The Newspaper Industry E-Newsletter
Distributed exclusively to members and subscribers of INMA
Volume 10, Number 10
Distributed 12 March 2009
Selected by the staff of INMA, the following are headline links to news and features on
the newspaper industry that have been posted to the web in the past seven days. These items may
be found at The Newspaper Industry, a web portal to the business of newspapers produced
throughout the day by INMA.
Headline News
Advertising
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The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times Join Yahoo's Newspaper Consortium
New York Times Looking for Paid Content Ideas That Generate New Revenues
Alongside the Web Site's Existing Display Advertising Model
A.H. Belo Adopts Yahoo's APT Software, Application Helps Advertisers Buy Space on
Newspapers' Web Sites
Australian Industry Body, The Newspaper Works, Released an "Effectiveness Report"
Detailing Newspapers' Usefulness to Retail Advertisers
Advertising Market Difficult for College Newspapers
Circulation
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Global Economic Downturn Holdings New Opportunities for the Financial Times to
Grow Its Audience
Bulk Sales Programmes Undermine Newspapers' Circulation Reporting
Declining Circulation Behind Daily Sport Publisher Sport Media Group's Decision to
Drop Out of the UK Circulation Audit
Ottawa Citizen Cutting Back on Newspaper Boxes, Boxes Not Proving Cost Effective
Distribution Channel
New Jersey's Newsworld Printing the UK's Daily Mail for the New York Market
UK Audit Bureau of Circulation to Review National Daily's Bulk Circulation Figures
Convergence
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Newspaper Publisher Hearst Planning to Move Into the E-Reader Business
Internet
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Newspapers' Online Audiences Show Considerable Growth in January 2009
Plans to Charge for Newspapers' Online Content Rest on the Dubious Assumption That
Readers Will be Willing to Pay
The Guardian's "Open Platform" Application Lets Its Partners Share the Newspaper's
Content Online
Despite Concerns About Online Profitability, Clever Thinking in the Digital Space Can
Still Benefit Newspapers
South Africa's Herald and the Weekend Post Launch New Web Site
Publishers are Moving to Replace Print Publications With Online Alternatives
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Local Newspapers Suffer Fluxuations in Online Audience Throughout the Year
Spain's Culture Ministry and Other Organisations Establish an Online Database of the
Country's Newspapers Going Back to 1777
A Focus on Online Local Coverage May Help Struggling Newspapers
Hearst Corporation Working to Shift the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to Online-Only
Increasingly, Newspapers Are Considering Charging for Online Content
Journalism
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Survey of Journalism Students Found That For Most, Newspapers Weren't Their Primary
Source of News
Management
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Observer Standard Media Group in the UK Looking for Buyers for 9 Newspapers, 150
Jobs Could Go
Washington State House of Representatives Approves Bill Giving Newspapers Tax Cuts
Miami Herald to Cut 175 Employees, Plans Pay Cuts and Unpaid Furlough Programme
for the Remaining Staff
McClatchy to Cut 15% of Its Staff in Cost-Cutting Effort
New York Times Company Generates US$225 Million With Sale of Its Headquarters
Increasing the Newsstand Price a Dangerous Move in a Hyper-Competitive Market
Newspaper Publisher Archant Reports 2008 Profits Down 27.2%
MEN Media, Manchester Evening News Publisher, Closing the Editorial Offices of Its
Weekly Newspapers and Cutting 150 Jobs
Kansas' Wichita Eagle to Cut 14 Positions as Part of Parent McClatchy's Plan to Cut 15%
of Its Group-Wide Workforce
McClatchy's Restructuring Plan to Include Staffing Cuts and Reductions in Pay
Ireland's Herald AM and Metro Ireland Reportedly to Merge
Northcliffe Newspapers Pulling Back on Some Publications and Cutting 95 Employees
Express Newspapers Looking for New Money-Saving Opportunities After Layoffs Fail
to Reach Its Target
UK Regional Newspaper Publisher Archant to Cut 54 Positions From Its Norfolk
Editorial Staff
New York Times Chairman Says the Company is Open to Almost Anything in This
Critical Environment
Torstar to Let 60 Printing Plant Employees Go, Newspaper's Shrinking Size Allowing for
Smaller Staff
Financial Times' Publisher Pearson Seems Well Positioned to Weather the Economic
Downturn
Boston Globe Updating Presses Ahead of Printing Operations' Consolidation in a Single
Facility
Rising Profits at Pearson Aggravating Financial Times Journalists Facing Layoffs and
Pay Freezes
Fresno Bee, In Negotiation With Employee Union, May Cut 25% of Newsroom Staff if
Agreement Over Salary Reduction Plan Isn't Reached
Fort Worth Star-Telegram to Cut 12% of Its Staff, Reduce Wages, and Plans an Unpaid
Furlough Programme
McClatchy Unlikely to Receive US$5.3 Million Owed to It by Newspapers It Once
Owned
Regional Newspaper Publishers in the UK Band Together to Present United Front When
They Go to the Government Seeking Aid
Media
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Free Newspapers Have Changed the Face of London's Newspaper Market
Technology Industry's Culture Could Do Newspapers Good
Boston Globe Ceases Publication of Its Weekly Sports Tabloid, OT
Tennessee's News Sentinel, Commercial Appeal, The Tennessean, and the Chattanooga
Times Free Press Begin Sharing Content
MediaNews Group Experimenting With Individualised Print Newspapers
Mid-Day Rebrands and Redesigns Its Mumbai Saturday Edition
India's English-Language Deccan Herald Rolls Out New Page Design
Florida Society of Newspaper Editors Drops "Paper" From Its Name
Wall Street Journal Becoming More of a General News Newspaper
Research
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Study Finds Most American's Don't Read Their Local Newspaper, in Print or Online