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| | A '''newspaper''' is a regularly printed digest of [[news]] stories, investigative journalism, review, editorial opinion and feature articles. Major papers are published daily; minor ones weekly. They contain syndicated news from sources such as [[Associated Press]] and [[Reuters]], as well as features, as well as local reporting and advertising. The prestige papers have their own news bureaus in the state and national capital and other major cities. | | A '''newspaper''' is a regularly printed digest of [[news]] stories, investigative journalism, review, editorial opinion and feature articles. Major papers are published daily; minor ones weekly. They contain syndicated news from sources such as [[Associated Press]] and [[Reuters]], as well as features, as well as local reporting and advertising. The prestige papers have their own news bureaus in the state and national capital and other major cities. |
| | ==Crisis of 2009== | | ==Crisis of 2009== |
| − | The newspaper industry is currently in decline around the world, because of the influence of 24 hour [[television]] news channels and the [[Internet]] as sources of news. The [[Recession of 2008]] hammered newspapers hard, because their main revenue source is advertising for new houses, jobs, automobiles and department stores, all of which cut back sharply. Some major newspapers are in bankruptcy, including the ''Chicago Tribune'' and ''Los Angeles Times,'' while Denver's ''Rocky Mountain News'' shut down in February 2009 and other major papers may follow it into history. | + | The newspaper industry is currently in decline around the world, because of the influence of 24 hour [[television]] news channels and the [[Internet]] as sources of news. The [[Recession of 2008]] hammered newspapers hard, because their main revenue source is advertising for new houses, jobs, automobiles and department stores, all of which cut back sharply. Some major newspapers are in bankruptcy, including the ''Chicago Tribune'' and ''Los Angeles Times,'' while Denver's ''Rocky Mountain News'' shut down in February 2009 and other major papers may follow it into history. [[Image:No-news.jpg|thumb|320px|left]] |
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| − | The Seattle ''Post-Intelligencer'' in March 2009 became the largest American paper to drop its print edition and become an Internet-only publication. It is cutting its news staff from 165 reporters to only 20. A part of the Hearst chain, the P-I had a print circulation of 118,000 a day but lost $14 million in 2008 and no one wanted to buy it. Seattle still has a daily print paper, the ''Seattle Times,'' but it too is in deep financial trouble<ref>"Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web," [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/media/17paper.html?_r=1&hp ''New York Times Mar. 16, 2009]</ref> | + | The Seattle ''Post-Intelligencer'' in March 2009 became the largest American paper to drop its print edition and become an Internet-only publication. It is cutting its news staff from 165 reporters to only 20. A part of the Hearst chain, the P-I had a print circulation of 118,000 a day but lost $14 million in 2008 and no one wanted to buy it. Seattle still has a daily print paper, the ''Seattle Times,'' but it too is in deep financial trouble<ref>"Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web," [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/media/17paper.html?_r=1&hp ''New York Times Mar. 16, 2009]</ref> |
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| | ==Liberal and conservative== | | ==Liberal and conservative== |