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Q1 ad stats echo downward trend

Updated: 10:23 am 06/08/2012

Advertising revenues at U.S. newspapers fell almost 7 percent in the first quarter of 2012, to $5.18 billion, the Newspaper Association of America posted on its website.

Papers accelerate website restrictions

Updated: 2:29 pm 06/04/2012

MUG draws scores to 44th show

Updated: 06/04/2012

Moody’s casts poor light on papers

Updated: 06/04/2012

Ifra Expo shifts from Madrid to Frankfurt

Updated: 06/04/2012

NewsXtreme underpins 2 CTP conversions

Updated: 06/04/2012

Goss cites Middle East projects

Updated: 06/04/2012

Central Ink hikes prices

Updated: 06/04/2012

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• Q1 ad stats echo downward trend
• MUG draws scores to 44th show
• Ifra Expo shifts from Madrid to Frankfurt
• Moody’s casts poor light on papers
• Goss cites Middle East projects
• NewsXtreme underpins 2 CTP conversions
• Central Ink hikes prices
• Inland sets exec training program
• Texas papers sold to Victoria Advocate backers
• Freedom sells N.C., Fla. papers to Halifax
• Papers with digital subscriber plans/paywalls

Papers accelerate website restrictions

From a standing start only two years ago, the number of newspapers with digital subscriber plans that include restrictions on the amount of information a non-subscriber can view online has mushroomed to more than 180, with dozens more scheduled to join the list by year-end.

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Freedom sells N.C., Fla. papers to Halifax

The disbanding of Freedom Communications' newspapers properties continued as the publisher sold its Florida and North Carolina properties to Halifax Media Group.

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Update: Times-Pic plan step beyond Advance’s Mich. strategy

The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune and three Alabama dailies also published by Advance Publications will move to three-day-a-week publication this fall as the publisher expands the digital-centric strategy it launched earlier this year in Michigan.

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New formats reflect tech commitments

In the span of the last four decades, newspaper publishers and production executives have had to navigate through dozens of technological developments — from the first web offset presses to cloud-based publishing systems.

But through all of these transformations, one thing that didn’t change too much was the basic shape of the typical U.S. newspaper. More color, yes, but outside of carving a few inches off the width of the page, U.S. papers remained overwhelmingly broadsheet, with a tabloid and an occasional Berliner thrown in here and there for variety.

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Digital production gains traction at drupa ’12

DUSSELDORF, Germany — Copies of The Wall Street Journal Asia slated for distribution in the Osaka, Japan, region are now being produced on a digital press, marking the first time Dow Jones has used the technology for everyday production of the tabloid publication.

Dow Jones forged a one-year trial with TKS to print the daily on its JetLeader 1500 digital press, located at the vendor’s IGA Techno Center near Osaka. By using the digital machine, Dow Jones can deliver papers across the region earlier in the day, the publisher said.

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• Press+ cites growth in newspaper clients

• EBook service targeting news organizations

• Muller tempting users with upgrade program

• New CTP treatment unit rolled out by Hart

• Texas daily’s new magazine keeps it Real