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Since 2008, more than 166 newspapers in the United States have closed down or stopped publishing a print edition, according to Paper Cuts , SFN's Million Dollar Strategies for Newspaper Companies reported . More than 39 titles did so in 2008, and the number rose to 109 in 2009.

SFN report: More than 166 U.S. newspapers have closed or stopped

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/inside-five-newsrooms-that-hl-mencken-wouldnt-recognize/

Inside five newsrooms that H.L. Mencken wouldn’t recognize » Nie

On this Friday before the long weekend, we’ve put together five video tours of newsrooms that are new, innovative, or otherwise noteworthy. The first, above, is one I shot during a visit to Talking Points Memo earlier this month.

Making media social: news as user experience

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/croyal/200905/1723/

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New York Times R&D Group: Newspaper 2.0 on Vimeo

Death-notice price gouging: Why?

Sure, newspapers are hard up, but exploiting bereaved families with exorbitantly priced death notices seems to be a distasteful and strategically inept way to try to make ends meet. I stumbled across the problem this week when I tried to buy a death notice in my local paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, which proposed charging $450 for the one-day run of a crappy-looking, 182-word death notice.

Arianna Huffington and Tom Curley: Journalism biz models for fut

Charlie Rose video interview with Arianna Huffington of Huffingtonpost.com and Tom Curley of the Associated Press.

MediaShift Idea Lab . 10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should U

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/03/10-reasons-why-news-organizations-should-use-linked-data073.html

On a news organization's list of priorities, publishing articles as "linked data" probably comes slightly above remembering to turn the computer monitors off in the evening, and slightly below getting a new coffee machine. It shouldn't, and I'll share 10 reasons why.

EBay Founder Omidyar To Launch Local News Service | paidContent

Billionaire eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) founder Pierre Omidyar is entering the local news business.

http://paidcontent.org/2009/11/19/419-ebay-founder-omidyar-to-launch-local-news-service/

http://paidcontent.org/2010/02/15/419-video-education-of-the-entrepreneurial-journalist/

Last Friday at the Paley Center in NYC, at the Carnegie Journalism Educators Summit , I spoke on a panel on entrepreneurial journalism. Among the main points brought up were the skills that needed to be taught to j-students these days changes in the way the courses are structured at these schools and the future of entrepreneurship in media, especially news business.

Video: Education of the Entrepreneurial Journalist | paidContent

RMG to Brand 850 Screens as the NYTimes.com Today Network - NYTi

No solution to newspaper problems? Hah!: SteveOuting.com

I must say, I’ve never felt this pessimistic about the future of newspaper companies. ( Thanks, API for suggesting a suicidal strategy to the industry .) Sure, I’ve been uncertain for a LONG time that newspaper companies could make a graceful transition into the digital age, but I’d felt that when things got bad enough for the industry, newspaper executives would be forced to try some of the “radical” ideas that new-media pundits (including me) espouse, rather than crouch into a defensive position as seems to be happening. No longer do I have much confidence that newspaper CEOs and publishers will do the right thing, but there are still plenty of obvious things (well, apparently not obvious to many tradition-bound, unyielding newspaper executives) that they could do to save their companies:

http://steveouting.com/2009/06/11/no-solution-to-newspaper-problems-hah/

Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism a

April 6th, 2009 Drop what you’re doing and take 30 minutes to listen to Brooke Gladstone’s interview with Lee Rainie for the latest edition of On the Media . The two discuss the results of the Pew Center’ s latest survey on the future of the Internet.

http://www.journalism20.com/blog/2009/04/06/the-future-of-journalism-depends-on-the-future-on-the-internet/

Report Proposes New Steps to Support Quality Public Affairs Repo

The speech the NAA should hear « BuzzMachine

The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they’re preaching up at their own choir loft with angry , self-righteous fire and brimstone about their plight.

With newspapers in a free fall, what should journalists do? | ds

Xark!: The "Lack of Vision" thing? Well, here's a hopeful vision

So you're on an ocean liner and it sinks. Step No. 1 is: Tread water.

In this past fall's Web 2.0 Summit conference , Mark Pincus, CEO of social gaming startup Zynga , declared Web 3.0 the "app economy" - a web in which people use apps to consume and share things, the way we do using Facebook and the iPhone .