"We all know the newspaper industry has been hit long before the economic downturn of 2009. As a magazine designer for a newspaper company, I was curious as to how the industry is doing as a whole: What parts of the industry have the most growth? Where are the jobs? Is employment falling? How do books, magazines and newspapers compare with "new media"?"

"The Washington Post has suspended veteran sports columnist Mike Wise for publishing fabricated information on Twitter. He announced the one-month suspension on his radio show Tuesday."

"The idea of pointing audiences towards interesting material is far from a new thing. Print outlets have been syndicating articles for almost as long as they've existed, while specialist magazines such as the Week emerged in the mid 1990s to collate and distribute journalism. Then, of course, there's the venerable Reader's Digest – nearly a century old – which promised to bring its audiences the best writing, even if it took a hatchet to most of it along the way."

"As long as there has been individuals like myself putting free content out there, there have been traditional content sources milking off of it."

"Compare the whole 400-plus word article with the original press release, and – bar six words, by our count, which were changed to meet Guardian house style – it isn't just similar. It's absolutely identical."

"Magazines have long used focus groups to tailor their package. New Scientist took another route for its latest issue, testing whether neuromarketing, which examines the brain’s response to products and brands, could help make the magazine more appealing. "

"Someone asked me before I flew to South Africa: “How do you find stories? How do you know what to write down?” For a moment, I toyed with the idea of puffing up my chest and launching into a detailed diatribe on almost four decades in journalism and how experience coupled with knowledge and skill allowed me to ply my trade at the highest level on one of the world’s great newspapers. But I chose the truth and confessed that, most of the time, I have absolutely no idea how journalism works."

"Jordan Flaherty, a community organizer and journalist based in New Orleans who is the editor of Left Turn magazine, will be attending and participating in the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit next week. He and other journalists will be coming together to put on a workshop called, “Grassroots Media and Movements for Justice,” and share their insight into how investigative journalism can benefit social movements."

"Call it Reader's Despair Syndrome, a condition that is afflicting New York's young and old with equal viciousness, but which tends to produce the most dramatic symptoms in people in their 20s and 30s, who retain hope that they will one day become more productive and virtuous in their Internet reading habits."

"USA Today, a brand recognized by business travelers, is tapping into the location-based mobile market with new offerings and incentives on Gowalla."

"The newspaper industry is starting to meet its new bosses – the hedge funds and banks that are moving in as rich family owners and starchy executives move out. Although the objectives of these new owners remain unclear, insiders say the transition period promises more upheaval at newspapers just as they begin to emerge from bankruptcy protection."

"Some specialized Romanian media outlets, such as Academia Caţavencu or Gsp.tv have already been charging users for their web content. But are Romanians willing to pay for online generalist journalism? Although it seems a reasonable solution for journalists, experts consider that the market is not prepared for this change and estimate a big loss of readers for Adevărul Holding, unless other media companies adopt the same measures."

"Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what’s killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business, the company wants to fix it—for commercial as well as civic reasons: if news organizations stop producing great journalism, says one Google executive, the search engine will no longer have interesting content to link to."

"By appearing on stage at the Apple event and by launching an iPad app that the Times wants to monetize in every possible way — an app from which Apple will likely make money as well — the Times is becoming more of a business partner with a company it covers incessantly. And when Apple promoted the Times so visibly before the in-store selling date of the iPad, given the millions of people who visit Apple’s home page each month, it was giving the Times a huge boost."

"Because more people now pluck most of their news from their social networks, blog time is measured in minutes not hours — you're either first or definitive or funniest or most provocative or someone else will have the link that gets tweeted and posted on walls."

"Staff at The Times and The Sunday Times have been informed of plans to introduce a paywall to the newspapers’ websites, and given access to a preview of the new paid-for service. It is understood that subscribers to the print version of the newspaper would be granted access to the websites and Sky customers would be able to add a subscription within their membership fees."

"High-definition cameras and web-enabled mobile handsets wielded by ordinary people have become crucial elements of news coverage in places such as Tehran and Rangoon, where what once was unreported is now recorded and rapidly shared with the world. But as shown by the mobile phone film that a passer-by took of Ian Tomlinson – who died of internal bleeding after being attacked by a police officer – at last year's G20 demonstrations in London, those digital technologies have a part to play in news coverage closer to home."

"The public relations news monitor Meltwater, which is still refusing to pay UK newspapers for crawling their websites, has now been blocked from indexing Times Online, the most serious of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers. The news site, which is due to go behind a paywall this spring and which had already blocked the NewsNow news monitor in January, enacted the block via the standard robots.txt protocol on Tuesday. It means thousands of Meltwater customers around the world won't be able to inform clients when their company is mentioned in the Times."

"There's a heated turf war going on inside the New York Times over the iPad, pitting print die-hards against people focused on the Times' digital future. The outcome will determine pricing for some marquee content on Apple's tablet."

"The bad news for Murdoch is that it truly confounds him — keeps him up at night. It’s a nuisance he can’t shake. It confounded him when he bought it (the original plan was to buy a gaming company, but then he got talked into MySpace), telling people (anyway, he told me) he was in the “stalking business.” Then, his wife Wendi’s interest in the company meant he had to hear about it all the time, which bored him, and, worse, she was constantly traveling in her various positions with MySpace (Murdoch himself was never sure what she did), leaving him at home with the children (quite a reversal in his historical marital role). Perhaps most unnerving were the constant rumors — which he had to embarrassingly discuss with his PR people — that Wendi was having an affair with DeWolfe.

"This new generation of digital magazines, if and when they happen, should regard themselves as home-pages, or bases from which their readers can make excursions into the web. They are somewhere to focus a particular interest, to provide relevant material, and signposts to exploration. They’re also a place to return to later on."

"Last week, Google Reader accounted for .01% of upstream visits to News and Media websites, about the same level as a year ago. Google News accounted for 1.39% of visits and Facebook 3.52%."

"We will end up with one and a half cities in America — Washington, D.C., and American Idol. We will all live in Washington, D.C., where the conversation is a droning, never advancing, debate between "conservatives" and "liberals." We will not read about newlyweds. We will not read about the death of salesmen. We will not read about prize Holsteins or new novels. We are a nation dismantling the structures of intellectual property and all critical apparatus. We are without professional book reviewers and art critics and essays about what it might mean that our local newspaper has died. We are a nation of Amazon reader responses (Moby Dick is "not a really good piece of fiction" — Feb. 14, 2009, by Donald J. Bingle, Saint Charles, Ill. — two stars out of five). We are without obituaries, but the famous will achieve immortality by a Wikipedia entry."

"The Chicago Tribune and other Tribune Co. newspapers plan to utilize as little content from the Associated Press as practical during the week of Nov. 8. The goal, as the papers review costs and needs, is to see whether severing ties with the news cooperative next fall is a viable option, the Chicago-based media company confirmed Monday. The trial is scheduled to be conducted almost 13 months after Tribune Co. gave the AP a required two-year warning that it might drop the news service, effective Oct. 15, 2010."