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Canberra Times management are knuckling down to develop a strategy to preserve the storied broadsheet in its current form as circulation and profit plummets.

The re-emergence of partisan media outlets in Australia raises the question of what sort of impact they have on democracy, and whether it’s all bad.

Over a third of regular newspaper subscribers in the US only do it out of habit. And over two thirds subscribe for the coupons that come with the paper.

There has been a marked collapse in trust in Australian media outlets, increasing the distance between the ABC and the rest.

Remember the library?

With no power and phone lines down, residents of Ishinomaki, Japan couldn’t access social media or television news. Instead, the local newspaper staff wrote out — by hand — the latest news for the community.

News apps for tablet PCs have been touted as potential saviours of the flailing newspaper industry. However some experts say they have a limited shelf life, reports Josh Halliday.

News Ltd is the big loser from the slump in newspaper sales in 2010, casting doubt on the continuing presence of some senior editors and executives at Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire.

Our national media has been reduced to six dominant groups. In the face of shrinking media diversity and an evolving media environment, it’s time to reconsider how and why we regulate media ownership.

Gen Y journalism students aren’t actually reading newspapers — most of their news comes from online — but they are still expecting to be employed by traditional media organisations. Roy Greenslade contemplates this conundrum.

Sex sells, but the increasing sexification of the Times of India newspaper is destroying its traditional readership. Is the media landscape so saturated in India that overtly raunchy news is the only way to sell a paper?

The editor of independent Egyptian newspaper al-Dostour got the boot yesterday. Why? Because he wanted to publish an article written by the Opposition leader in a country where government censorship rules.

The founder of USA Today, Allen H. Neuharth, may be 86, but he still gets angry when his beloved paper is covered in a wrap-around ad for Jeep. Neuharth declared it the “worst” cover ever and “the low point in any decision any USA TODAY publisher has ever made.”