Net acquisitions by newspapers

Examples of newspapers companies in the US buying up internet-based businesses in the past year. "All of them were for cash, not stock. This indicates to me that the acquirees were more comfortable accepting hard currency, rather than shares of companies in the troubled newspaper business."
(From Business Week)

NYT moves to 45gsm paper

(From Newspapapers And Technology )

Google working on Mac version of Google Earth

But no ETA.
(From SF Chronicle)

Guardian berliner in Autumn

(From MediaGuardian.co.uk)

Woodwing to deploy Van Gennep planning system

Subscription required
(From Editor & Publisher)

Craigslist and "open source journalism"

(From Editor & Publisher)

Garcia paper on tabloidisation

(From Garcia Media)

First North American Berliner

"... Format conversions have gained steam, particularly in Europe ... The staid London Times ... is expected to make another change, to Berliner, in 2006."
(From Newspapers and Technology)

Google to rate news reports according to "quality"

(From Association of Online Publishers)

Kelner: 'advertising has caused us grief'

Simon Kelner on how media buyers have reacted to the Indy's tabloid moves. Also a nicely illustrative statistic about media: "The Independent editor pointed out that newspaper sales on the day after the US election were 5-10% down because readers turned to other sources for the latest information on the poll results. But he said sales of papers rose by between 6% and 12% the next day, when readers sought analysis of the results."
(From MediaGuardian.co.uk)

All top 7 daily US newspapers commissioned their own typefaces

According to a study by Ascender Corporation. Thirty-five of the top 100 US papers use custom fonts. The list of most popular faces is, however, utterly predictable: Franklin Gothic, Poynter, Futura, Helvetica, Century, Utopia, Times, Nimrod, Bureau and Interstate.
(From eMediaWire)

Garcia says tabloidisation accelerating

Following on from his comment in May 2002 (as reported here) that the bulk of broadsheets will go tabloid by 2020, Mario Garcia has now revised that deadline to 2010. In an interview in the Chicago Tribune Garcia said that events of the past two years, especially in the UK, have contributed to the increasing acceptance of smaller formats in the US. The article also quotes Harold Evans -- e.g. "If I'd been editing the Times I would not have gone small tabloid. I'd have gone for the size the Guardian's going to".
(From Digital Deliverance)

Quark: "we are talking to our customers"

Kamar Aulakh: "The one area we have been focusing on is changing the organization from one focused internally, as a technology-driven company, to one that is externally focused on the customer." But apparently that may not extend as far as InDesign/XPress file exchange compatibility.
(From The Seybold Bulletin)

US newspaper readership has dropped from 77.6% to 54.1% since 1985

Another bunch of newspaper execs say we must smell the coffee. William Dean Singleton of MediaNews Group says the industry must define itself as "providing information to our communities and selling eyeballs to our advertisers".
(From Editor & Publisher)

Guardian Weekly US relaunch reported in MediaWeek

Finally some press about the Guardian Weekly relaunch.
(From MediaWeek)