It's not just the UK tabloids that saw a fall in circulation in November, as News of the World and the Sun dropped below 3 million copies each. Quality daily newspapers in the UK are suffering falling daily circulation as well, Peter Preston reports [...] 
(Disclaimer: I worked as a contract or freelance columnist for Editor & Publisher Online from 1995 till this week, covering for the site and sometimes E&P magazine the intersection of newspapers and the digital revolution. I do not have inside information about why Nielsen Co. shuttered E&P, [...]
Guest Essay By A. E. P. (Ed) Wall
Eighty years ago I watched my grandpa as he read the Jamestown Post.
My grandma read Street and Smith’s Love Story magazine, while my mom was immersed in the CLSC – the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Society. I still have the diploma she was [...]
Writing a column (”Stop The Presses!“) for Editor & Publisher Online, where I’ve covered the intersection (perhaps I should call it a collision) of the Internet and newspapers since 1995, is the longest-running professional gig I’ve ever had. The only things in my life that [...]
Five out of the six district reporting positions for Express Newspapers will be cut and copy from news agencies will be used in their place, The Guardian reports.
The newspaper industry is struggling. Circulation is down, layoffs are ubiquitous, but fortunately, the industry is not taking it lying down. Even though most US newspapers are still turning a profit, the wheels are turning to come up with alternative revenue streams. [...] In the most-awaited session of the afternoon of Day 1 at LeWeb, Michael Arrington (from TechCrunch) sat down with Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience at Google to discuss a series of hot topics like recent Google innovations, mobile and the newspaper industry.
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Web hosting service College Publisher recently re-revamped its Web site CollegeMediaNetwork.com as a content aggregator for CP's vast network of college newspapers.
Rusty Lewis, College Media Network director, said after the company launched a new business-to-business site a year ago, CollegePublisher.com, CMN's Web site was free to showcase [...]
Print newspaper circulation is down across the U.S., Editor and Publisher reports, in an article that examines reasons for, and responses to, the fall.
The Tindle Newspapers Group, which publishes over 200 local and regional papers in the UK, some of which are over 100 years old, has judged its various paid content experiments as successful and now plans to erect paywalls at 40 of its titles. 
Staff at French daily newspapers Le Parisien and Aujourd'hui en France have reiterated their opposition to their management's planned job cuts, but rejected plans for another strike.
In an innovative project from the Netherlands, the Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science has managed to gain support from the Parliament for more funding for journalism.
Persgroep Publishing, a Belgian newspaper group is to cut 131 jobs at its de Volkskrant and Trouw newspapers, reports Dutch News.
More job cuts have been announced at newspapers across the U.S., adding to the news that USA Today and the Washington Times plan to cut staff.
Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology at Columbia University Medical Center, remembers the last flu pandemic, which occurred in 1968.
"It's a great contrast [with today], because back then you had to wait weeks for information, and the only way you got it was through newspapers and scientific journals," [...]
At the International Association of Sports Newspapers workshop last week, editors spoke about the way that multimedia news has affected their newsrooms, and how they hope to make more money online. The workshop was held at the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India. 
