Word: newsprint
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...days passed last year, it was as if some creeping, flesh-eating virus had got hold of the newspaper industry. Nearly every month brought fresh evidence of decay, proof that a major contraction, driven by skyrocketing costs for newsprint, was occurring among papers large and small, famous and obscure. In January the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel announced a merger, destroying about 500 jobs--and creating yet another one-newspaper town. In March the Fort Worth Star-Telegram abandoned its all-day edition. In April the Houston Post walked off the field, leaving its rival, the Chronicle, with...
...suicide of its lead singer, Kurt Cobain, has been written about, figuratively speaking, to death. In the liner notes to Nirvana's newly released live CD, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, bassist Krist Novoselic even declares, "Let all the analysis fall away like yellow, aged newsprint." If it were that easy, would O.J. still be in the news...
...began to teach their friends, and photocopied the pages so that others could so the same. Soon, the group decided to print up the information for distribution to area women who had heard about the project and were asking for their own copies of the information. Printed on flimsy newsprint and sold for forty cents, the first copy of the now-ubiquitous women's health manual Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women was born...
...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...