinel quietly added the identifier South Florida to its flag. 'We haven't changed [...]

The New York Times, preparatory to installing Goss Colorliner presses at its Edison, NJ, plant, formed a task force in conjunction with newsprint supplier Abitibi-Price to determine the most suitable paper specifications for the new presses. Since February, all Times papers have been printed in conformity with the new specifications. The brightness of the newsprint used was raised from 58 to 58.5; its moisture content, from 8% to 8.5%. It has high opacity and uniform reeling qualities., BEFORE PRINTING BEGAN at its Edison, N.J., production and distribution plant, the New York Times looked at the newsprint that would one day carry its first color offset pages. It [...]

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 [...]

Brooklyn Eagle Ltd. and Eagle Inc. are involved in a lawsuit over the rights to the Brooklyn Eagle trademark. Brooklyn Eagle Ltd. owner Ed Weintrob claims that Eagle Inc. owner Dozier Hasty violated the trademark when he began publishing the Daily Eagle 'on or about' Aug 23, 1996. Hasty could challenge Weintrob's application for the trademark by proving he began using the name first., IN BROOKLYN'S HEYDAY, the Brooklyn Eagle was the voice of the New York City borough and the nation's most read afternoon paper. But it folded in 1955 due to union [...]

The American Forest and Paper Association has forecast a 5.8% growth rate for recovered paper products through 1997 based on planned consumption. Consumption of recovered paper will continue at a growth rate greater than underlying capacity. The paper industry plans to expand production capacity by 7.6 million tons in the period from 1994 to 1997. The only planned expansion of newsprint production capacity during this period will be for recycled product., As Richard Storat reported the U.S. papermaking industry's turn-around in 1994, he was reminded of its origins. With transaction prices rising fast for suppliers of newspapers' principal raw material, history [...]

A protracted political controversy between student government leaders and former staff members at the student newspapers temporarily shut down the daily at Queens College in metropolitan New York. The dispute originated when the opinion editor of the QC Quad ran for Student Association president without resigning his position on the paper. The editor lost the election, and the new SA president cut funding for the paper in favor of a new publication. The dispute was ultimately settled by a third party mediator., BRUNO NAVARRO, THE opinion editor of the Queens College campus newspaper, the QC Quad, decided during the spring 1991 semester to run for Student Association president. 'I thought it was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman is the latest paper that can be accessed on readers' iPhones, as The Statesman Co., the paper's parent company, announced Tuesday that the statesman.com iPhone application [...]

Metro International S.A., the big global publisher of free commuter dailies, reported on Monday a second-quarter operating loss of 3 million euros (US $4.27 million) on revenue that plunged 26%. [...]

The Valley Morning Star of Harlingen, Texas, will become the first Freedom Communications daily paper to charge for access to its Web site, the paper reported Monday. A Web story [...]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory physicist Joseph M. Jacobson heads a team of researchers that has developed a method of placing dynamic particle ink technology directly onto paper substrates. This innovation may eventually lead to consumer availability of single, reusable pieces of paper that can print and reprint images and text, using ink that is electronically planted within the paper itself. Jacobson suggests that consumer versions of the paper and printer could provide substantial cost savings over present technology., MASSACHUSETFS INSTITUTE OF Technology researchers take the notion of media convergence quite literally, working to communicate or publish text and image on paper without benefit of an external machine, be [...]

More and more small newspapers are entering partnerships where production is clustered at one facility. This arrangement boosts capacity and reduces costs. The medium-sized New Haven (CT) Register is representative of this kind of operation. The paper's double-wide presses run four weeklies, TV books and comics for other dailies, and the Register itself. The opportunities for clustering are many since most newspaper plants have extra press time., THE TERM PRESS capacity is gaining new meaning at many small newspapers across the country. It not only relates to how many pages a press can produce, but how many [...]

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 [...]

Metro International, the global free paper publisher, said Monday its same-paper sales fell by 8% in the third quarter, and that it does not expect to break even for the [...]

Two New York Times Co. papers in Florida are merging their newsroom operations. The Gainesville Sun and Ocala Star-Banner will share copy desks, design, layouts, and pagination, both papers announced [...]

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 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 [...]

At a time when many papers are cutting comics and comics space, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times is expanding its funnies lineup. The Texas paper announced yesterday that it's adding 11 [...]

THE GWINNETT DAILY Post of Georgia touts itself as 'the fastest growing newspaper in America,' with circulation jumping from 14,000 to 40,000 circulation in a year. But the vehicle for [...]

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 [...]

MTV has announced plans for a new series, titled 'The Paper,' which will film students working on their high school paper. The series is set at Cypress Bay High School [...]

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 [...]

Both Twin Cities daily papers covered last night's tragic bridge collapse with full force, throwing dozens of newsroom staffers at the story and expanding print space. Neither paper reported having [...]

Dan Rattiner, longtime publisher and editor of the famously quirky and successful free weekly, Dan's Papers, in the Hamptons on Long Island, will remain editor of the New York paper [...]

The number of papers participating the Audit Bureau of Circulations' (ABC) Insert Verification Service (IVS) rose to 66 with the recent additions of 11 papers, including six McClatchy Co. dailies. [...]

On a brief vacation in Manhattan this last long weekend, I hustled uptown with an old friend to the Museum of the City of New York for two ballyhooed exhibits: [...]

The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch published a four-page Extra edition late Monday on the tragic Virginia Tech. shootings, while The Roanoke Times, the closest daily to the crime site, offered 12 [...]

The Publisher of the Floresville Chronicle Journal in Texas, Jeff Jordan, bought the paper from Tom and Diana Brossart. Established in 1877, the weekly paper has a paid circulation of [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer is the latest daily paper to offer advertising space on the front page, the paper said in a statement today. 'The advertisements will run on the bottom [...]

The launching of the New York Blade News in the New York, NY, market has led to a battle for market share with the city's other gay newspaper, LGNY. The New York Blade News plans to report the news as fairly as possible to enable its readers to form their own opinions about important issues facing the gay community. However, LNGY charges that being a gay newspaper implies that advocacy journalism should be used. LNGY also charges that the Blade's ownership is not part of the gay community and would not be qualified to report on such issues., Another newspaper war has hit New York City, and while the players are smaller, this skirmish is shaping up to be every bit as fierce as the turf tussle the [...]

The campus police at Keene State College in New Hampshire initiate an investigation designed to determine the identity of the organizers of a rally in support of legalizing marijuana. Campus police allege that numerous illegal activities occurred during the rally, and police visited the off-campus home of members of the Equinox college newspaper during the course of the investigation. When campus police attempted to obtain the newspaper's film of the event, the Equinox threatened to sue and the police relented., Joel Kastner poked his head out of his second-story apartment at 210 Winchester Street and saw a couple of uniformed police officers at his door. 'I thought at first that [...]