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Laura Hazard OwenMarch 16, 2023

Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print

One Redditor: “I actually enjoy reading my local newspaper when it’s on the Kindle as opposed to the paper’s poorly designed website and frequently broken app.”

Gregory P. Perreault and Volha KananovichOctober 4, 2022

“Every four years we shoot ourselves in the foot”: Should news outlets still endorse political candidates?

Interviewing 64 U.S. political journalists, we found that many of them have come to view their outlets’ political endorsements as a liability.

Joshua BentonJune 28, 2022

For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland

For local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423).

Laura Hazard OwenJune 16, 2022

“Facebook has taken over”: How residents find local info when local newspapers aren’t doing the job

“A lot of it’s trash, to be honest, but a lot of it’s very useful.”

Joshua BentonNovember 22, 2021

The vulture is hungry again: Alden Global Capital wants to buy a few hundred more newspapers

This time it’s Lee Enterprises in the cross-hairs. Adding it to its empire would leave two American local newspaper giants — Gannett and Alden — and everyone else far behind.

Nieman Lab StaffOctober 28, 2021

Cancel culture: Why do people cancel news subscriptions? We asked, they answered.

We found that the primary stated reason was money, followed by political or ideological concerns.

Hanaa' TameezSeptember 30, 2021

Chicago Public Media is exploring a deal to acquire the Chicago Sun-Times

Public radio “is in a good position to pick up the slack if the legacy newspaper starts getting squeezed by corporate ownership.”

Joshua BentonJuly 26, 2021

Small steps, but: Most big American newspaper newsrooms are now led by someone other than a white man

Among the 20 biggest dailies, nearly two-thirds of their newsrooms are run by a woman or a person of color (or both). But newsrooms still have a long way to go to be reflective of the communities they serve.

Mark Coddington and Seth LewisApril 20, 2021

Why do people still get print newspapers? Well, partly to start up the grill (seriously)

“Appropriating the newspaper is tied to non-news practices which are meaningful to the actors, although they might seem trivial to some scholars.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 22, 2021

Most U.S. news organizations still won’t let most readers cancel their subscriptions online

As a news consumer, you are less likely to be able to cancel online than you are to get a please-stay pitch from a customer service rep on the phone.

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