December 2006 Archives

Saddam Hussein's execution was front page news around the world and Visual Editors has assembled a gallery selection of Front Pages in a new interactive blog. The gallery archive would like to include more coverage from Asia, Oceania, India, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Please contact directly if you have a front page or inside page spread that will enhance this study gallery. Submissions must be made in PDF format. Thanks in advance. We will update this post as well as we move forward.

RELATED: Please join the discussion about how news Web sites in the U.S, U.K. and Middle East covered the breaking news of Hussein's hanging death. 

The United Nations’ Security Council has publicly condemned any attacks on journalists operating in war zones, and has called on all parties to put an end to violence aimed at the press.

Google announced it was going to expand its newspaper ad program, after the more-than-expected success of its two-month test, working with 100 advertisers and 66 newspapers.

In 1998, the McClatchy Co. bought the Star Tribune for $1.2 billion. Now it’s selling the Star to Avista Capital Partners for a mere $530 million. Something going wrong?

Western editors and newspapers aren't used to seeing their circulation rise anymore, let alone the circulation of all newspapers' circulation. Well, all of Hong Kong's freesheets have registered circulation increases.

Despite the overwhelming importance of television and freesheets, Italian paid-for dailies have put up a good fight, and even grown in the past years.

Nearly two months after the launch of Internet Explorer 7 including an RSS feed feature, Microsoft publicly announced it’s trying to register two RSS-related patents. Not to everybody’s contentment.

A new English-language monthly has created its market in Mexico. Inside Mexico will try to target a readership that’s generally under-represented in the press.

32 journalists died in Iraq in 2006, making it this year’s deadliest State for press. The number of journalists killed on the job is on the rise.

Newspaper publishers News Limited and Fairfax’s discussions with Cricket Australia are locked up over copyright issues for broadcasting. This is the first time a sports governing body is openly challenging newspapers’ “fair use” policy.

Editor & Publisher senior editor Joe Strupp made his selection of the top 10 newspaper industry stories’ for 2006. It won’t really help you sell more newspapers or boost quality, but it’s a good sum-up of the year’s issues. 

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has asked the Chinese government to release 2007 winner of WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom, journalist Shi Tao.

The Moroccan government took serious action by banning the weekly Nichane, due to “offense against Islam.” A highly unusual procedure in an Islamic State that’s usually on the moderate side of religious governments.

Even The New York Times is planning on a tabloid-format newspaper to suit the younger generation’s desires, although “it’s way too early to talk about it,” said executive editor Bill Keller.

Paid-for content in newspapers is a widespread practice, especially in Russia, West Africa and South Africa. Unfortunately, the choice between additional ad revenue and editorial integrity can turn out to be detrimental to journalism.

Metro International, world leader in circulation, is to launch more Irish editions in January. The new editions will be distributed in Cork, Galway and Limerick.

TorStar Corp. is cutting 85 additional jobs, its third series of layoffs in six months. In June, 70 jobs had been trimmed at the Toronto Star’s call centre.

In light of the harsh hurricane weather that’s been hitting the Seattle area, The Seattle Times changed its face to issue a local warning to the population.

This week, between Monday and Wednesday, The New York Times published a total of seven long stories on the front page. Is this part of renewed in-depth investigative reporting? No, it’s simply contest-season.