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Reuters reports:
Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available online, the Internet search leader said on Monday.
In a blog post on the Silicon Valley-based company’s website, Google said it is looking to make old newspapers searchable online by partnering with newspaper […]

Van Crosbie is back with the Second Part of his multi-part post: Transforming American Newspapers, the crux of which is:
The industry’s problem isn’t its ownership, the Internet, or lacks of multimedia or interactivity. The problem is its general-interest product has become obsolete.
Plus the industry, according to Crosbie, has failed to ask the question:
Why did more than […]

The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt, in a video interview with Leonard Witt of the Public Journalism Network (PJNet.org), tells of the power of the Black blogosphere in saving the then 14-year-old Shaquanda Cotton from seven years in jail for shoving a hall monitor and then how that same Afro-American blogosphere drove the Jena 6 protest […]

Earlier I promised to keep tabs on the listserv discussion about whether the “Newspaper Division” in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) should change its name. Here are excellent reactions from both Clyde Bentley, journalism professor at the University of Missouri, and Phil Meyer, author of the Vanishing Newspaper, to Susan […]

The Pew Research Center released a study focusing on USA newspapers, here are the key findings:
 

The majority of newspapers are now suffering cutbacks in staffing, and even more in the amount of news, or newshole, they offer the public. The forces buffeting the industry continue to affect larger metro newspapers to a far greater extent than […]