Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group could offer would be the solidarity and increased prestige that come from a union of common interests. We could lobby for more interviews with administrators, ask for better access to University records and pursue joint business ventures such as increasing advertising revenues or purchasing supplies such as newsprint in bulk...
These are excruciating times for the newspaper industry. Newsprint prices have shot up more than 50% in the past year, advertising in much of the country is soft after years of recession, and circulation at many papers is flat or declining. In recent months the Houston Post and the Baltimore Evening Sun have joined the casualties. And a bitter strike against the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News has opened the possibility that only one of those two papers will survive...
Planners estimate that the new program will save some 1,000 pounds of newsprint each day, the equivalent of 3,000 trees per year...
THERE'S AN ANGLE TO ONLINE JOURNALISM you missed. Newspapers that previously had small circulation because of the costs of newsprint and delivery are now read on the World Wide Web by thousands more than anyone had ever conceived. Student-run university newspapers, like ours, are a perfect example: people can read about what is really happening on campus at the click of a button, instead of depending on mainstream-media reports and glossy alumni magazines. Welcome to the media revolution...
...Houston Post was sold to the Hearst Corp., which immediately shut down the 110-year-old paper, a rival to Hearst's Houston Chronicle. The Post's original owners blamed its demise on the rising cost of newsprint...