Newspaper Industry Decline, News Media | featured news

A five-part Los Angeles Times series on the futility of government efforts to quell the growing threat of wildfires won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday, and the New York Times claimed five of journalism's highest awards in a year that recognized the watchdog function of the press even as newspapers struggle to survive.

The Sun-Times Media Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and dozens of suburban newspapers, has filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors.

Washington Post Co plans to offer a new round of buyouts in 2009 to employees at its namesake, money-losing newspaper and cannot rule out layoffs, its publisher said on Thursday.

La Jolla-based Copley Press Inc. is selling its flagship paper for an undisclosed sum.

The final edition of the Post-Intelligencer is further evidence of the decline of print, leaving the city's journalists to map the unknown territory of a new media landscape.

Tuesday's edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the last copy to be printed, as a slimmed-down edition moves solely online.

The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry.

The Washington Post plans to fold its business news coverage into the main news section, making it the latest newspaper to reorganize in difficult times for print media.

Newspaper publisher McClatchy said Monday that it will shrink its work force by an additional 15% as it contends with sharply ...

Wall St. has created its list of the ten major daily papers that are most likely to fold or shut their print operations and only publish online.