By Claire Cain Miller

Starting a newspaper filled with material from blogs seemed audacious — as did the idea of starting any kind of newspaper in 2009. But Joshua Karp did just that in January. In the end, it didn’t work out.
Mr. Karp, the founder of The Printed Blog, a Chicago start-up that we wrote about [...]

By Roy Greenslade
Who do you think said this yesterday?
“I can see the day, maybe 20 years away, where you don’t actually have paper and ink and printing presses. I think it will take a long time and I think it’s a generational thing that is happening. But there’s no doubt that younger people are not [...]

Publications That Push the Boundaries of the Print Medium
By ANDREW LOSOWSKY | Special to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“When Aspen arrives, you don’t just read it — you hear it, hang it, feel it, fly it, project it, even sniff it.”
Such was the sales pitch in 1965 for Aspen magazine, probably the world’s first example [...]

By RUSSELL ADAMS
New York Times Co. posted a steep first-quarter loss amid worse-than-expected advertising results, elevating pressure on the publisher to cut more costs.
The company, which publishes the Boston Globe as well as the New York Times, reported a 27% slide in advertising revenue and said it is exploring alternative business models for its Web [...]

Thinking about his doomed plan to build a pay wall around newspapers.
By Jack Shafer

Alan Mutter spun a memorable catchphrase earlier this year when he called publishers’ decision to distribute content on the Web for free their “Original Sin.”
In Mutter’s view, feeding the masses content at no charge for the last 15 years has helped to [...]

By Jason
PRWeek announced a reorganization of its editorial today, which will replace the weekly paper edition with a digital version. It appears they are pulling all content back behind the subscription wall in response to the difficult economy. The trade pub began releasing some items for free in 2004, followed by the launch of a [...]

By Martin Langeveld

By Jeff Jarvis

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. They need to hear a new message, a blunt message from the outside. Here’s the speech I think they should hear:
You blew it.
You’ve [...]

Ten experts share their ideas for reinventing the print newspaper
By Mary Lynn F. Jones
Try to count the number of times a death knell has sounded for the print newspaper, and you’ll quickly run out of fingers. Despite continued rumors of its impending demise, print still accounts for the overwhelming majority of revenue at most newspaper [...]