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Busy Week For Daily Newspaper Bad News…

Headlines on the declining newspaper industry this week (and a few old ones from prior weeks…)
• AP is ramping up its threats to shut out Google from its content. This just assures acceleration in the decline of the dailies and the AP as a content provider on the web. Why is it so hard for [...]

And Down The Stretch They Come; Minneapolis & Chicago Neck and Neck As To Which Will Lose Daily First

As exciting as any horse race you’d ever see at Churchill Downs or Saratoga, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Tribune Co. are neck and neck in the much-hyped D.I.D. (Daily Insolvency Derby). The old-time Norris Division/’Black & Blue’ NFC Central rivals Chicago and Minneapolis have rounded the 4th turn and are heading down the stretch [...]