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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 plight of the newspaper industry has caused some papers to shut down, some to reduce days with printed copy or go entirely online.  Tom Mcniff, managing editor of the Ocala Star-Banner, detailed in his paper's Sunday edition the latest way they are cutting costs:  literally cutting the paper.

Starting Monday, the Star-Banner will be a column narrower than in the past.  It is the latest of a "number of significant changes" to the paper in recent months, including a complete redesign of its layout.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Sub-editors are facing a series of cutbacks at the Herald Express, a South West daily newspaper, in the latest of an industry-wide overhaul of newsrooms to reduce costs.

The team of five sub-editors will be reduced to two, Hold the Front Page reports, and administration and sales staffs have left the company.

"Casual staff" has been cut back - at least six community correspondents, who contribute pieces for local news pages, and their sub-editor, have been fired.

The Herald Express has joined other Northcliffe titles on a new server, allowing their copy to be available for sister papers.

Source:  Hold the Front Page

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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.

Foreign journalists and editors often face problems establishing themselves in the United Arab Emirates. 

The government "licenses all new publications and approves editors," in addition to adding pressure and suppressing sensitive stories, making the launch of new papers relatively impossible.  

The National, an Abu Dhabi-based daily, is breaking that mold.  Martin Newland is the only non-Emirati editor-in-chief in the country, the Guardian reports.

Roger Alton, editor of UK daily newspaper The Independent, said in an interview on Sky News Online that he takes responsibilty for the publication's declining economic situation. Alton also sttates that there are no plans to sell the newspaper in the future.

Alton goes on to say that the price increase startegy (from 80p to £1 in September) failed and pushed sales down further. The price rise made The Independent more expensive than other papers in the UK market, such as The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Times.

The Trinity Mirror's innovative workflow overhaul, moving three of its regional newspapers into a single newsroom, has been a "morale booster" for staff in a time when the industry has seen its share of downturns.

The new site at Fort Dunlop is the largest open plan office space outside of London, Journalism.co.uk reports.  As the Weblog has reported, Trinity Mirror completely revamped the approach to newsroom management with the transition.

Several paper manufacturers have reported to Media Bistro that they will not be raising their rates in 2009, giving the financially strapped industry a break in costs.

The high rates of newsprint have contributed to "a wave of downsizing in the beleaguered newspaper industry." 

Two newspapers are to resume printing in Belarus after being forced to publish abroad for several years, according to the Moscow Times. 

Narodnaya Volya and Belorusskaya Niva have been publishing from Russia after government restrictions on the use of state printing plants in 2004 and 2005 "forced many opposition papers to print outside Belarus."

There was no government comment on the announcement made by Narodnaya Volya editor Iosif Seredich.  This decision follows pledges by the European Union to "intensify dialogue with Belarus if it moves to promote democratic values, including press freedom."

Source:  Moscow Times via EJC

The Guardian's Peter Wilby asks the question:  just how many journalists do you need to publish a newspaper?  In today's failing economy, circulation declines, dried up advertising revenue and the transition to new media, can a newspaper staff maintain its numbers?  Is "small," he asks, inevitable?