Are We Ready For the End of the Newspaper?

Think back 10, 15 years. How did you get your news? Chances are you got it by either newspaper or magazine. The channels for obtaining information were relatively few, the Internet still in its infancy. Fast-forward to the present and the entire news landscape is different.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-maron/are-we-ready-for-the-end-_b_1833883.html

Weekly Herald succumbs to industry trends

The Weekly Herald publishes its final issue on Aug. 29.

For more than 50 years, the free weekly newspaper delivered to the doorsteps and coffee shops of south Snohomish County has provided a way to find out what's going on in town, learn about interesting locals, exchange opinions on politics and get the scoop on neighborhood businesses.

The Weekly Herald's voice wasn't the only one in the community, but it rang loud and clear.

And now that voice is lost.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120828/SCBJ02/708309995/1005/BIZ

Commercial Appeal Cuts at Least 17 Employees

The Commercial Appeal is planning another round of layoffs, according to reports on Mediaverse, a media-centric blog by Richard Thompson.

In an email to members Monday, Aug. 27, Memphis Newspaper Guild president Wayne Risher announced that The Commercial Appeal is eliminating 17 guild-covered jobs as part of a “planned reduction in force.”

http://blog.memphisdailynews.com/?p=5845

Newspapers And The Postal Service, Both Struggling For Survival, Wage War On Each Other - International Business Times

Newspapers And The Postal Service, Both Struggling For Survival, Wage War On Each Other - International Business Times

Newspaper Executives: ‘We’re Still Relevant’

While the imminent demise of the newspaper industry seems obvious to media prognosticators and Internet users the world over, many newspaper executives still don't see the writing on the walls.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/374438/20120816/newspaper-association-managers-associated-press-industry-newspapers.htm

Newspapers say US Postal Service plan to offer discounts to direct marketing firm is unfair

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Postal Service is proposing to cut its rates for one of the nation’s top direct marketing companies, a move that threatens the newspaper industry’s biggest money-maker: the Sunday advertising bundle.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/newspapers-say-us-postal-service-plan-to-offer-discounts-to-direct-marketing-firm-is-unfair/2012/08/15/ed2065a0-e6f4-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html

Times-Picayune Vets Reinvent Themselves After Layoffs

Two journalists fired by the New Orleans Times-Picayune have a plan to escape a struggling industry and the unemployment into which it is dumping them.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/times-picayune-layoffs_n_1760515.html