http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Newspaper executives and editors gathered in India from around the world Tuesday heard calls to seek more payment for their content on the Internet as they decried their industry's sharply falling advertising revenues. http://www.physorg.com/news178896473.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:28:15 EST news178896473 Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news178183236.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:21:30 EST news178183236 (AP) -- While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies. http://www.physorg.com/news178121706.html Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:40:01 EST news178121706 US newspaper advertising revenue fell by nearly 28 percent in the third quarter, continuing a slide which has led to layoffs, bankruptcies and the closure of several dailies. http://www.physorg.com/news177953266.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:03 EST news177953266 (AP) -- Penn State, Indiana and Missouri are the first schools to participate in a USA Today initiative meant to test how students respond to electronic versions of printed newspapers. http://www.physorg.com/news177623363.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:50:14 EST news177623363 Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news177604238.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:40:07 EST news177604238 Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content. http://www.physorg.com/news177056010.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:14:01 EST news177056010 Researchers reporting in BioMed Central's open access journal Conflict and Health found that the discrepancy in media reporting of casualty numbers in the Iraq conflict can potentially misinform the public and contribute to distorted perceptions and gross underestimates of the number of civilians killed in the armed conflict. http://www.physorg.com/news176702909.html Other Sciences Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:30:01 EST news176702909 (AP) -- Britain's press watchdog said Monday it had received a record 21,000 complaints about a newspaper column on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately after critics used Twitter to brand the article homophobic and insensitive. http://www.physorg.com/news175178353.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:00:02 EST news175178353 Two young German entrepreneurs presented what they described as a Europe-wide first on Tuesday: a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 8:00 am. http://www.physorg.com/news174661210.html Technology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:06 EST news174661210 (AP) -- Internet advertising in the United States slipped 5 percent in the second quarter as the recession extended the first slump in online marketing since 2002. http://www.physorg.com/news173964359.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:30:49 EST news173964359 (AP) -- The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition. http://www.physorg.com/news172252616.html Technology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:10:01 EST news172252616 (AP) -- After cutting its newsroom by half because of the recession and sagging advertising revenue, The Hartford Courant found a new source for news - its competition - and found itself in a plagiarism scandal. http://www.physorg.com/news171295923.html Technology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:30:03 EST news171295923 (AP) -- Two Web sites that rely on a mix of experts and amateur reporters to cover community news are joining forces in a deal announced Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171096475.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:00:01 EST news171096475 As US newspaper publishers mull charging readers on the Web, a Pennsylvania daily announced plans on Monday to put some content behind a pay wall. http://www.physorg.com/news170960994.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:20:03 EST news170960994 (AP) -- Italy's antitrust watchdog is investigating allegations that Google Italy is discriminating against newspapers that don't want their content linked on Google's news site by dropping them from its search engine. http://www.physorg.com/news170604714.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:40:01 EST news170604714 If you're looking for reliable information, then you won't necessarily find it in the newspaper. According to Dr. Susan Glover from the University of California in the US, public information from both informal and written sources, like newspapers, leads entrepreneurs astray. In a study just published online in Springer's journal Human Ecology, Dr. Glover took as an example how newspaper propaganda shaped the ore foraging strategies of the late nineteenth century Colorado silver prospectors. http://www.physorg.com/news170504098.html Other Sciences Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:40:01 EST news170504098 Media giant News Corp. is holding talks with other newspaper publishers on forming a consortium that would charge for news online and on portable devices, The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news170081834.html Technology Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:20:01 EST news170081834 News International, the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's media giant News Corporation, said Thursday it planned to shut thelondonpaper, the group's loss-making freesheet for London commuters. http://www.physorg.com/news169993909.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:00:01 EST news169993909 (AP) -- The writers' grievances came in the form of angry letters, carried over bumpy rural roads to the newspaper office serving the Amish community. http://www.physorg.com/news169739253.html Technology Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:10:21 EST news169739253 (AP) -- Newspapers are hurting all over the United States, but the pain is less severe at small publications like The Blackshear Times in Georgia. http://www.physorg.com/news169052837.html Technology Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:30:01 EST news169052837 Newspaper Web sites attracted 70.3 million unique visitors in June, representing about 36 percent of all Internet users, according to a new Nielsen Online study commissioned by an industry trade group. http://www.physorg.com/news168717315.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:00:03 EST news168717315 A new study released by Rice University in Houston finds that California newspapers located closer to the border of Mexico routinely provide a more negative slant on immigration in general news reporting and on their opinion pages than the state's newspapers located further away from the border. http://www.physorg.com/news167998400.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:30:02 EST news167998400 The Ann Arbor News published its final edition on Thursday, the latest US newspaper to abandon print for an online future. http://www.physorg.com/news167584786.html Technology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:20:01 EST news167584786 (PhysOrg.com) -- Historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen American and British newspapers since they started are now available electronically. Donald MacQueen from Uppsala University, Sweden, has carried out the first comprehensive study that makes use of this resource in order to track changes in language usage, a method that makes it possible to attain an entirely new degree of precision in dating. http://www.physorg.com/news165241746.html Other Sciences Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:29:55 EST news165241746 (AP) -- A startup planning to sell news online thinks newspaper and magazines will be able to get money from about 10 percent of their Internet readers. http://www.physorg.com/news165069189.html Technology Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:48 EST news165069189 The ways we deal with death are finding a new life online, according to research being published by a Kansas State University journalism professor and her colleague. http://www.physorg.com/news164384691.html Other Sciences Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:25:10 EST news164384691 US newspaper advertising revenue fell more than 28 percent in the first quarter of the year with both print and online posting declines, according to the Newspaper Association of America. http://www.physorg.com/news163092226.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:25:33 EST news163092226 News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday that the future of newspapers is digital, but it may be 10 to 15 years before readers go fully electronic. http://www.physorg.com/news162753618.html Technology Thu, 28 May 2009 18:21:18 EST news162753618 A US journalism institute and four entrepreneurs announced Wednesday they have joined forces in a Silicon Valley-based venture called CircLabs aimed at financing online news. http://www.physorg.com/news162672010.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 19:40:35 EST news162672010