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US paper Christian Science Monitor stops the presses to focus online

The Christian Science Monitor will be the first major US newspaper to abandon print and focus on publishing online, it announced yesterday.

Google To Digitize Millions of Old Newspaper Pages

On Monday Google detailed new plans to digitize millions of newspaper pages with articles, photographs, and headlines intact so they can be accessed and searched online. 'Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written,' Google said in a blog post. 'It's our goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily.' For example, Google noted the availability of an original article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1969 about the landing on the moon.

Fifty Percent Price Increase for Both Daily Seattle Papers

And next quarter they will wonder why their ad revenue is down. Advertisers aren't dumb - they know circulation will drop.

The horror is getting to Matt Taibbi

Exclusive Q&A with writer Taibbi. Snippet - "If and when I ever get to be Interior Minister, one of my first acts is going to be the putting to death of anyone who thinks God interferes in the outcome of things like sporting events and elections. I'd want to have a giant shark tank built expressly for this purpose. Just throw them in there and then dump a couple of barrels of cow blood in the water..."

God Forbid a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Should Try to Make Peace

Life as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate is not as awash in laurels as you might think. Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) has spent 10 of the last 17 years under house arrest. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei (2005) has been the object of an ongoing campaign by the administration to make him look like a fool.

NY Times to stop charging readers for TimesSelect content

The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end the subscription-only TimesSelect service...

NYTimes.com Most Popular Newspaper Site -- Here Is Top 30

NYTimes.com kept its strong lead in February as the top newspaper Web site, besting competitors across the country in unique audience, page views, and time spent per person on the site, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Rounding out the top five in uniques were USATODAY.com, washingtonpost.com, LATimes.com, and WSJ.com.

Chicago Tribune and LA Times Acquired for $8 billion

Chicago-based Tribune, which spent six months looking for a buyer, chose a deal with a local investor rather than a similar offer from California businessmen Ron Burkle and Eli Broad. The company will take on $8.4 billion in debt to fund the $34-a-share offer. Zell said he will pay down debt by selling the Chicago Cubs baseball team.

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

The rise and fall of the Los Angeles Times. Will someone please invent a new business model for journalism? Good reporting costs money, which fewer and fewer newspapers have.

Newspaper circulation drops nationally

Daily circulation fell 2.8 percent at U.S. newspapers in the six-month period ending in September, an industry group reported Monday, the latest sign of struggle as newspapers try to hold on to paying readers. Sunday circulation fell 3.4 percent in the same period, according to the Newspaper Association of America's calculations of data supplied by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.