The Newseum recently updated its interface for viewing the front pages of more than 700 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Here’s a link and the web address http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

The Newseum offers an excellent chance to compare the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s…

Washington Post political reporter Dana Milbank reports that several members of Congress delighted in criticizing the press during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday to study the decline of the newspaper industry.

Milbank writes that the hearing “quickly deteriorated into a…

“American daily newspapers shed 5,900 newsroom jobs last year, reducing their employment of journalists by 11.3 percent to the levels of the early 1980s,” the American Society of News Editors reports in its annual survey of newsrooms.

ASNE reports that the percentage…

Union leaders at the Boston Globe say the New York Times Co. has threatened to shut down the Globe unless its unions make $20 million in concessions.

The Boston Globe is reporting tonight:

Executives from the Times Co. and Globe made the demands…

U.S. Sen Benjamin L. Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland, has introduced legislation that would allow newspapers to operate as non-profits with tax-exempt status, like PBS and NPR.

His goal is to help local papers, not newspaper chains.

Cardin said in a press release…

An article in the New York Times speculates which major American City will become the first without a prominent local newspaper.  Newark, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Denver and Miami are among the candidates mentioned.

The Post-Dispatch has been the only newspaper in St.…

Washington State is poised to give the state’s newspapers a tax break — an estimated loss of about $1.5 million a year in tax revenue.  One lawmaker noted the irony of giving tax breaks to papers whose editorials often backed…

“In the 21st century can public-service journalism remain viable, relevant and accountable?”

That’s the title of a forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 at the Missouri History Museum, Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue.  It will be hosted by the Reynolds Journalism…

Media critic Mike Miner says folks in the newspaper industry should hold on, there’s reason for hope.

Miner writes in a Chicago Reader article today:

…The Internet pelts us with news; a good newspaper arranges it in our heads.

Sooner or later, when the foreign…

Citing economic pressures facing the newspaper industry, two publishers in the Pacific Northwest have asked the state of Washington for tax breaks.

According to the Associated Press, the publishers of the Seattle Times and The Columbian in Vancouver testified in support…