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The U.S. newspaper industry is in deep crisis and the state of the two titles in America’s greatest newspaper city, Chicago, is a case in point. In the city that spawned The Front Page, the iconic play and movie about 20th century journalism, both the Tribune and the Sun-Times are coping with the twin problems of falling advertising revenue and falling sales. Bill Hagerty, BJR’s editor, visits the city and meets the papers’ two editors to discuss their problems. In spite of the gloom, he discovers that they remain optimistic about the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many newspaper analysts and media commentators have dismissed the national Sunday market as a disaster area beyond regeneration. Preston disagrees and points out that although circulations are falling in the Sunday market, the quality press is not faring badly: "In March 2008, quality Sunday sales were recorded as 2.04 per cent down on March 2007: better by far than mid-market and red-top Sundays (down 4.7 per cent and 3.81 per cent respectively) and better than quality dailies, down 2.51 per cent. It's not a dismaying result when you remember that Sundays are traditionally priced far higher than their Saturday in-house competitors." A brave proprietor wishing to launch a new newspaper should go for Sunday, perhaps with Saturday as an added extra, Preston argues. "Print perhaps only one set of magazines and add-ons to cover the weekend. And deal with the run of the week exactly how young readers in particular are tackling it: by logging on and surfing around the whole puzzle on paper for those with the time and inclination to think and brood... If you can marry the swiftness and cheapness on demand of the web with the relative permanency of print, then you have a total package." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of the market has produced a differentiation inside the Chinese press between an ‘official’ press with traditional propaganda functions on behalf of the Communist Party and a ‘commercial’ press whose objective is to maximise revenue. Scholarly opinion has differed over whether marketization undermines Party control and whether new forms of journalism have arisen that lead to conflicts. These discussions have rested on little evidence as to the practises of Chinese journalism. This article presents empirical data on the extent of the differentiation, reporting on a content analysis of the national news in People’s Daily and Southern Metropolitan Daily. These titles are popularly believed to represent the polar opposites of official, orthodox journalism and commercial, liberal journalism. The evidence presented here demonstrates that while there are indeed significant differences in the journalism of the two titles, there remains a substantial overlap in their choice of subjects, their use of sources and the degree to which news is presented ‘objectively’. Southern Metropolitan Daily does display some ‘popular’ features and does contain more ‘watchdog’ journalism, but it shares with its official cousin an emphasis upon the party as the source for news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Public Relations Committee came into being in 1938 as a service agency of the organization American Sociological Society. It was organized to interpret to the press the articles read before the thirty-third annual convention. Thirty-nine articles were received in advance, carefully read and analyzed from a press viewpoint as well as from the standpoint of the society's public relations problems, and converted into a form that would be readily assimilable by the press. The committee's activities have also embraced widespread advance publicity for the convention, including notes in the local newspapers of participants in the convention telling of their role, and above all the making of special arrangements with science editors for newspapers and newsgathering agencies through correspondence and personal contacts. As a result of its efforts, the committee believes that useful strides have been made towards establishing the society's annual convention as a source for scientific news. The volume of editorials, feature stories, news articles, and radio comments a year ago and the interest exhibited this year by newspaper people suggests that constructive interpretation can be done through the press in this highly controversial professional field.

The author reflects on the importance for journalists to reassert verbal clarity and improve their stories in response to the changing culture of journalism. He compares the difference of the media and national press in 1950s and 1960s and the current condition in which their common culture is delivered through moving images and sounds. The author encourages journalists to continue championing good writing in response to the speed of technological changes.

The author reflects on the difference between the American and British journalism. He describes the two countries' contrasting approaches on the way their newspapers handle and maintain strict separation between editorial comment and news coverage particularly in television. However, the author commends the impudence and impertinence characteristics of the British journalism, which does not exist in the American press.

The article focuses on the concept of me newspaper, which provides readers with the range and depth of stories in which they have expressed a personal interest. It suggests presenting each customer with a menu of subjects from which he or she may choose a selection up to a maximum number. It discusses four main methods of basing segmentation, including geographic, demographic, and pyschographic.

Bloggers, tweeters, website ferrets — it’s time to realise that if the wolf is to be kept from the door, collaborative journalism is the way ahead [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the life and works of journalist Marje Proops from Great Britain. Proops was a brilliant, charming, but ruthlessly ambitious journalist, who started her life on newspapers in 1939. Details on the accomplishments she has made in the industry as well as her early life are highlighted.

The author reflects on the deterioration of ethics in the mass media in Great Britain. He outlines the factors that contributed to the increasing complexity of the media, making it harder to explain and effectively more secretive. The author recognizes the effort of several politicians in creating a more open system in the sector, however, their progress do not connect with policies that could supposedly inspire a fresh start in the industry.

The outgoing executive editor of the Washington Post predicts a bright future for United States newspapers, writing: "The future of newspaper newsrooms is especially important to the future of accountability journalism in the United States because they still produce the most original reporting, compared to stand-alone websites, local television stations or even the big broadcast and cable networks. But they also must cope with high fixed costs of production and distribution of printed newspapers. How they restructure their economic models, take better advantage of the internet and define their public service missions in a time of enormous stress will determine the future of the accountability journalism that is so important in a representative democracy." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses British journalism with special focus on newspapers' position on the ideas left by the journal's former editor Geoffrey Goodman, who died in September 2013. Topics include a trail against a group of journalists at British criminal court, objections against pending regulations to to make journalists subject to parliamentary control, and journalism's funding. The position of British newspapers such as "The Guardian," "The Sun," and "The Mail" on these issues is reviewed.