Window Media, publisher of the Washington Blade, Southern Voice and other big US LGBT newspapers has filed for bankruptcy, and will cease publishing immediately.
Newspaper death watch 
Australian newspapers following the US in steep decline
The declining revenues of Australian newspapers will spell trouble locally, just as the same trend has resulted in disaster for many US titles, writes Niki Scevak.
National newspapers fall off a cliff, bury news
Australian newspaper buyers have punished the national papers, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian in the latest audit period, but basically spared the rod on their state-based competitors.
When a city loses its newspaper
When a newspaper goes bust — as they’re increasingly want to do these days — it isn’t just the writers and readers who are affected: government becomes less accountable and society becomes stupider.
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A graphic history of newspaper circulation
The Awl has combined circulation figures for the major US newspapers going back to 1990 to create an eye-opening chart of media carnage. One of these things is not like the others…
The upside to the newspaper downturn
The plummeting circulation figures of US newspapers isn’t all bad news: the environment, journalistic standards and the internet may all reap the benefits. The Atlantic Wire rounds up the media pundits who still view the news-stand as half-full.
Bottom falling out of US newspaper circulations
No matter which way you look at it, the latest circulation figures from the embattled US newspaper industry are a disaster, with circulations falling more than 10% in the six months to September — the biggest fall ever.
Newspapers enter their death spiral
The circulation figures for the top 25 newspapers in the US have just been released, and they’re horrifying, says Megan McArdle. This isn’t just the end of the newspaper as we know it — it’s the end of the newspaper full stop.
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Is the WSJ hemorrhaging money?
Tipsters tell Gawker that the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal is on track to lose $100 million this year. Given the Journal is Murdoch’s big paywall success story, the news could cause a lot of red faces if true.
Le Monde cuts the crap: buy our paper or we can’t survive
In what is surely a landmark in journalism, international paper Le Monde Diplomatique has made a direct and blunt appeal to its readers: buy our paper more regularly or take out a subscription, or we’ll go broke.
Trading Post’s last days a sign of things to come
The Trading Post will end its print run at the end of this month — the internet simply does classified ads better. But while advertising can now exist happily without any editorial content, can journalism survive without the ads?
Let newspapers die their natural death
Newspapers are dying: and we should just let it happen already, says Daniel Lyons. Online news sites like Politico and The Daily Beast are already faster, better, and more profitable. Why delay the inevitable?
Vale Trading Post
After 43 years of flogging used cars, slightly soiled couches and KISS pinball machines, the Trading Post is folding its print edition, following a 70% drop in ads over the last two years. RIP.
Great moments in journalism: America’s Next Top Pundit
The Washington Post is running a contest to find “America’s Next Great Pundit”. Contestants will face-off in a series of challenges, judged by Post staff, and readers will vote on who wins a coveted byline with the paper. No matter who wins, journalism is the loser.
Content isn’t king, growth isn’t always good: busting the media’s big myths
Newsflash, media moguls: your problems started well before the internet, say the authors of new book The Curse of the Mogul. A look at four big misconceptions that have been hurting the media industry far longer than the web.
graph pr0n The death of newspapers
A depressing-yet-informative little infographic charting the downturn in revenue, circulation, stock price and advertising in the newspaper industry.
Shafer: Save the newspapers from Obama!
Obama has suggested he might bail-out dying newspapers who are willing to reorganise as non-profits. But the last thing papers need is to be forever stuck with their hands out, says Jack Shafer. Run for your lives, publishers!
Dear media commentators: newspapers don’t need your advice
Got a brilliant idea about how to save the newspaper industry? Keep it to yourself. Newspapers aren’t short on ideas, says Joshua-Michéle Ross — they’re grappling with much larger questions and structural problems.
Michael Moore: “Newspapers slit their own throats”
Film-maker Michael Moore has weighed-in on the death of the American daily newspaper industry: capitalism is the killer. Oh, and he’s just released a film about capitalism. Funny that. Still, a witty and worthwhile analysis.
Crikey Says: SMH: from profit-plunge to awards
What does it take to be Australia’s newspaper of the year?
The future of news: networked, non-profit… NPR 
Family feud: why the Post may outlive the Times
Both of America’s premier mastheads, the New York Times and Washington Post are suffering in the media downturn. But the Post has one advantage that may see it weather the storm better, says Michael Wolff: likeable owners.
New York paper “restructures” its “Information Center”
New York’s Journal News is undergoing a “comprehensive restructuring plan”. What does that mean? It’s renamed the newsroom as an “information center”, beats are now “topics”, and 288 staff members will be fired so they can reapply for only 218 “new” positions. Innovative!
Another US publisher bites the dust
A 10th US publisher has collapsed. Glenn Dyer reports on the latest print media failing: Freedom Communications of California.
US newspaper ad revenues take a pounding
The US newspaper industry has endured another three tough months as ad revenues continue to fall. All of which underlines the unreality of Rupert Murdoch’s crusade to get news website users to pay for content.
