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This year, for the first time, advertisers will have spent more on Internet ads than on print newspaper ads, according to new estimates from eMarketer.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is developing a digital newspaper exclusively for the iPad and other electronic tablet devices, according to the Women's Wear Daily website.

The top 25 U.S. newspapers - according to the number of Twitter followers, as recorded by Journalistics a bit over a week ago - is below. Sitting very comfortably in first place is The New York Times with 2.6 million - and they are the only news source on the list that has more followers than print circulation. The Wall Street Journal is number two with 464,591 followers, and The Washington Post comes in at third with 204,514. The Chicago Tribune, however, if you count both of its Twitter accounts, including @ColonelTribune, totals a second-place 879,490. 1. @nytimes – 2,668,948 2.

The New York Post is the latest newspaper to cross the iPad barrier, with a new, full-content tablet.

Alternative weeklies are raking in medical marijuana lucre, but dailies like The Denver Post are taking advantage of the boom, too, and making no apologies.

The Boston Globe announced Thursday that the online version of its newspaper will be moving from Boston.com to BostonGlobe.com, and that it will begin charging for full access to the latter beginning the second half of next year.

A group of lenders once again came out on top in the auction for the publisher of Philadelphia's two major daily newspapers, winning with a cash bid of $105 million and besting a rival group led by local philanthropist Raymond Perelman.

Many worry that Silicon Valley will upend the entertainment industry just like the Internet ravaged the music and newspaper industries. Google revolutionized the way people access information. Now it wants to transform how people get entertainment.

Yahoo (YHOO) and Gannett (GCI) announced today that they have formed a local advertising partnership.