30 Minute long BBC Radio 4 show looking at how … "Many of the world's best-known business newspapers and magazines are being painfully squeezed by the recession and the rise of rival media. In London and New York, Peter Day finds out why it matters... and how they are going about fighting for survival." Via Mr Murphy.

Newspapers in the US are reporting profits from the last quarter. Small profits in single figures. "It’s a fragile stability. One big question for all publishers: where do we go from here?" Nieman investigate what these institutions will have to do to remain profitable.

Jeff Jarvis on entrepreneurial news coverage.

The Johnson Banks Thought for the Week (13.01.10). "Blogs can showcase, discuss and dissect new ideas weeks, even months before journals. In the next few years we’ll see if the Kindle will put a torch to those paperbacks that gather dust on our shelves."

"As a means of conveying news in a timely way, paper and ink are less in vogue, eclipsed by the power, efficiency and technological elegance of the Internet" — John Kerry in the Huffington Post

iA: "While everybody is chatting about the future of news, we’re shaping it. Currently, we’re working with the Italian magazine Internazionale, who is trying to figure out where to move with their website. As only an advanced process can result in advanced results, Internazionale agreed to open up the design process and let us talk about it on our website."

Serial newspaper designer Mario Garcia reviews the importance of typographic contrast in graphic design. Garcia uses Tyler Thompson's airline boarding passes as an example of a measured and subtle utilisation of bold type that provides necessary contrast between elements of text.

C.W. Anderson of the Nieman Journalism Lab dusts off his crystal ball and foretells 2010 in all its glory.

Micro-payments dismissed in favour of charging for 24-hour access to day's edition of the paper.

Cody Brown: "News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible… we now have the technology to make this ideal more than a faith based abstraction… public can be counted on to share and disseminate its own news"

Since The Telegraph's highly publicised move to a new newsroom in Victoria nearly 18-months ago its senior editors haven't been shy in espousing the philosophy and the practicalities behind the paper's integrated web and newspaper approach.

The Web’s largest newsroom: Journalists collaborate to curate the news. Winner of the first Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism.

Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve) assesses the health of mainstream media. Chronic verging on fatal.

Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review (formerly of the WSJ) gives a grim assessment of how the Newspaper industry is performing.

Newspaper Association of America's statistics for Total Paid Circulation.

Newspaper Association of America's statistics for Advertising Expenditures.

Nieman Journalism Lab's Joshua Benton tells of Argentina's seemingly corrupt journalistic element. Interesting read.

Information Architects developed a pretty tight concept around the idea of usability, readability and cross media connection in their recent unsuccessful bid to redesign the Switzerland's Tages Anzeiger Newspaper.

Based at Harvard University. Aiming for the Future of Journalism.

By the brilliant Danny Sullivan… "As the rhetoric over how Google “rips-off” newspapers, magazines and other print publishers continues, a thought occurred to me this weekend. Perhaps Google should charge publications whose reporters tap into the service to research their stories?"

Clay Shirky articulates and develops strategies for funding local reporting.

The Nieman Journalism Lab reports on a talk given by Internet thinker Prof. Clay Shirky at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers. Sound bytes. Great read/listen.

The Guardian reports that Journalism online promises to get 10% of web readers paying for content, which it says will provide millions in new revenue or struggling newspapers. Hmmm. Skeptical to say the least.

Danny Sullivan spells out to Newspaper publishers that, contrary to their warped beliefs, Google are actually doing them a favour!

The Newspaper Innovation weblog (by Piet Bakker) is a place where most information on free daily newspapers can be found. Great for scholars, students and people working in publishing and journalism.

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