Those death-defying newspapers By David Olive | Sun Feb 13 2011 Source: moneyville.ca Newspapers are proving so resilient that the term “dying newspaper industry” will be retired in the next year or two. Newspapers are still profitable, even in the midst of the most punishing ad drought in memory. Readership is at record levels, despite price hikes imposed by publishers. …

John Shmuel, Financial Post · Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 Source: financialpost.com Newspapers will certainly survive well into the future, but that survival is going to rely on finding increasingly new and innovative ways to monetize their content — and not just putting up pay walls. Finding a happy middle was the message that came through most strongly during the Media …

Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 17 October 2010 There is no clear correlation between a rise in internet traffic and a fall in newspaper circulation. Some papers are growing in both formats, others are succeeding in neither, according to new research. The woe, as usual, is more or less unconfined. September’s daily newspaper circulation figures, as audited by ABC, are …