Kevin Slimp: What do you know? I made The Washington Post
Is bigger better? Gannett merger will test whether local news can be saved. The deal raises questions about what’s next
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New Media shares fall on details of $1.4 billion Gannett deal
The biggest publishing merger of the year is starting to look like a bust. Shareholders of New Media Investment Group
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Market Watch: Gannett merger with GateHouse confirmed at $12.06 a share in cash and New Media stock
Gannett Co. Inc. GCI, +3.49% and New Media Investment Group Inc.NEWM, -7.29%, parent company of GateHouse Media Inc., confirmed Monday that they plan to
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Margaret Sullivan: ‘Democracy … is about to die in Youngstown’ with closing of local newspaper
Youngstown, Ohio • Mere moments after the start of the hastily called community forum, the tears started to flow. “Gobsmacked” was
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Saline Courier: Hussman spews false claims that all newspapers are dying
Editorial by Kelly Freudensprung For example: Hussman has said repeatedly that his paper is losing money and that subscribers are
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NiemanLab: When a local team wins a national championship, your daily newspaper will tell you all about it! (Um, 36 hours later)
Cost-cutting by newspaper chains has moved up print deadlines that even the biggest stories can’t make the paper if they
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Newsguru Kevin Slimp, responds to NYT Editor – offers to make a wager
by Kevin Slimp, stateofnewspapers.com So it seems New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet just pronounced most of the newspaper
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NYT Editor: Most newspapers are going to die in next five years
THE HILL BY Joe Concha New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet is predicting that “most local newspapers are going to
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“Paxton folks came in, made the announcement, told ’em to pack their personal stuff up and leave.”
Paxton Media Group buys newspapers in Michigan, Tennessee Paxton Media Group announced Friday it bought the Grand Haven Tribune and
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WBUR Boston: 50 Mass. Newspapers Will Reportedly Consolidate Into 18
The GateHouse newspaper chain will consolidate 50 Massachusetts publications into 18 next week, as the company mulls a possible merger
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