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The article reports on the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on Canadian newsprint on local newspapers in the U.S. Topics discussed include the local publications in the U.S. that have closed or are facing financial challenges due to the increased cost of newsprint, the average annual cost of printing following the tariffs on newsprint and the ways in which the demise of local newspapers may affect Trump's relationship with the media.

Reports on billionaire investor Philip Anschutz's move to publish "The Washington Examiner," a free newspaper in Washington, D.C., in competition with the United States' most respected papers.

Reports that the New York Times Co. has agreed to buy a stake of daily newspaper publisher Metro Boston. Names of the newspaper publishing companies who have turned to a free publication to supplement the circulation of its paid offerings; Consideration for the willingness of readers to pay for a newspaper.

Reports that Journal Register Co. is buying 21st Century Newspapers Inc. in the U.S.

This article reports on the sale of the newspaper "Santa Clarita Valley Signal" by Paladin Multimedia Group to Richard Budman, former publisher of "The Signal", and his wife Chris Budman. It discusses the significance of the newspaper to Santa Clarita Valley in Los Angeles County, California, and the concerns of the community on the sale of the newspaper.

The article discusses how the print edition of the periodical is prepared; mentions the plant at College Point in Queens, in New York that produces nearly 41 percent of the daily papers; reports the comments of Amy Kelsey, deputy director of the periodical's news design, on the issue.

The article offers information on the sports media company The Athletic. It mentions the business strategy of the company that hires sportswriter of newspapers to give competition to newspaper companies. The article mentions the company provides subscription services to its customers in a form of website and mobile application. Also discussed is the financial condition of local and regional newspapers and how the The Athletic provides opportunities to skilled reporters.

The article reports that Argentina based news paper "Buenos Aires Herald" has closed as it was effected by technological changes which has made it difficult for small newspapers across the world to stay afloat and also because of neglect by a string ofowners who seemed to care little about publication's history and how it could adapt to themodern world.

The article reports on the declining fortunes of the newspapers of New Jersey as part of a retrenchment in newspaper publishing throughout the U.S. in 2016. It mentions that the performance of the industry have been felt acutely because of the role of New Jersey newspapers in holding powerful people and institutions accountable in a state which lacks a major independent television station.

The article discusses the success of "The Paper" digital newspaper in China as of 2016, and it mentions how the online mass media entity covers issues such as corruption and a vaccine scandal in China. According to the article, "The Paper" is overseen by the Chinese Communist Party. It states that the owner of "The Paper" plans to introduce an English-language version of the electronic newspaper called "Sixth Tone." Editor Wei Xing and Chinese news websites are also assessed.

The article focuses on tensions between the American newspaper publishing company Tribune Publishing and its two California newspapers, The San Diego Union-Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. Topics include Tribune Publishing's decision to lower its revenue projections for both newspaper's 2015 final quarter, both newspaper's finances, and Tribune Publishing chief financial officer Sandra J. Martin.

The article focuses on the newspaper "Etilaat e Roz" founded by Afghani resident Zaki Daryabi, and talks of popularity due to free Afghan news media and reports about Afghan democracy post the defeat of Taliban by international coalition, and challenges of political pressure and finance.

The article examines the outlook for Knight Ridder, which is selling itself to McClatchy. The combined company plans to sell 12 Knight Ridder papers. Employees at the Knight Ridder papers being kept by McClatchy will be working for a family-controlled business known for journalistic standards and disciplined management. Those at the 12 papers to be sold face uncertainty about who will own them. If it completes the $4.5 billion acquisition, McClatchy will become the second-biggest newspaper company in the U.S., behind the Gannett Company.

The article discusses entrepreneur Aaron Kushner's management of "The Orange County Register" newspaper, which is owned by Kushner's Freedom Communications media company, highlighting a lawsuits and problems facing Kushner. Topics addressed include Kushner's decision to resign as publisher of the "Orange County Register," as well as lawsuits filed by the "The Los Angeles Times" newspaper and other parties against Kushner for allegedly failing to make various payments.

The article discusses a trend of media companies such as Gannett, Tribune Company, and E.W. Scripps spinning off their newspaper operations into separate companies. The author discusses the reasoning behind a lack of optimism regarding the future of print newspapers, and he discusses the economic aspects of the print newspaper industry.

Discusses a dispute between the newsprint industry and newspaper publishers in the United States, as of May 2001. Impact of increased newsprint prices on the newspaper industry; Effect of declining revenues and the conservation of paper on publishers' willingness to pay more for newsprint.

The article examines economic conditions at U.S. newspapers. The industry is in the midst of a protracted economic decline. Major newspapers such as "The Boston Globe" and "Los Angeles Times" have lost over a third of their circulation from 2005-2008, and advertising revenue has fallen at almost all papers. Layoffs have affected dozens of newspapers. Although newspaper Web sites are gaining large numbers of readers, Internet advertising creates far less revenue than its print counterpart.

The author reports that MediaNews Group Inc., the newspaper chain controlled by William Dean Singleton, has announced plans to acquire four Knight-Ridder Inc. newspapers. According to the author, the four papers are among the 12 that McClatchy Newspapers Inc. purchased from McClatchy Newspapers Inc. The acquisition involves "The San Jose Mercury News," "The Contra Costa Times," "The Pioneer Press," and the "The Herald" of Monterey County, California.

The article examines the financial problems at the newspaper the Star-Tribune of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The newspaper's acquisition by private equity firm Avista and subsequent deep layoffs are presented. The complex lawsuit between the newspaper's publisher, Par Ridder, and his last employer, the competing St. Paul Pioneer-Press, is described. The employee's union, the Newspaper Guild, has organized public protests.

This article profiles the Queens, New York-based Times Newsweekly newspaper. The Times Newsweekly is an exclusively local newspaper, focusing only on events taking place in Queens. The article examines the standing of the Times as a purely local newspaper, and notes that, while larger-scale periodicals have struggled financially during the 21st century, local newspapers such as the Times Newsweekly have thrived.

The author reports that businesspeople and civic leaders are showing interest in owning their local newspapers again. Recent comments made regarding "The Los Angeles Times" by real estate billionaire Eli Broad are reviewed. The author reviews how a group led by advertising executive Brian P. Tierney recently purchased "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and "The Philadelphia Daily News." The social and economic aspects of the trend are discussed.

The article focuses on the future of Knight Ridder Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper chain. The author suggests that the company's future will influence the future of what has come to be known as the mainstream media. The company was recently put of sale. Various offers being made for the company are reviewed. The author reviews how Knight Ridder owns 32 daily newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald.

THIS is not an obituary. The Brooklyn Paper lives. Since 1978, it has been a ''loud, offbeat and somewhat irreverent'' voice in the borough, in the words of its founder and publisher, Ed Weintrob. The paper did, however, undergo something of a transformation this month when it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This newspaper is printed on paper made from cellulose fibers obtained from wood pulp. The fibers are fairly large, on the order of tens of micrometers wide, and the resulting paper is fairly weak -- pull on it and it tears easily. Researchers in Sweden and Japan have developed a much stronger paper, made from much smaller fibrils of cellulose. This ''nanopaper,'' they report in the journal Biomacromolecules, has a tensile strength greater than that of cast iron. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information about two Urdu-language newspapers based in the U.S., "The Pakistan Post," and "The Urdu Times," with reference to their vanishing copies. Though Mahammed Farooqi, owner and publisher of Pakistan Post, had got accustomed to his paper disappearing occasionally over the years, but recently every copy of his paper vanished and he was even threatened. Similarly, many copies of "The Urdu Times," also disappeared.

Reports on the overstatement of the average circulation figures of Tibune Co. papers, the Newsday and Hoy in the U.S. Effort made by the company to compensate advertisers; Number of Newsday and Hoy copies overstated in the average daily circulation in twelve months; Issues affecting the circulation of papers, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

With the announcement that News Corporation will be split in two, employees at the company's many print papers are facing a new reality: they are now in the newspaper business. For years, the success of News Corporation's lucrative cable and entertainment assets formed a buffer between its print properties and the downturn in the newspaper industry. Now, many journalists at those newspapers worry about what will happen as they become part of a much smaller company, grouped with HarperCollins and News Corporation's education assets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ISTANBUL -- A Turkish newspaper published the names and photographs on Monday of more than 140 Israeli soldiers who the paper said took part in the raid on a Turkish flotilla to Gaza last year that ended with the death of nine passengers and created a diplomatic standoff between Turkey and Israel. The newspaper, Sabah, said the Turkish government began searching for the soldiers' identities after the Israeli authorities failed to cooperate in an investigation that prosecutors in Turkey said could lead to legal action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print. The paper is currently published Monday through Friday, and will move to online only in April, although it will also introduce a weekend magazine. John Yemma, The Monitor's editor, said that moving to a Web focus will mean it can keep its eight foreign bureaus open. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the December 31, 2007 issue will be the last issue for the newspaper "The Cincinnati Post," and the companion title "The Kentucky Post." Both of the newspapers are part of a dying breed of afternoon dailies. The papers' 52 employees were given severance packages but only one, Kerry Duke, the special projects editor was offered another job within the company as managing editor of a successor Web site called Kypost.com, which will cover Northern Kentucky.

Reports on the impact of the popularity of newspapers web sites. Reference to the fact that at some newspapers, including the New York Times, the number of people who read the paper online now surpasses the number who buy the print edition; Transformation of the newspaper industry; Reference to advertising revenue from online sites as the newspapers' fastest-growing source of revenue; Concern among newspaper executives that they are giving away their content for free; Potential for less support for expensive news-gathering organizations and erosion of advertising revenue from the print side, which is much more profitable; Reference to the Wall Street Journal, which is the only national newspaper that charges readers to use their web sites; Suggestion at the "Times" that readers could be charged for portions of its content.

Focuses on the plan of a group of journalists and managers in Great Britain to start a daily newspaper called "The World". Amount of money needed to start the publication; Editorial staff for the paper; Target market for the daily.

Addresses a slowdown in the newspaper industry, as of March 2001, and declining investor expectations. Thoughts on a letter written by Mike Cassidy, a columnist for 'The San Jose Mercury News,' to P. Anthony Ridder, chief executive of Knight Ridder, which owns the newspaper, suggesting that Ridder stand up to irrational markets and redefine financial success; Other papers that are affected.

The article reports on the trend in the global newspaper publishing industry wherein companies are charging readers for access to their websites to compensate for declining revenues on their print products.

Looks at the problems being faced by the ethnic newspapers that are published in New York City. Objectives of publishing these papers; Cost-cutting measures adopted by various ethnic newspapers.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will produce its last printed edition on Tuesday and become an Internet-only news source, the Hearst Corporation said on Monday, making it by far the largest American newspaper to take that leap. But The P-I, as it is called, will resemble a local Huffington Post more than a traditional newspaper, with a news staff of about 20 people rather than the 165 it had, and a site with mostly commentary, advice and links to other news sites, along with some original reporting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Internet overtook print newspapers as a news source this year, according to a report by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which asked more than a thousand people where they got ''most of'' their national and international news. (Respondents were allowed to name more than one medium.) The change does not represent a decline in the popularity of newspapers, which actually picked up a percentage point over last year. Rather, it represents a near-doubling, from 24 percent last year, in the number of people naming the Internet as their primary news source. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Friday morning was a glorious one in suburban New Jersey. At 6 a.m., the heat of the morning leaked in through the window, accompanied by the huge racket of cicadas thrumming in unison. It was the kind of morning where someone might be tempted to just lie there pretending to sleep, but then another sound came: the thwack of fresh, hot newspaper hitting the sidewalk. The Star-Ledger delivery guy hits our block early, before the other newspapers arrive, usually dropping a hefty package jammed with localism writ large: wise-guy arias, street crime novellas and big investigations into the issues facing northern New Jersey. Under the sure hand of its editor, Jim Willse, The Star-Ledger is both modern -- big and pretty with strong photos, navigation and graphics -- and a throwback to the days when the most important story was the one just down the block. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SAM ZHERKA may not be your grandparents' idea of a newspaper publisher. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Carole Leigh Hutton, executive editor of the newspaper "San Jose Mercury News," would be replaced by David J. Butler. This was announced by the newspaper's publisher Jeff Kiel. Butler is vice-president for news at MediaNews Group and was earlier the editor and publisher for "The Detroit News."

The article reports that Tribune Co. would sell its daily newspapers "The Greenwich Time" and "The Advocate of Stamford" to Gannett Co. Inc for $73 million. The combined circulation of these newspapers is 39,000. Tribune would also sell its television stations in Boston, Atlanta and Albany. The sale of the newspapers will not include real estate in Stamford and Greenwhich in Connecticut.

Editorial. Discusses the role of “The NewYork Times” journal. Recognition of the primary function of the paper in giving news while maintaining its local identity; Citation of the distribution of the paper in other U.S. states.

The article reports that the reformist newspaper of Iran known as "Shargh," or East, has been shut down. It is being said that this has happened because the newspaper published a cartoon in one of its recent editions that seemed insulting to the government. Also, the newspaper had refused to replace its director.

Discusses how the news staff of several political publications from Washington, D.C. have relocated temporarily to Boston, Massachusetts, in order to cover the Democratic National Convention. Efforts of newspapers to publish special daily editions filled with convention news; Competition between the newspapers; Cost of publishing daily.

Reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Alawi ordered the reopening of a radical Shiite newspaper closed by United States soldiers nearly four months ago. Decree concerning the newspaper, "Al Hawza," which was a conciliatory gesture to rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr; Allawi's approval on the same day of an American air assault meant to pound another branch of largely Sunni insurgent fighters in the city of Fallujah; Allawi's strategy of making concessions to fighters who cooperate.

Reports on the bidding for British publisher Hollinger International's London periodical "The Daily Telegraph." Companies submitting offers for the daily broadsheet and the entire publishing firm; Resignation of Hollinger executive Conrad M. Black following an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Reports on the acquisition of "El Tiempo Latino" a weekly Spanish-language magazine in Washington, D.C. by Washington Post Co. Claim that Washington Post has acquired it from the Farragut Media Group.

Reports on the battle for the media empire built by Conrad M. Black, the Canadian publisher turned British Lord. Two versions for consideration; Lord Black as man who ignored his fiduciary duty so he could live well; Or, Lord Black as the victim of institutional investors who are out to deny him his fundamental rights of ownership; Role of the Sarbanes-Oxley law in each scenario; Ownership in Hollinger Inc. in Canada, Hollinger International in the U.S.; Stalemate in the struggle; Suggestion of a reasonable settlement by Lord Black; Suspicion that only the lawyers will come out on top.

Presents information on the plan of H. Brandt Ayers, publisher of 'The Anniston Star' newspaper in Alabama, regarding the establishment of an institute to train journalists and a foundation that will own the stocks in the parent company of the newspaper.

Discusses the founding of 'The New York Times' by Henry Jarvis Raymond and his partner George Jones in 1851. Background; Newspaper rivals, including Horace Greeley's 'The New York Tribune'; Account of the day of the newspaper's first delivery; Raymond's apprehension; Advice they received from Phineas T. Barnum in the Shakespeare Tavern.