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A really good, short article with lots of current statistics. 

Data on how young adults are currently accessing news. 

This is an article describing the competition between the newspaper and radio industries in current times. Basically, the author believes that newspaper doesn't stand a chance with other industries with the rise of the internet and the digital era.

Some more current information about the struggles that the newspaper and the book industry face with the rise of the digital era and the internet.

This is a short article involving the statistics of the newspaper industry. It is the fastest shrinking industry in America, even with the development of online sites and apps for tablets / smart phones.

This video describes that while the rest of the world has a major decline in newspaper revenue, India's newspaper industry is actually growing. The youth of India prefer to purchase newspapers, instead of switching over to their digital versions.

After letting go of its entire photo staff Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times plans to begin mandatory training on "iPhone photography basics." Media writer Robert Feder referred to the training in a Facebook post, and quotes a memo from Editor Craig Newman: "In the coming days and weeks, we'll be working with all editorial employees to train and outfit you as much as possible to produce the content we need."

Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos formally took over as the owner of The Washington Post on Tuesday, officially ending 80 years of local control of the newspaper by the Graham family.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he sees a future in which newspapers are like horses - a luxury item for a small group of people, not a mainstream transportation method - but his analogy is both right and wrong.

On Tuesday, most Oregonian subscribers will not find newspapers on their doorsteps. Oct. 1 brings what the Oregonian Media Group calls a "new era of digital journalism."

The chief economist at Google , Hal Varian, has given an interesting little speech looking into the economics of the newspaper industry. No, they're not entirely doomed, as some think, but they do need some changes. Most importantly, it would be good if we all read them for a little longer while at work each day. The general points made are all entirely reasonable: most of us who have been reading about this subject will know many of them already. Newspaper circulation has been in decline for decades, it's not just the internet. News was never what made the money, it was the advertising in the other parts of the paper that did. The battle is really about, whether online or offline, gaining access to some fragment of our attention span. Gain that and the industry can still be profitable and so on. All good points. But the two that were new to me

What do newspaper companies like The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO ) , New York Times (NYSE: NYT ) and Gannett (NYSE: GCI ) have in common? Although they are said to be in a dying industry, so far this year all of them have beaten the Standard & Poor's 500 index performance by a wide margin. What is behind the return of newspaper stocks?

This is an article that describes how radio first effected the newspaper, as well as how it has still made an impact on it.

Another article describing the competition between the radio and the newspaper industries. This article shows how radio took on advertisement methods from the newspaper to further its industry.

This is a little article about newspaper chains and how they were run in the past and how they are being dealt with today.

Website that gives a list of major newspapers that are still printing versus just posting online.

"I'll probably read a print newspaper until I die. And that's a problem for the newspaper business; its most loyal customers are closer to death than to birth." This is another article about how the newspaper industry is currently doing. It provides statistics for the top newspapers around today.

Talks about the business aspect of the newspaper industry