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The article focuses on the increasing price of newsprint in the United States. Skyrocketing newsprint prices have been blamed for everything from a hiring freeze at the newspaper "The Dallas Morning News," to a price hike for the Sunday edition of the newspaper "The New York Times." With no easing on the newsprint front, where costs are up by about 35 percent to 40 percent over a year ago, this year's price jumps ultimately may give newspaper publishers another strong shove toward the electronic media.

Comments on a reality television show based on "The New York Daily News" newspaper. Cost and gross income of a 1992 movie-musical about New York newspapers; List of the newspaper's reporters to be featured in the reality show; Outlook of Martin Dunn, editorial director and deputy publisher of the newspaper, on appearing on television.

Reports on the negotiation of Gannett Co. to buy Washington suburban newspaper group DCI Inc. Implication of the acquisition for Gannett; Details of the suburban newspaper network launched by DCI Inc. with several other publishers; Properties and businesses of DCI Inc.

The article deals with the move of U.S. newspaper publishers to turn to Hispanic American consumers in line with the declining newspaper readership among the general market. In presentations to financial analysts in December 2003, Tribune Co., Knight Ridder Co., Pulitzer and E.W. Scripps Co. all noted they have Spanish-language publications out or in development. In one of the most ambitious efforts, Tribune Co. is trying to build a national Spanish-language brand by launching dailies under the name "Hoy" (Spanish for "today") in major Hispanic cities. Los Angeles, California is expected to be next, with the West Coast's "Hoy" starting as early as this month. And Dow Jones & Co. is likely to decide this year whether to go ahead with a U.S. Spanish-language edition of "The Wall Street Journal," probably modeled after the company's "Wall Street Journal Americas," a Spanish-language insert that reaches 1.7 million readers as an insert in 18 newspapers in 16 Latin countries. Separately, Pulitzer launched its second bilingual weekly last month in northern Santa Barbara County, an area that is 60% Hispanic, said Mark Contreras, senior vice president of Pulitzer Newspapers. The paper,"El Tiempo, Semanario Latino de la Costa Central," is bilingual because research shows locals are as likely to read Spanish as English, he said. Because most of the county's Hispanic population hails from the Mexican state of Oxaca, the free weekly is a joint venture with Oxaca paper "El Imparcial."

The article presents a chronology of acquisitions made by newspaper publisher News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch around the world from 1953 to May 1994. In 1953, he took control of News Corp., consisting of an Australian paper owned by his father. He made his first acquisition outside Australia in 1963, a 28 percent share in Asia Magazines in Hong Kong, China. In 1973, he entered the United States with the acquisition of two San Antonio, Texas dailies. He paid about $1.65 million to buy six television stations from Metromedia Broadcasting and established the Fox Broadcasting Co. network in 1985. He sold the "New York Post" to comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations and acquired "TV Guide" as part of Triangle Publications. He invested $500 million in New World Communications Group Inc. in May 1994.

The article reports on the launch of "The Wall Street Journal" on the World Wide Web with a business model that requires all users to pay a subscription fee. With a base rate of $29 per year, the service is viewed as a bargain. The challenges for the paper are discussed. Advertisers that signed up for the launch include Apple Computer and Siemens.

Announces that weekly golf newspaper 'Golfweek' was acquired by new company Turnstile Publishing Co. in 1990. Circulation of the paper; Owner of Turnstile.