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The article profiles David Black, the owner and publisher of a chain of newspapers. Central to the article is the information that Black concentrates on the purchase and production of small, local newspapers, in place of large, urban, mass-circulation papers. Also emphasized is the fact that Black's organization is thriving at a time when other news outlets are experiencing financial turmoil.

The changes have been anything but conservative at Canada's unabashedly right-wing national daily. After months of speculation that CanWest Global Communications Corp. was set to fold its perennially money-losing National Post, the paper was granted a reprieve. Ken Whyte, editor-in-chief, and Martin Newland, his deputy--the duo behind the Post's cheeky mixture of agenda-driven news, pointed commentary and unapologetic fluff, have left to pursue unspecified "opportunities." Leonard Asper, CanWest chief executive, announced a three-year plan to make the paper profitable and appointed his older brother David to oversee the flagship. Matthew Fraser, a media commentator and journalism professor with no previous management experience, was named editor-in-chief. More and more Post reporters have been showing up on TV screens, and the content of the chain's daily papers across the country has become increasingly standardized--a trend that seems sure to intensify as the company struggles to get out from under a $3.6-billion debt load.

The article focuses on newspaper publishing in Iran. Since 2000, scores of newspapers, both reformist and conservative, have had their licences revoked by the government for being too critical. Tehran at one point had more than 70 dailies; today, there are about 20. According to one source, in March 2000 Iran's newspapers had a total daily circulation of 3.1 million. A year later, that had been reduced to 1.75 million, a 45-per-cent decline. At one of the newest, and bravest, reformist newspapers, Shargh, I met the young newsroom staff -- over half were women -- who put out six neatly designed editions a week, taking turns on three computers. In the editor-in-chief's office at another new daily, Bonnie Film, Iran's first entertainment newspaper, the walls are covered with the front pages of past editions.

Presents the author's musings on the effects of newspaper ownership on editorial content. The editorial policies of the 'Chicago Tribune' circa 1920, under the ownership of Robert R. McCormick; How the 'Los Angeles Times' has changed since the 1995 appointment of Mark Willes as Chief Executive Officer (CEO); The effects of globalization on the newspaper industry.

Discusses the outbreak of newspaper wars as of November 1998. Mention of the launch of a national paper by Conrad Black and the following hostile takeover for the `The Toronto Sun' empire by the paper; Mention of several publishers, including John Honderich of `The Star.'

Discusses how the author's husband is starting up a national newspaper in Canada. The party he threw in celebration of the launch; How she believes every journalist dreams of starting a newspaper; Her criticism of the homogeneity of the Canadian media; How starting a newspaper can become a compulsion.

This article reports on losses in newspaper readership in 2008 and how the industry is compensating for its financial issues. Circulation and revenues have fallen for newspapers such as "The New York Times" the "Los Angeles Times," and the "Boston Globe." The "Capital Times" has stopped printing altogether and shifted to online news only. The article also discusses layoffs, advertisers' shift to online forums, and how economic conditions in the U.S. and Canada are affecting publications.

This article focuses on Dose, a free daily magazine in Canada. Dose, set to launch in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa on April 4, will consist of a daily newsprint magazine, a wireless media portal and a website produced for and by 18-to-34-year-old urbanites. In the last decade, free dailies, initially designed for public-transit commuters with nothing else to pass the time, have been popping up in cities all over the world. Inside the office, fresh-faced editors and writers sit at an enormous wooden desk, churning out original features and repackaging wire copy about entertainment, sports, popular culture and news. The commuter-daily trend, which originated in Sweden in 1995 with Metro, appears to be just heating up in Canada. Dose promises to be more aggressively youth-focused by providing content on multiple platforms. Its website, for example, will feature breaking news, a local search tool and a music channel; its wireless portal will provide instant access to movie listings, games and ring tones. The slow erosion of youth readership is a growing problem for traditional dailies. According to the Newspaper Audience Databank, only 45 per cent of 18- to 34-year-old Canadians currently read a newspaper every day, compared to 63 per cent in 1986. The real problem is a generational shift in how people consume information.