Newspaper
hideA newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page containing columns that express the personal opinions of writers. Supplementary sections may contain advertising, comics, and coupons.
Newspapers are most often published on a daily or weekly basis, and they usually focus on one particular geographic area where most of their readers live. Despite recent setbacks in circulation and profits, newspapers are still the most iconic outlet for news and other types of written journalism.
Features a newspaper may include are:
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News tagged with newspaper
News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report
Nov 23, 2009 |
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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.
Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks
Nov 22, 2009 |
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(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.
Europe's first 'personalised paper' rolls off the presses
Nov 16, 2009 |
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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.
US newspaper ad revenue down nearly 28 percent
Nov 20, 2009 |
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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.
News Corp's Murdoch warns he may block Google
Nov 10, 2009 |
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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.
USA Today tests online edition at colleges
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(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.
Irish student's Wikipedia hoax dupes newspapers
May 07, 2009 |
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An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the world, the Irish Times reported.
Amazon expected to lift wraps on large-screen Kindle
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 04, 2009 |
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Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large-screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks.
The first casualty of war: Study finds news reports match misperception of civilian deaths
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 06, 2009 |
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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 dis ...
US newspaper owners are 'mad as hell'
Apr 08, 2009 |
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US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.
Coming to mobile phones: Wall Street Journal fees
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(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.
Newspaper sites draw 36 percent of Web audience in June
Aug 06, 2009 |
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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.
Study: Newspapers located closer to the Mexican border slant news coverage of immigration
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2009 |
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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 ...
Income slashed, web traffic falls when paper goes online-only
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Researchers from City University London have found that at least 75 percent of revenue can be lost and web traffic can actually fall when a newspaper moves from print and web to web-only.
Murdoch leads charge to get readers to pay online
May 09, 2009 |
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As US newspapers shrivel up and die, an unlikely figure is emerging as their potential savior: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.
