Going, going, gone! The rush sale of The Financial Times
The Financial Times newspaper was sold yesterday to the Japanese financial media group Nikkei. The FT had been owned by Pearson Publishing Group, one of the biggest players in the… Read more »
Revealing the contents of century-old time capsules
At least three time capsules were opened in the United States this week— one in New York dating from 1914, another in Boston found in the “head of a lion… Read more »
Read All About It: new exhibition celebrates the history of newspapers
Today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper, except when it comes in the form of an exhibition celebrating the inky history of newspapers. Monday night saw the London opening… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal of the Underground Press
Here’s an embarrassing story. About a month into college thesis research, I made a stunning breakthrough: I did not know how to do college thesis research. Had I been writing… Read more »
Are layoffs at El Diario a union-busting move?
A round of layoffs hit the El Diario newsroom last Friday, with conflicting numbers being reported by different news sources. Early on Monday, Capital New York announced that 12 employees… Read more »
The Independent on Sunday axes all of its arts critics
The Independent on Sunday is to lose all of its art critics as of September, as the newspaper makes a series of cuts. Although the paper’s editor, Lisa Markwell has… Read more »
New study shows that younger readers are more willing to pay for online content than older ones
So this is an interesting turn of events: according to a new study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the younger readers they polled across nine countries… Read more »