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Reports on the libel suit filed by Massachusetts Superior Board judge Ernest B. Murphy against the "Boston Herald." Murphy's assertion that the paper misstated facts about his handling of a young rape victim's case which resulted in thousands of angry letters and at least two death threats directed at him; His claim that his personal and professional reputation had been damaged; Appearance of a Herald reporter on a Fox News television program.

Reports on Superior Court judge Ernest Murphy's testimony in his libel suit against “The Boston Herald” that he never told lawyers that a 14-year-old victim of statutory rape needed to “get over it.”

Reports on the announcement of the U.S. Justice Department that it had begun an antitrust investigation into the planned investment of the New York Times Co. in "Boston Metro," a free daily newspaper owned by a unit of Metro International.

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

The article focuses on the acquisition of the New Orleans newspaper "The Times-Picayune" by its rival "The Advocate." Topics covered include the impact of the acquisition on the employees of the acquired newspaper, the rivalry between the two newspapers which faced a digital approach to the challenges of the news industry, and the social, economic, and political issues covered by the newspapers.

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.

Announces the decline in the 2003 third quarter earnings of the International Paper Co.

The article reports on the print hub which is a group of 56 journalists at The Times who will shepherd the day's news articles from their original digital presentations to the following day's physical paper is at work. It states that the print hub was established in 2017 wherein designers, editors, photo editors and news assistants are sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in long rows of desks.

The article reports on the announcement of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce that it will push through with plans to impose tariffs on Canadian newsprint as of August 3, 2018, highlighting the significant increase in paper cost.

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 focuses on newspaper "The Henley Standard" which found itself in problem over decision to retire word "Sir" as form of address for letters to editor and mentions views of reader Lyn Patey on the same.

The article focuses on the decline of local newspapers, reflecting on the author's experience working for a small daily paper and highlighting the significant impact of the loss of community-based journalism on the polarization and political confusion in society today.

The article discusses the involvement of sisters Christy Lynn, Elsie Lynn, and Polly Lynn in managing local newspapers throughout Vermont as of August 15, 2013. Topics addressed include the sisters' family background in the newspaper business and the role of their father, Angelo Lynn, as owner of the papers, and strategies for successful management of community newspapers.

The article discusses the purchase of "The Boston Globe" newspaper by John W. Henry, owner of baseball team the Boston Red Sox, on August 3, 2013, highlighting the sale's role in a trend of an increasing number of newspapers purchased by local owners in the U.S. Topics addressed include the paper's previous ownership by media company The New York Times Company, and reaction to Henry's purchase in Boston, Massachusetts.

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 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 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.

Discusses the conversion of some newspapers from broadsheet to tabloid. Use of this strategy by some papers to bring readers back; Reference to the dwindling circulation of some newspapers; Appeal of tabloids for large metropolitan areas; Concern among advertisers that they will have less impact in a tabloid than in a broadsheet; Description of broadsheet as being in a period of decline; Competition from a growing number of outlets, including free metro tabloids, for consumer attention and advertising dollars.

The article reports on the feud among four local periodicals at Greenwich Villave in Lower Manhattan, New York City that are vying for supremacy. It shows the fallout of "WestView News" that led its contributors to start a rival publication called "New WestView News," as well as the threat of defamation between columnist George Capsis and publisher Arthur Schwartz in "The Village Sun." Also noted is the goal of "The Village View" editor Kim Plosia to produce a local paper without interference.

The article reports that many Repulicans and independent politicians in Oklahoma have cancelled their subscriptions to the daily newspaper "The Enid News & Eagle" due to its endorsement of politician Hillary Clinton for U.S. president in 2016.

The article reports on the decision of editor Kevin Boyle to start his own newspaper called "The Rockaway Times" in which the paper will be delivered to apartment buildings and houses and left in busy storefronts in Queens, New York in 2014.

The article reports that the employees of The Boston Globe has united to deliver newspapers to subscribers who were angry about the delivery problems, and presents views of Beth Healy, a business reporter, on the work.

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 article reports on the December 2006 sale of "The Star Tribune" of Minneapolis from the McClatchy Company to the privately held Avista Capital Partners for $530 million. McClatchy claims the "Star Tribune" was a drag on the companies finances. Critics of the sale wonder if Avista, an equity firm with no other publishing businesses, is capable of running a newspaper.

This article describes the ouster of Dean Baquet as editor of the "Los Angeles Times." Baquet follows publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson, who was also ousted. Both men openly objected to staffing cuts ordered by the Tribune Company in September 2006. Johnson's successor, David Hiller, met with Baquet and announced after the meeting that he and Baquet had significant differences on the future direction of the newspaper.

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.

Looks at a publication from Forest City Ratner called "The Brooklyn Standard." How Forest City Ratner is the company promoting the development of an arena project in downtown Brooklyn; Comments from Patti Hagan of the Prospect Heights Action Coalition and Joseph DePlasco of Forest City Ratner; How the Forest City Ratner newspaper is really and advertisement for the proposed arena.

In the brave new world of media -- or the brave world of new media -- turnabout is most definitely fair play. Google, for instance, advertises itself in newspapers and trade publications. And now a leading paper company is promoting one of its products with a series of online video clips. The company is Sappi, and the product is Flo, Sappi's value-priced, or economy, line of paper. To gain a following for Flo among a target audience of printers and press operators, Sappi is sponsoring humorous webisodes under the title ''Off Register.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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]

The owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News filed for bankruptcy late Sunday night after talks aimed at restructuring their heavy debt load broke down, executives said. The papers will continue to operate and will remain under local control, said Brian Tierney, publisher of The Inquirer and the leader of a group of local investors who bought the papers in 2006, one of several newspaper deals from that era that have gone bad as the industry's revenues have plunged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In Detroit, a city that knows something about an industry facing a change-or-die moment, the two daily newspapers announced on Tuesday that they would make some of the most striking changes yet in a deeply troubled business. At the end of March, The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News will stop home delivery four days of the week, becoming the first major metropolitan dailies to take such a step. On those days, they will print pared-down editions for sale at newsstands -- 32-page, single-section papers. It was widely reported last week that the papers were contemplating such a move. [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.

Reports on the distribution of new daily newspapers. Hopes to attract younger readers with free subscriptions and brevity of articles; Street distribution of "amNew York," a free daily whose primary investor is the Tribune Company; Similar papers in Chicago and Washington; Struggle of free daily papers to make profits; Comments of skeptics and supporters.

Reports on the plans of Daily News to increase the circulation of its free weekday paper, `The Daily News Express.' Newsstand price of the newspaper; Plans of Daily News officials to increase the circulation of the paper.

Reports on the shift of `The Hour,' Connecticut's local daily paper, to morning publication beginning September 18, 2000. Remaining afternoon newspapers in the state; Competitors of the paper in the morning delivery; Weekday circulation of the paper as of March 31, 2000.

Reports on the closure of the paper, Bahar, in Iran, on August 8, 2000. Reason for the closure; Background of the paper; Information on Ahamad Pournejati, a member of the Parliament who resigned office to protest the attacks on the reformers.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Ibrahim al-Amine, the hawk-eyed editorial chairman of Al Akhbar, describes his newspaper's founding ambitions this way: ''We wanted the U.S. ambassador to wake up in the morning, read it and get upset.'' He succeeded. Earlier this month Al Akhbar became the only Arab newspaper to obtain its own substantial batch of WikiLeaks cables and gleefully cataloged various embarrassments to the region's kings, princes and politicians. Soon afterward, the paper's popular Web site came under a cyberattack that became a story in its own right, and provided more free publicity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The logistics of distributing any newspaper are daunting, but imagine not knowing, even a few days in advance, where the paper will be printed, who will deliver it, where the readers will be or how much danger they will be in. That is what Stars and Stripes faces in a new military deployment, and helps explain why the first copies did not reach Haiti until Saturday, 11 days after American troops began to arrive there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Arizona's oldest continuously published daily newspaper, The Tucson Citizen, will publish its final print edition Saturday after its owner failed to find a buyer. Kate Marymont, Gannett's vice president for news, told the newspaper's staff on Friday that The Citizen would continue with a Web edition providing commentary and opinion, but no news or sports coverage. She said the paper's 60 employees would know by the end of Friday if they would be laid off, kept on short term or be hired long term. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The fast-shrinking newspaper business set a new standard for job insecurity in the last couple of weeks. Winning your profession's highest honor does not mean you get to keep your job, and neither does taking a bullet while at work. On Feb. 7, 2008, Todd Smith, a reporter and editor, went on a routine assignment to cover a city council meeting in Kirkwood, Mo., for the Suburban Journals, a chain of papers outside St. Louis. A man with a gun and a grudge stormed City Hall and fatally shot six people, before being killed by the police. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Hearst Corporation has given the first concrete sign that it might turn its Seattle newspaper into an Internet-only news outlet, making offers to some of its staff to stay on in such an operation, journalists there said on Thursday. Hearst said in January that if it could not sell The Seattle Post-Intelligencer by this Tuesday, it would stop printing the paper and either shut it down or become a much smaller online publisher. No buyer has emerged, and an announcement is expected next week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]