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Most newspapers at some point during the day have an editorial meeting. In it, reporters and editors, their numbers dwindling as of this writing, sit around a table or perhaps [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DURING THE LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER 2008, AFTER THE last of a series of voluntary buyouts cost him two-thirds of his employees, The Times of Trenton publisher Brian [...]

FACEBOOK CEO MARK Zuckerberg has said a main reason people visit his site is to play games--40 percent of his 500 million users. And for the X, Y, and Z [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE DAYS OF SERVING DOUGHNUTS and coffee in the boardroom to local movers and shakers in order to gauge what's really going on in your community are over. [...]

With cleaned-up balance sheets, banks poised to grow Small community banks, which have been slowly wiping bad debt off their books, are now at a critical juncture: They have money [...]

They treat 9,300 casualties, assess damaged structures When a major earthquake rocked the Southland last month, neo-natal nurses at Saint John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica grabbed newborns [...]

Plasma & Materials Technologies Inc., a Chatsworth-based company that makes machines used to etch materials on the surface of computer chips, received more venture capital during the fourth quarter of [...]

Several large industrial deals kept the Inland Empire market churning in the fourth quarter last year, while vacancy rates continued to come down. But experts are forecasting less activity and [...]

More than a year after it announced plans to become the Southland's new garment district by wooing tenants from the crime-ridden environment of downtown Los Angeles' California Mart, developers of [...]

With little action on Southland real estate playing fields, two Santa Monica developers plan to break ground in the next few weeks on what they hope will be a high-scoring [...]

After delays that included groundwater toxic contamination tests and possible site plan revisions, Dole Food Co. Inc. is close to sprouting a new world headquarters in Westlake Village. The company, [...]

The article features 25 of the next generation of publishing leaders in the U.S. Tennessee's "Knoxville News Sentinel" Visuals editor Jigsha Desai was a shy Zambia native who earned awards and became a Newspaper Association of America Minority Fellow in 2004. "The Morning Journal" online manager Jennifer Bracken generated 58% growth in digital revenue and unique visitor traffic by 47%. "amNew York" advertising director Rachel Miller is said to develop breakthrough ideas that competitors copy.

The article features ten newspapers in the U.S. that do it right. The Marysville, California-based "Appeal-Democrat" newspaper focused on increasing its multimedia offering in 2010 to generate website growth and boost revenue. Among the featured leading newspapers are "The Press of Atlantic City" in New Jersey, the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and "The Register Citizen" in Connecticut.

The article looks at the importance of the Pulitzer Prize for newspapers. According to Sig Gissler, professor of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the administrator of Pulitzer Prizes, editors often said that winning the prize ratifies the readers' loyalty, help maintain support, increases circulation and can help attract talent. "The Seattle Times" and the "Concord Monitor" are among the cited newspapers that have won the Pulitzer Prize. INSET: How to Win a Pulitzer.

The article discusses the importance of the marketing department to the print newspaper organization. Particular focus is given to the decline in the number of readers of printed newspapers. Marketing consultant John Kimball comments on the tendency for newspapers to spend money convincing other businesses to market themselves. He points the need for newspapers to establish a marketing budget. Data also showed a decline in the profit generated by newspapers from print advertisements.

The article reports on the over 800 newspaper logo pen collection of Germany-based Ulli Russek. The newspapers were from various places in Europe, Australia and the U.S., including the "Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald," "The Daily Citizen" in Dalton, Georgia, and the "North County Times" in San Diego, California. His favorite is the logo pen of "The Bakersfield Californian" newspaper.

The article reports on an audiobased citizen journalism service for a tribal community in Chhattisgarh, India. Called CGNet Swara, it allows residents to produce and share audio news reports by calling a number on any fixed or cell phone. This service is believed to be the first source of news in the state, which is claimed as a primarily poor, rural area in central India.

The article discusses the use of neuromarketing by newspaper publishers and their advertisers. Particular focus is given to the use of electroencephalographs and biosensory measurements in monitoring where a person's eyes move as they click through Web sites and watch commercials. It cites a partnership formed by Time Inc. with EmSense to measure consumer interaction and response to advertising. It notes the development of effective sites by Google Inc. through the help of eye-tracking.

The article focuses on the move by Vicki Whiting, editor and founder of the weekly syndicated newspaper "Kid Scoop," to publish a special and free edition on the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It notes that Whiting arrived with such decision after realizing the need to educate children about the tragedy. It adds that the newspaper has published other special editions on international tragedies, one is the September 11, 2011 terrorist attacks. Newspaper features include games and puzzles.

The article features The Punch Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University in New York City. It describes the program where company decision-makers fly in four times during the year for a week of leadership training. Program founder Arlene Morgan of Columbia University claims it is a collaboration and bonding experience in the newspaper business as executives, who really want journalism to succeed, work together on projects to improve their own newsrooms.