• by Steve Outing

    This Thursday, 50 newspaper company CEOs met in a closed-door “Crisis Summit” at the American Press Institute (Reston, Virginia). With no publicly available recordings of the proceedings, we don’t have much information, though API staff produced a written summary. Also, one of the participants, Gazette Communications CEO Chuck Peters, posted to Twitter through the day […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, the expression goes. It seems that’s happening with newspapers in some parts of the U.S. that are hard-hit by the mortgage crisis, though they’re not having to “make” lemonade as much as it’s being made for them.
    According to this report from Washington City Paper, many newspaper classifieds sections […]

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