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Different jobs available in the newspaper industry. Advertising, business office,circulation, human resources, IT, market development, news, online, and production.

This is an interesting article about how the newspaper industry has changed over the span of a single man's career. He describes how the profits involved are decreasing exponentially, and how less and less jobs are available for this industry.

Neil Irwin, wrote " I started working at The Washington Post on June 5, 2000. It was in the same building we work in now, but it was very much a different place. We were just on the cusp between one media age and another, even if not everybody understood that yet."

While not a particular article, this webpage on Poynter provides multiple accounts for which newspaper companies are laying off workers in the past couple weeks / months. Could be useful in providing statistics for how the newspaper industry is declining.

Apple and News Corp are reportedly set to launch The Daily, the first iPad-only news publication. Can Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs usher journalism into a new digital age?

The iPhone and Android have put a virtual newsroom-with writing, photo, video, Web research and communications capabilities-into our pockets. We gasp at the inexorable decline of the business models of once-mighty traditional media corporations, hollowing out newsrooms and throwing thousands of people out of once-secure jobs.