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There is one corner of the newspaper industry where circulation is rising, ad revenue is growing, and the Internet bears no relation to the grim reaper: weekly community newspapers. "My display advertising grows 10% a year," says Michael Schenkler, publisher of the independently owned Queens Tribune. "The content in the community newspaper is not available on TV or the Internet." Now News Corp. is...

Russian news agency RIA Novosti will be entering the print media segment with the launch of an English-language weekly newspaper on Friday, the agency's editor-in-chief said on Thursday. The Moscow News, one of Russia's oldest English language periodicals, will now be relaunched in a new version, with considerable changes in both content and design. "The project to create a new version of the...

Malaysia on Saturday formally opened an office of its official news agency Bernama in India. “India’s ecomonic growth is being keenly followed by the developing world and Bernama hopes to catch first-hand the country’s unfolding success stories,” Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidir said during the launch of the news agency’s office in Kuala Lampur. Union Science and...

Last week, Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, the publisher of America’s most prestigious newspaper, told Haaretz, the Tel Aviv-based daily newspaper, that it is entirely possible that the New York Times might soon no longer be published on paper. “I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either," he told Haaretz in a rare interview. "The...

Ranchi/Calcutta, Feb. 9: “Negotiations are in an advanced stage” is the only comment that stakeholders were willing to make today. But the buzz is that Jharkhand’s leading newspaper, Prabhat Khabar, is all set to change hands. Unconfirmed reports put the UP-based Jagran group and MP-based Dainik Bhaskar group, the latter also the publishers of the English daily DNA (Daily News & Analysis) in...

Ifra’s editors have launched a seven-part “Future Press” series in ‘newspaper techniques’ magazine examining the technology’s latest developments. The series, which starts this month with a detailed report on the prospects for digital newspaper presses, anticipates the continued essential role of presses and printing in the production of paged media in general and newspapers in particular, Twenty...

For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The world's oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace. The PoIT, which began in 1645, published its last print issue on Dec. 29 but is continuing on the Internet. 9Sven Nackstrant/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) The...

The Independent needed to restructure its journalistic operations because they were designed 20 years ago, its editor-in-chief, Simon Kelner, said today. The paper and its sister title the Independent on Sunday are seeking 20 staff redundancies, and will award staff a 3.5% agreed pay rise as part of a restructuring process that could see the news operations of both papers merge. "Like every other...

In a windowless office in central Bangalore, dozens of employees are arriving to work on the night shift. They are journalists employed by the world's biggest news agency, Reuters. Their job is to cover US financial news. And they are working overnight so that they can report company news live as it happens on the New York Stock Exchange - from India. Cost savings But why in the world is Reuters...

Sweden's Post och Inrikes Tidningar, regarded as the world's oldest newspaper though it had actually become a government bulletin, has suspended publication to become available only on the Internet. Founded in 1645 by Queen Christina, the Post och Inrikes Tidningar (PoIT), or Post and Domestic Newspapers, was a staple for Swedish readers throughout the late 17th and 18th centuries. But its...