“[T]he total decline in value of the dozen newspaper shares trading since the first of the year was nearly $27.7 billion, a plunge of 35.7% in 6½ months. This calculation does not include the shares of Scripps…”

‘He says a government grant would save up to £200 million a year spent collecting licence fees, which he described as a “desperately unfair tax”’

“I read a lot about journalism online these days and there’s an endless refrain that goes something like this: The people leading newspapers are imbeciles, and if only they had more foresight, had planned ahead and embraced the Internet sooner, newspapers

“Labour MPs – counselling offered ahead of future unemployment…”

“Starting on July 28, the Journal will raise its cover price from $1.50 to $2, putting it on a par with the Financial Times. Interestingly, the hike comes as the paper’s editors are being urged to think more about how they can use the front page to boost

“11 papers are being forced to pay out £550,000 between them – a little over £50,000 apiece – and that may seem like a small price to pay in order to continue their lawless activities”

How does leaking details from this (censored) Annual report, only to favoured mainstream media journalists, ahead of the supposedly informed debate in the HoC, but not making it available to the public via the web, give the impression of anything other th

“When legal letters threatening action for defamation arrive in an editor’s in-tray, the names of certain lawyers can induce a queasy feeling. Robert Verkaik, our Law Editor, profiles the libel specialists”

“[R]eading customers aren’t deserting newspapers at anything approaching the rate that advertising customers are. That is no consolation for newspaper company employees who are losing their jobs…”

“The metadata applied to blank cassettes was almost exclusively applied by biro, whether it was to the label of the cassette or writing out tracks by hand on the inlay card.”