"The results reflected the continuing struggles of print advertising throughout the industry, as marketers and readers continue to migrate online."

"When I started in photography, Kodak was the trusted source. (Sound familiar, newspaper people?) We might flirt with funky European Agfa and exotic Asian Fuji, but when it was time to get serious, it was Kodak Tri-X and Kodak paper and Kodak Dektol. In a digital world, Kodak's brand means little. And if you think your newspaper's brand is a huge asset, you probably need to get out and talk to some young people now and then."

"Kostenpflichtige iPad-Ausgaben sollten die Zeitungen retten, doch die Verkäufe sind rückläufig"

"My opinion about iPad-based magazines is that they run counter to how people use tablets today and, unless something changes, will remain at odds with the way people will use tablets as the medium matures. They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms without really understanding the platforms at all. The fact of the matter is that the mode of reading that a magazine represents is a mode that people are decreasingly interested in, that is making less and less sense as we forge further into this century, and that makes almost no sense on a tablet."

"...the sinking numbers in single copy digital sales suggest consumer dissatisfaction with either the apps or the distribution process or both."

"USA Today, the nation's second largest newspaper, is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28-year history as it de-emphasizes its print edition and ramps up its effort to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices. The makeover outlined Thursday will result in about 130 layoffs this fall, USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke told The Associated Press. That translates into a 9 percent reduction in USA Today's work force of 1,500 employees."

""It's generating so many impressions, and we have such advertising demand for this that it would be a very poor business decision right now to put up a pay wall," said David Hunke, president and publisher of USA Today. "

"Is This The Future For Magazine Publishing? I hope not. I actually think it’s a huge step backwards and I think the wrong people are working on the problem – just like the wrong people were working on the web problem back in the day. Sure, we corrected course and we’re seeing the web done correctly more and more these days – but can the magazine publishing industry afford to get this wrong for any amount of time? Once could argue that the internet is quickly making their industry irrelevant. By the time an article is published in Time, I’ve read six or seven different takes on the same story on the web well before it hits the newsstands. I don’t think that’s a unique or new insight. But now you want me to download 500MB a month just so some print designer can have pixel perfect layouts with custom fonts?"

"From the newsroom of The New York Times."

"Andreessen asked me if TechCrunch is working on an iPad app or planning on putting up a paywall. I gave him a blank stare. He laughed and noted that none of the newer Web publications (..) are either. “”All the new companies are not spending a nanosecond on the iPad or thinking of ways to charge for content. The older companies, that is all they are thinking about."

"Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the iPad will transform the news business or do nothing of the sort. Here’s a roundup of some of the thinking."

"The first and gravest mistake that individuals make believing that infographics are a branch of graphic design or that they have anything to do with illustration. (...) As a second mistake is the fact that many people think that online infographics can be created just by “translating” print pieces to the Web. Unfortunately, this is what is happening in many newsrooms worldwide. That’s the wrong approach because what you usually end with is with a still picture with a bunch of roll-over buttons."

"Optical Character Recognition (OCR), allows your application to create editable Google Documents from high-resolution images containing text (such as faxes or scanned letters)."

"...all this hysteria has nothing to do with saving the news, or saving jobs. Nor is it about saving democracy, which is what the red-in-the-face newspaper lovers always get themselves huffed about, as if newspapers and democracy were inextricably linked. Democracy existed long before newspapers did, and it will survive without them. And plenty of countries that don't have democracy do have newspapers."

"...der Friedhof der Medienbranche. Hier finden Sie nützliches und nutzloses Wissen über Zeitschriften, TV-Sendungen und Internet-Angebote, die es nicht mehr gibt."

"Financial Times editor Lionel Barber predicted that “almost all” news organizations will be charging in a year just because they need to. Meanwhile, former McClatchy news exec Howard Weaver thinks that news orgs should get, oh, say, 10 percent of Google et al’s revenue because they, oh, should. Amazing how news people lose their sense when they talk about news."

"The demise of the news business can be halted, but only if journalists commit to creating real value for consumers and become more involved in setting the course of their companies."

"Like most newspapers, the Star Tribune has experienced a sharp decline in print advertising. Its earnings before interest, taxes and debt payments were about $26 million in 2008, down from about $59 million in 2007 and $115 million in 2004."

"...the industry as a whole still has a lot of work to do if it's prepping for a post-print universe, according to new analysis and estimates by Advertising Age."

"So go ahead, charge for your news content. Your newspaper will be out of business that much faster and you’ll have more time to refine your golf swing."

"The Seattle P-I's parent company, The Hearst Corp., said Friday that it has put the paper up for sale and will stop publishing unless someone buys it in 60 days. If no buyer emerges, the paper would either become a Web-only publication or cease all operations. "We've been on the knife edge all this time," P-I managing editor David McCumber said Friday. "We finally slipped." Economic reasons have forced the state's oldest morning newspaper into a sale, Steven Swartz, president of The Hearst Corp.'s newspaper division, told employees Friday. "One thing is clear: At the end of the sale process, we do not see ourselves publishing in print," Swartz told employees gathered in the newsroom overlooking Elliott Bay."

"KING 5 News has learned that Seattle may soon become a one-newspaper town. Like many newspapers across America, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been struggling to survive. Now, a source close to the deal tells KING 5 that the paper's owner, Hearst Corporation, will announce as soon as Friday that it's putting the P-I up for sale. Under the joint operating agreement between the P-I and The Seattle Times, the P-I must be offered for sale for at least 30 days before it can cease operation."

"With more than $1billion in debt already on the books, only $46million in cash reserves as of October, and no clear way to tap into the capital markets (the company’s debt was recently reduced to junk status), the paper’s future doesn’t look good."

"The fight that counts in 2009 is the one for online eyeballs seeking news and informed comment, not for the passive audience handed a freesheet with the minimum of journalistic merit or public benefit."

"Ich glaube nicht, dass uns der Himmel auf den Kopf fallen wird, wenn es Zeitungen irgendwann nicht mehr geben sollte. Natürlich ist es verdammt traurig, große Institutionen sterben zu sehen, vor allem wenn man mit ansehen muss, wie talentierte und engagierte Menschen ihre Jobs und Verantwortung verlieren. Dennoch glaube ich, dass diese Entwicklung in vielerlei Hinsicht ein fröhlicher Moment für den Journalismus werden kann."

"The Kansas City Kansan, the only news source exclusively devoted to covering Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., will discontinue publishing its printed newspaper. The newspaper’s final issue will be Jan. 10, the Kansan announced in an article this morning on its Web site. After that, it will post its news online at www.kansascitykansan.com. When it does, it will join a small but growing number of daily newspapers that have largely abandoned their print product for an electronic one, including The Christian Science Monitor and The Capital Times in Madison, Wis."