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Longtime Kentucky Editor Michael Reliford Dies at 68

17 hours 20 min ago
Ashland, Ky. -- Editor and general manager Michael D. Reliford, a 47-year employee of The Independent, died early Monday morning at King’s Daughters Medical Center. He was 68.

American Community Newspapers Sells Star Community Newspapers to 1013 Communications

19 hours 58 min ago
 PLANO, TX - February 22, 2011 - American Community Newspapers announced today that it sold its operations in Texas, Star Community Newspapers, to 1013 Communications.  Star Community Newspapers (SCN) consists of 15 publications that serve ...

Adult Education: How The Tyee wants to Maximize its Readers Through Master Classes

19 hours 59 min ago
There’s a certain “why not us” feel to The Tyee’s plan to start offering classes to its readers. The Vancouver news site is known for being somewhat experimental in its approach to funding and producing its wor ...

News Sites on the Mobile Web: Vast Room for Improvement

20 hours 53 sec ago
Many news publishers focus their mobile strategies on platform-specific apps—but the mobile web may actually be more important, since a mobile website is easier to discover, link to, and share from a mobile device. Damon Kiesow, senior prod ...

A Guardian Hotel? Publisher Says it is ‘Exploring Otions’

20 hours 1 min ago
Guardian News and Media says it is “currently researching and exploring a range of options”, amid claims that it is thinking of developing a new hotel concept. A post on the Washington-based Harry’s Place blog quoted a m ...

PrintCity Alliance Announces "Print: Seen! Lean & Green" Theme For drupa Hall 6

21 hours 39 min ago
Gröbenzell, Germany, February 22, 2012 – PrintCity Alliance members & partners announce their detailed plans for drupa 2012, offering visitors access to their Connection of Competence knowledge sharing and industry leading hot ...

Financial Times Tops SABEW Best in Business Journalism Competition with Nine Awards

21 hours 42 min ago
NEW YORK:  22 February 2012:  The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) has awarded the Financial Times with nine prizes, the most given to any one news outlet, in its annual Best in Business contest. The competition, whi ...

Gannett Holds Investor Meeting to Present Growth Strategy and Cash Flow-Funded Capital Program and Expects to Return More than $1.3 Billion to Shareholders by 2015

21 hours 56 min ago
McLean, VA, February 22, 2012 – At its first Investor Day in New York City today, Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) President and Chief Executive Officer Gracia Martore and her senior leadership team presented the company’s new growth ...

iMedia Revenue Ltd. Provides Newspaper Publishers With Forum For Online Business Opportunities

21 hours 59 min ago
Research Triangle, NC –February 21, 2012 – iMedia Revenue Ltd., a company dedicated to delivering the latest advanced editorial and advertising solutions to local newspaper agencies, today announced the launch of a BloggingWriters ...

New Jersey Herald Enters a New Era

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 3:47am
The New Jersey Herald will end a long tradition on April 2 when its printing operations will be moved to North Jersey Media Group's facilities in Rockaway. North Jersey Media, owner of the Bergen Record, also prints USA Today, the Gannett Westche ...

Illinois Student Newspaper in Debt, Requesting Funding from Student Fees

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 3:38am
The Daily Illini is pleading for help. The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is $250,000 in debt to its printer, the Champaign News-Gazette, and taking new measures to stay afloat. On Monday, the Dail ...

Marie Colvin, American-born Journalist Killed in Syria, Remembered as Fearless

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 3:27am
Marie Colvin, an American war reporter killed in a mortar strike in Syria Tuesday, is being remembered by colleagues as one of the bravest foreign correspondents of the current generation. Raised in the Oyster Bay area of Long Island, Colvin attend ...

Newspaper Building Is Put Up For Sale

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:25am
A venerable piece of Vancouver's skyline is being sold by the city to pay down Olympic Village debt. The Province building, where this newspaper was produced from 1923 until 1960, is for sale.

Man Convicted in Conspiracy Case Also Accused of Hacking Computer for NoW

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:16am
A man at the centre of allegations that computers were hacked for the News of the World has been convicted of conspiring to illegally access private information for profit. Until Monday legal restrictions meant that what is known about Philip Campbel ...

Palestinian Journalists Under Pressure

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:15am
The International Press Institute (IPI) has registered its concern over the treatment of Palestinian journalists by both Israeli forces and Palestinian security services. The press freedom watchdog says that since the beginning of 2012, at least five ...

Don’t Shoot The Messenger Over User Content, Courts Confirm

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 9:09am
People are lining up to sue sites like Yelp and Ripoff Report over their users’ misbehavior, but courts continue to slam the door in their face. A new report shows the sites’ traditional legal shield is still strong, but that some ...

Should the New York Times Take Over for the Inquirer?

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 5:57am
Has there been a more depressing week for Philadelphia media in recent memory? In the last few days, we’ve learned that A) the separate identities of the Inquirer and Daily News are slowly but surely disappearing; B) that a l ...

Is Twitter a Newspaper, Or Is It the Phone Company?

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 5:55am
Is Twitter a publisher and distributor of information like a newspaper, or is it just a dumb pipe like a telephone network? Lawyers in Australia seem to believe that a case could be made that Twitter is a publisher, like a newspaper, and therefore it ...

San Antonio Express-News Production Technician David O'Neill Dies at 47

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 5:37am
David O’Neill, who served as production director at The New York Post and supervised the installation of four Goss Postliner offset presses at their South Bronx site from 1997 to 2001, collapsed and died following a heart attack on Feb. 19. ...

USA TODAY Sports Media Group Selects SeatGeek as Official Ticketing Partner

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 4:26am
MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The USA TODAY Sports Media Group announced today that it has selected SeatGeek as an official ticketing partner. SeatGeek, a leading ticket search engine, will provide visitors to each of the more than 100 m ...