According to the excellent (if depressing) PaperCuts newspaper layoffs tracker, more than 20,000 jobs have been cut from American newspapers since the beginning of 2008—more than 3,500 in the past two months. That quickening trend is going to continue as the industry's spiral worsens and...

A couple of smart reads today on what people should be thinking about when they think about online news—and one not-so-smart one: My pal Jim Brady, former executive editor at Washingtonpost.com, in a wide-ranging Q&A at Poynter on the state of online news: I think the level of experimentation ...

I never knew or had the privilege of working for Jim Bellows, but I was fortunate to be a regular reader of his mid-'70s Washington Star and became a total fan. He was the kind of newspaper editor they just don't make anymore, a bold, creative, aggressive leader who wasn't afraid to twea...

A Congressman–a Democratic Congressman, at that–has given public voice to something a lot of journalists don't want to know about or talk about: A large number of people are actively rooting for newspapers and other media to die horrible deaths. Rep. Jared Polis (D.-Colo.) said this ab...

This was the week that was: The owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News filed for bankruptcy protection; so did Journal Register Co. Hearst said it would close the San Francisco Chronicle if it cannot drastically cut costs or find a buyer. The Rocky Mountain News ended publication after ne...

With buzz growing over the Kindle 2 and its potential as a newspaper- and magazine-reading device, as well as a bookreader, it's worth remembering that the idea of an electronic tablet for reading news has a long and so far unsuccessful history. More than 15 years ago, Knight-Ridder's Roger ...

There's an interesting article in The New York Times about newspapers working with Yahoo to sell online ads. The newspaper partnership with Yahoo has always been a mixed bag, but clearly the ability to leverage Yahoo's Web know-how to teach traditional print ad reps to sell online ads is pay...

If you want some idea why the San Francisco Chronicle is on the brink of extinction, just take a look at its Web site, SFGate. It's a perfectly adequate newspaper Web site–and that's the problem. Newspapers have been fumbling their Web sites for years, and that's one reason why the fut...

OK, who had the San Francisco Chronicle in the daily newspaper dead pool? Probably everybody. Hearst Co.'s announcement that it is considering closing the Chronicle, barring a sale (less than unlikely) or significant concessions from its unions (less than likely) really is no surpris...

Philadelphia Media Holdings, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection tonight, after failing to reach a new financing agreement with its lenders. The company was several months behind on its debt payments. PMH is a former client, and I have ma...