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/ 3 December 2009
Google has offered publishers a way to attract paying subscribers without having to remove their content from Google News search results.
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/ 25 November 2009
The Washington Post is closing its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York as it retrenches to focus on news in the capital.
Rupert Murdoch has dangled a lifeline to the struggling newspaper industry by declaring his titles will start charging for online content.
Talks between the Boston Globe and its unions to prevent the newspaper from shutting stopped early on Monday morning after a midnight deadline.
Warren Buffett is fond of newspapers but the investor warned shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway that the reeling industry may never recover.
More than a half-a-dozen newspapers in the United States and Europe have gone "web only" in the past year in a bid to stave off bankruptcy.
If faith is the oxygen of a young state, faith in a viable future, there is very little oxygen in Kenya right now.
Zimbabweans will soon be able to pick an independent daily newsÂpaper alongside state-run dailies <i>The Herald</i> and <i>The Chronicle</i>.
Uganda’s editors are making stories about development accessible, writes Richard M Kavuma.
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/ 25 February 2009
San Francisco may lose its main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, as owner Hearst cuts a ”significant” number of jobs.
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/ 24 February 2009
With the four owners of 33 US daily newspapers seeking bankruptcy protection in the past two-and-a-half months, even more upheavals loom.
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/ 15 February 2009
The fate of US newspapers is in the news as journalists, editors, bloggers, media pundits and concerned citizens debate the future of the industry.
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/ 23 January 2009
Assailants beat a Sri Lanka newspaper editor and smashed his car as he drove to work on Friday, colleagues said.
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/ 20 January 2009
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim on Monday agreed to provide the cash-strapped New York Times Company a -million loan.
The cash-strapped New York Times on Monday for the first time opened its editorial holy of holies, the front page, to advertising.
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/ 15 December 2008
The editor of the Cape Times, Tyrone August, has resigned following an apparent dispute with management of the Independent group of newspapers.
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/ 17 November 2008
More than 60 Sudanese journalists and newspaper staff were detained on Monday at a rare public protest against media censorship.
Zimbabwe’s economic catastrophe is plunging the country into an ”information dark age”, according to media analysts.
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/ 10 September 2008
Google is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years.
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/ 5 September 2008
State-owned transport group Transnet said on Friday it has lodged a formal complaint with the press ombudsman against the Sunday Times.
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/ 2 September 2008
Britain’s Observer has apologised for a ”misleading” article about dramatic images apparently of a ”lost” Brazilian tribe.
In a major strike for our independence, M&G Media has bought back the Mail & Guardian Online from MWeb, which has owned a stake since 1995.
The talk in US newsrooms is all about redundancies. Mark Pinsky tells of how he lost his job.
Attackers ransacked the offices of two independent Senegalese newspapers at the weekend, editors said on Monday.
The African National Congress has rejected media reports that it has plans to establish its own daily newspaper.
Twenty-four-hour news channels are like soap operas, every time you tune in, the characters are in a holding pattern, awaiting something dramatic.
England captain Paul Collingwood risked pitching cricket into one of its most serious crises in years, newspapers said on Thursday.
Google’s chief executive said this week that the internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service will aid newspapers.
Anton Harber, co-founder of <i>The Weekly Mail</i>, now the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, answers 10 questions as the <i>M&G</i> celebrates 20 years.
The Christian Science Monitor celebrates 100 years as a newspaper at its stall on the Cape Town Book Fair.
Zimbabwe has imposed an import duty on the foreign press following concerns by President Robert Mugabe’s government over ”hostile foreign newspapers coming into Zimbabwe”.
A series of anonymous letters from employees and former employees of daily newspaper <i>Beeld</i> to the board of its holding company, Media24, has accused Beeld management of "serious corruption".