Sent Out 334 staff, Daily Mail Sees More Gloom Still

Daily Mail and General Trust today reported a 15% fall in revenue and that 334 jobs had gone

All the Quality Dailies in UK suffer circulation drop

The Daily Telegraph's circulation slipped below the 700,000 mark for the first time

Read this Advt, Salute fallen colleagues

A Newsroom's Salute to Its Departed
Newspapers occasionally publish ads congratulating themselves for various achievements. But a most unusual ad appeared last week

Need a week off? You Get it Only Without Pay

USA Today is forcing its staff to take an unpaid week off to help America's second largest newspaper cope with a persisting advertising slump.

Some sunshine for print, if you see it so

PV Harikrishnan of Thatsmalayalam.com, and Sarita Varma of Financial Express, have dug out a hopeful sign each for print media. Feel free to trust or distrust

Contagion spreads: TV journos feel the heat

CBS News Lays Off Dozens in New Round of Staff Cuts
Dozens of employees at CBS News were laid off in recent days amid a new round of budget cuts at the third-place network's news division.Some employees were reassigned and others were demoted in the process. Speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared further layoffs, CBS employees said

Pension indigestion: Reader's Digest UK may go belly up

Don't miss the penultimate paragraph
The future of Reader's Digest magazine in the UK – and the fate of its 135 employees – has been plunged into doubt after a deal to bail out its pension fund fell through.
The magazine's US parent company, Reader's Digest Association (RDA), said UK regulators had not approved a rescue plan to resolve "a longstanding and significant unfunded liability within its UK pension scheme".

"In light of this unusual and unexpected development, RDA has

Apple did not save Adam, may not save newspapers either

Apple's iPad has wow factor but is no rescue act for newspapers

Peter Preston, The Observer, Sunday 31 January 2010
There are two ways of wondering about the wonder of the iPad. One exalts Steve Jobs the creative core of Apple, and swoons a little over his "magical and revolutionary product". It looks great; it dances to the touch of your finger; it simulates the print-reading experience better than anything on the market. .

 My second wondering way is much more