ABOVE: Don Surber (left), Brad McElhinny (right) Shorter Don “Jim Bob” Surber, The Charlztun Daly Mial: It’s Now The United States of Audrey, Jr. While watching a movie about a man-eating plant, it occurred to me that the best way for the United States...

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Under the heading "necessity is the mother of invention," investigative reporting nonprofits have popped up like journalists at a magazine-sponsored soiree offering free hors d’oeuvres and alcohol.   Using industry-renowned editors and staffers, the nonprofits take on in-depth inves...

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Phone Hacking Scandal Engulfs More British Newspapers “In a dramatic turn to the scandal, former journalists at the Mirror group said they witnessed phone hacking at their newspapers and that the practice was ‘endemic’. So far, the allegations had clouded newspapers of the News Internationa...

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A sign of the Times? Perhaps. The New York Times reported a second quarter net loss of $119.7 million for 2011. The same quarter last year turned in a profit of $60.8 million. Online subscriptions are up, the paper says. Since there are no LY figures for online subscriptions, it couldn’t be ...

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I’ve tagged these links for possible show topics/background notes on July 21st: Editor & Publisher: The Smart and Sexy Story of Newspapers – Presenting the PR piece…er, article 230;.witho ut comment. The juiciest paragraph? "The NAA (Newspaper Association of Ame...

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Are you unsure of your role in life? Do you feel like you don’t know the real you? If you answered yes to these questions, there’s a good chance you’re a newspaper in need of Dr. Phil’s couch.   It wouldn’t be difficult to convince newspapers that identity crises esca...

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Even with the economy showing signs of recovery, sales of newspaper advertising are still largely down across the industry -- both in print and online. Publishers have been frantically seeking ways to reverse that trend and generate sales, with much hope being placed in the digital realm. But with a...

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Big Fat Whale creator Brian McFadden will be the commissioned cartoonist in the New York Times’ Week in Review section starting Sunday. According to Matt Bors Brian will the featured cartoonist for “a few months” and before the space is rotated to other cartoonists. &#...

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Some have argued that newspapers could bolster print sales by setting up an online paywall. However, Business Insider reported that The Times of London suffered this year the largest yearly fall in circulation of any non-tabloid British paper, despite its paywall. Editor & Publisher report...

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What if newspaper executives thought like Yahoo! and Google? Kirk MacDonald, executive vice president of The Denver Post, thinks it could make a big difference in the way a newspaper executes its digital offerings. "Think like a digital company would. Look very closely at what Yahoo!, MSN, and ...

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