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Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy The Washington post for $250 million cash. Includes the Grahm family's feelings toward the deal and what made Bezo's an attractive buyer.

Can Jeff Bezos invent a new future for newspapers? By buying The Washington Post in his personal capacity, the Amazon founder and internet pioneer may just be looking to save an American institution

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.

A short video where Chairman Ratner discusses the state of the newspaper industry. Where people get their news, why did Jeff Bezos buy The Post, daily newspaper circulation, local news, advertising

The purchase of The Washington Post by Internet mogul Jeff Bezos for $250 million will end nearly eight decades of that newspaper's ownership by the Graham family

Video on the future of newspapers and how they are being saves. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos made news this week following reports that the Internet pioneer had purchased one of the nations top newspapers.

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

A short article with 7 major recent things that shook the newspaper industry.

As the Golden Age of newspapers comes to an end with the sale of the Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, social media is no longer a crutch but a force that can transform and potentially save the dying industry.

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."

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."

After nearly 280 years in print, the world's oldest continuously published newspaper is stopping the presses in favor of a digital presence. Lloyd's List, which was founded in 1734 as a notice posted to a London coffee shop's wall, announced Wednesday it will cease its print edition in December. The newspaper is widely regarded as the leading source of news and analysis for the global shipping market. The newspaper's management cited declining interest in the print edition as the impetus behind the move. A recent survey of Lloyd's List readers found that less than 2 percent relied solely on the print edition for access to the newspaper's content.

video posted on a citizen news site

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?

the huffington posts top ten newspapers circulating in america today

It wasn't so much the incredible year-over-year gains in total circulation. In fact, as has been discussed and reported in other blogs and articles, it is really meaningless to make year-over-year comparisons due to new categories of digital and branded edition circulation.

WHEN Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post early last month for $250m, the question everyone wanted the answer to was, why would a new media guy invest in old media?