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Article about the declining audience of readers from the newspaper. Gives some percentages from 2012

An article by Jeff Mascot who believes there is no possible way for the newspaper industry to survive. 

This article gives a history rundown of the first African American newspaper. It goes through who was involved and what the purpose of the paper was for. This paper gave a voice for the African American people.

This site talks about how the newspaper will need to use the internet ant the web to survive. They have to figure out a way to keep readers interested. They also talk about people entering the newspaper industry who grew up with the internet. By hiring these people the industry will have a greater chance of survival.

The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a new version of the proposed media shield law, forging a compromise on who should be protected from having to reveal their journalistic sources in court. The amended bill, which is now clear to go for a full vote in the Senate, avoids defining who is a "journalist."

More about Paul Gillin and his ideas behind the Newspaper Death Watch. Talks a little bit about who he is as well.

I got a picture called who killed the newspaper from this website.

Gives lots and lots of great information(including some vocab) about how and why newspapers are where they are today and the people who helped make it what it is.

This article explains where newspapers might be in the future and also who and what impacts the future of the newspaper industry.

Basic information: Who was Gutenberg. What is the Gutenberg Bible. Why are they both important.

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

Founded by New York University graduate Phil Groman (who now joins NBC's digital team), theyet-to-launch web service Stringwire lets users stream content from phones. Per the official release from NBC, Stringwire was created as a service for news organizations to request video from a network of verified contributors with connected mobile devices capable of streaming video across the globe. The service is part of NBC News' strategy to create different methods of eyewitness accounts that can be immediately connected to the newsroom and distributed to the public.

Television and newspapers seem to have little in common. The business of flickering screens is thriving while newspapers are shrinking. So Mr Darcey, who took charge in January, is pushing his titles, including the Sun, a populist tabloid, and the Times, a higher-brow paper, to learn lessons from his former industry.

An interview with ted's Jacek Utko, who spoke about changing the design of newspapers to see an increase. Interview with ted talks over the phone.

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

If news papers and newsrooms die off... here is one of the major issue in the present and future of news