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Mark S. Luckie has graphed an interactive map detailing American newspapers using YouTube and linking to each webpage.

Newspapers with YouTube pages range from Hawaii's Honolulu Advertiser to Illinois' Chicago Tribune to the Washington Post, and include papers in 41 states.

The pages include news videos and other online features for subscribers and vistors.

Blogger Andy Dickinson has uploaded a similar map of newspapers in the United Kingdom.

Source: 10,000 Words via IFRA

The Financial Times' Ben Fenton muses on the "unpalatable" prospects for newspapers, some radical, that signifies that the industry is "embracing changes that would once have been unthinkable."

According to Roger Ebert, newspapers are declining in quality and becoming less like "town criers" and more like "neighborhood gossip."  Ebert believes the latest evidence of this trend came this week when the Associated Press imposed a 500-word limit on all entertainment interviews.

The word limit applies to all reviews, interviews, news stories, trend pieces and "thinkers," according to Ebert.

Former editor of the Daily Mirror Piers Morgan said that all national newspapers will be free within 10 years, and his paper should be the kick-off to the transition, according to Press Gazette.

One month after its initial trial period, a meeting of about 30 editors will be held in Atlanta to hear about CNN's wire service.

CNN has made plans to broaden its service to provide coverage of national, international and possibly local events "on a smaller scale and at a lower cost" than the Associated Press, according to Editor and Publisher.

In 24-hour news cycle, the public becomes aware of news items instantaneously.  At the same time, within the context of 24-hour news, it become increasing difficult to protect those who need to remain out of the spotlight.

Recently, the focus has been on war correspondents for news organizations - those who get kidnapped in areas such as Somalia and Afghanistan.  After an abduction, most news organizations request an embargo on all information out of a given country if one of their staff has been kidnapped, as means of protection.

According to Press Gazette, under a deal signed today, the Independent titles are relocating to share offices with the publishers of the Daily Mail in the early part of 2009.  The Independent titles will share back office functions with the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Metro and Evening Standard.

A statement released by IN&M stated that, "The two groups' editorial, management and commercial operations will remain entirely separate. The Independent and Independent on Sunday will remain under the full ownership of INM."

A World Internet Project-International Report 2009, released by the Macau Internet Project, reveals that even though people may have increasing trust in online sources, a "surprisingly high" amount of users find that only half or less of the information found on the Web is reliable. Meanwhile, almost half of users from around the globe believe that offline newspapers are dependable sources, Macau Daily Times reports.

Trinity Mirror has announced that the Liverpool Daily Post will undergo a major restructuring.  According to the paper's website they are launching a "revolutionary new editorial operating model by streamlining its production process to create a centralized hub, providing up-to-the-minute online content for its websites and writing and producing all its Merseyside daily and weekly newspaper titles."

The Post will also stop publishing its Saturday edition, making it a Monday to Friday morning paper, although its website will remain a seven-day-a-week operation.

The Women's Institute is campaigning to prevent sex ads, which "could involve trafficked women," from local newspapers in the UK, Hold the Front Page is reporting.

The WI said it would "name and shame" newspaper publishers that run such ads, and are planning to collate members' findings for the campaign.  Members will be looking for "key phrases" in sex ads, and will send letters to editors.

The Newspaper Society vowed to work with the government to "issue guidance to the local press."  Several groups, including Newsquest and MEN Media, have stopped carrying the ads.

Source:  Hold the Front Page

Scotland houses an abandoned aerodrome, home to seven million issues of newspapers.  

The warehouse stocks papers that can be seen on back-issue-newspaper.co.uk. The company  has been running for five years and has sold about 30,000 back editions of UK and Irish national and regional newspaper titles each year.

The UK's daily Independent costs its publisher, Dublin-based Independent News & Media a "small fortune" every year, The Evening Standard's Roy Greenslade writes, and is likely to fail.

The way to save the paper is by taking a "revolutionary" step--going entirely online.

Foregoing all of its newsprint editions would be following the paper's tradition of "taking risks," according to Greenslade, and would change the face of newspapers in the UK.

With an impending closure of two local newspapers, seven state legislators have written to state Economic Development Commissioner Joan McDonald for a meeting to determine how to save them, The Hartford Courant reports.

The all-Democratic delegations from Bristol and New Britain are trying to save the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press, who will be shut down soon after Christmas if a buyer is not found.

The Journal Register Co. is faced with a "huge advertising decline at papers nationwide" and "slumping" state and national economics, and is seeking new ownership of the titles.

A letter from the legislators said that neither community could "afford the loss of jobs that these closures would mean."

Source:  Hartford Courant

The Indian Readership Survey, a sampling of trends in newspapers in the Himachal state, demonstrates that a differing family structure, increase in female readership and youth favoring the Hindi language over English are all factors in the country's media industry.

Total readership is down in the Himachal state by nearly 700,000.  Both Hindi and English dailies have lost readers, 11,000 and 49,000, respectively, since the last survey, according to the report.

After reports surfaced that Dutch free daily, Spits, was selling editorial space, the media in the Netherlands was outraged.  

According to Newspaper Innovation, today another paper that has been selling editorial space, De Pers has been criticized for the almost indiscernible line between their advertising and editorial content.

The New York Times is boasting a "successful" advertising campaign on social networking site Facebook, increasing their number of "fans" following the presidential election, according to the Nieman Journalism Lab.

An internal memo from Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy said that the goals of the campaign were to increase the company's number of Facebook fans, "raise awareness of NYTimes.com as an interactive news center, and engage the Facebook community in a conversation about the election outcome."

Hungary's leading daily newspaper, Népszabadság, has announced plans to launch a Sunday edition of the paper on March 1, 2009, according to the paper's website.

Népszabadság will be the first paper in Hungary to launch a Sunday edition.

The idea of an ombudsman, or reader's editor, is not new, but its practice is still relatively infrequent.  Journalism.co.uk discussed with Siobhan Butterworth, The Guardian's ombudsman, why the post is "more important than ever" in the web environment.

There are an increasing number of articles are published straight to the Web.  In fact, there are 10 times as many articles online than there are in print.

Reader complaints are in large supply. Butterworth dealt with 23,000 corrections and complaints via email, telephone and fax in 2007.  The Press Complaints Commission received 10,000 communications last year.