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For a little humorous break from the world of hard news, we have the embarrassing story of the Valley News that serves Vermont and New Hampshire misspelling its own name on the front page of the July 21 issue. The big oopsie was followed on July 22 with an egg-on-the-face, editor's note apologizing to the readers for this ridiculous mistake. Editor's Note - Readers may have noticed that the Valley News misspelled its own name on yesterday's front page. Given that we routinely call on other institutions to hold them accountable for their mistakes, let us say for the record:...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Chicago Tribune Media Group said Monday that Ann Marie Lipinski would step down as the editor of its flagship newspaper, with the publication preparing to go through another round of layoffs and shrink the number of its printed pages. Lipinski had been editor of the Tribune since 2001 and had been with the paper since 1978. Her resignation will take effect on Thursday. In a statement, Lipinski said that "the position is not the fit it once was." The Tribune said that Gerould Kern, the paper's vice president of editorials since 2003, will serve as...

The Oakland Tribune, in an apparent effort to elect a gun-control advocate as the city's next mayor, doctors their reporting and then reneges on promises to publish opposing views. The paper's editor was directly involved - mreynolds@bayareanewsgroup.com. ------------- It never troubles me to call out a liar. When they work in the media it is a downright pleasure. In May the Trib ran an article penned in tag team by two of their journalist. I misuse the term journalist herein because what they wrote in no way resembles reporting. ... I will not accuse these literary desperadoes of prostituting themselves...

An Indian company will take over copy editing duties for some stories published in The Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper at the company that owns the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the newspaper confirmed Tuesday. Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June, said John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Register. Mindworks' Web site says the company is based outside New Delhi and provides "high-quality editorial and design services to global media firms ... using top-end journalistic and design talent in India." Editors...

Iran orders paper director's arrest for 'insulting' president Jul 1, 2008 TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's judiciary on Tuesday ordered the arrest of the director of a leading reformist newspaper over an article attacking President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his remarks on the Shiites' "hidden imam." Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, director of Etemad Melli newspaper, has been issued with an order for arrest and investigation on charges of spreading lies and publishing "an insulting piece", a spokesman for Tehran public and revolutionary courts told the ISNA student agency. The spokesman said the "insulting" article was written by mid-ranking cleric Rasoul Montajab-Nia in Tuesday's...

MSM's Downsizing Bloodbath May Give Alternative Media a Boost Downsizing BloodbathWhat the newspaper industry's unprecedented wave of layoffs says about American journalism -- and what it means for newspaper readers and bloggers By DAVID PAULIN The downsizing bloodbath in America's newspaper industry is different from earlier waves of layoffs over the years. This time top editors and reporters are being let go at the most prestigious newspapers. What does all this say about American journalism? And what will it mean for newspaper readers and bloggers? First, consider the financially troubled New York Times. Layoffs are being threatened there -- something...

ST. PETERSBURG – The St. Petersburg Times will offer an enhanced retirement option to reduce its payroll and, depending on response, could resort to layoffs later this year. The newspaper also is imposing a one-year wage freeze for remaining employees. In a letter to staff, Times editor and chairman Paul Tash said the measures were a response to a “difficult economic climate” that has been especially hard on advertising, the largest source of newspaper revenue. Over the last two years, the Times’ fulltime staff has dropped from more than 1,500 to fewer than 1,300, mostly by attrition. “We are navigating...

WILMINGTON -- Wilmington's Star News is laying off more than a dozen employees, and the cuts will be felt in their newsroom. Fifteen jobs were cut in Wilmington, and 100 jobs were elminated at the paper's parent company, The New York Times. Star News executive editor, Tim Griggs says six of the fifteen jobs are coming from the newsroom, while other positions are being trimmed from the production advertising and marketing departments. Griggs had said the Star News is thriving, but the industry as a whole is suffering with dropped circulation and ad sales primarly due to competition from the...

Danish newspapers have demonstrated solidarity with Kurt Westergaard and Jyllands-Posten today. After the arrests of conspirators determined to assassinate the editorial cartoonist, the other newspapers in Denmark today have reprinted the cartoon that aroused the ire of Muslims in the first place. They want to make the point that no one can intimidate them into silence: Newspapers in Denmark Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago. The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people who allegedly were plotting a "terror-related assassination" of Kurt Westergaard, one of the cartoonist...

Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko Date/Time: 1/22/2008 6:36:40 PM Title: Star Tribune publisher's memo Posted By: Jim Romenesko Taking Charge of Our Future By Chris Harte, [Minneapolis Star Tribune] Publisher and Chairman Last fall I told you I would write about our overall situation toward the end of the year. I waited before writing because November ad revenue was slightly better than recent months, and I hoped it was the start of a modestly better trend. But December was right back to the pattern of steep revenue declines that we'd seen since early in the year. We have budgeted for...

Sun-Times wrestles with new reality Planned newsroom layoffs and other cost cuts highlight shifts in the industry's business model, and readers in Chicago -- a notoriously competitive news town -- may ultimately suffer By Barbara Rose and Robert Manor Tribune staff reporters January 9, 2008 Readers of the Chicago Sun-Times picked up a smaller paper Tuesday, the latest tangible sign of the economic struggles engaging metropolitan newspapers around the country. The tabloid's physical shrinkage, by about 1 inch to save newsprint costs, is more easily accomplished than the pending staff cuts that will pare editorial positions by 19 percent, the...

It was Harte — the point man for Avista Capital Partners' 2006 Strib purchase — who hired away St. Paul Pioneer Press publisher Par Ridder in March. By September, the coup had turned into a full-fledged disgrace; a judge bounced Ridder from the job for taking confidential information from St. Paul. Harte — who is not an Avista partner but has told Stribites he has a substantial investment in the paper — was thrust into the publisher's chair. ...However, Harte has made some high-profile changes. Just weeks after Ridder's exit, he ousted longtime editorial page editor Susan Albright, who for...

Sun-Times Planning Job Cuts As Budget Tightens Could Latest Round Of Cutbacks Lead To End Of Newspaper? CHICAGO (CBS) ― Morale among employees at the Chicago Sun-Times is taking another slip. Company e-mails on Friday notified workers of drastic budget cuts that will lead to lost jobs. As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, the Sun-Times was devastated by owners David Radler, sentenced Monday to two years in jail; and Conrad Black, who last week got six years for stealing millions. Some say the tailspin the paper is taking could be fatal. "One person I know in the newsroom...

News To Her by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 06, 2007 Reality is for people who can’t face academia. As reported by Matt Eagan in The Hartford Courant, one academic, in commenting on the vanishing breed of scribes known as newspaper film critics, showed that she herself has a hard time distinguishing between breaking stories and popular features. “It’s just part of the disappearance of news from daily newspapers,” Jeanine Bassinger of Wesleyan University says. “As newspapers are cutting back, there is a feeling that readers will get their reviews from somewhere else.” “Those of us who were used to reading...

snip Their streamlined glass-and-steel forms proclaimed a faith in machine-age efficiency and an open, honest, democratic society. Newspaper journalism, too, is part of that history. Transparency, independence, the free flow of information, moral clarity, objective truth — these notions took hold and flourished in the last century at papers like The Times. To many this idealism reached its pinnacle in the period stretching from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War to Watergate, when journalists grew accustomed to speaking truth to power, and the public could still accept reporters as impartial observers. snip Maybe this accounts for the tower’s...

BASTROP (TV8) - Since the events in Jena, there have been a number of reported incidents involving nooses across America--in schools, offices, even on a college campus. Tonight, a newspaper is in dutch over just such a graphic in one of its own ads. TV8's Dustin Barnes has the story. Bastrop Councilwoman Betty Olive got calls from her constituents after this ad appeared in friday's issue of The Daily Enterprise Newspaper. Betty Olive says "Certainly at this particular time, that caught the eyes of a lot of readers and they expressed their concerns. The copy for the newspaper's advertising office...

The Houston Chronicle is now the sixth-largest metropolitan newspaper in the nation on Sundays — up from seventh — and remains at seventh-place weekdays, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported Monday. Chronicle Publisher and President Jack Sweeney said the Chronicle was outperforming most major markets in the country. "We virtually held steady in daily circulation and showed a gain on Sunday," Sweeney said. Sunday circulation ticked up .09 percent, from 692,593 to 693,228. Daily circulation dipped .13 percent, from 508,091 to 507,437. "We want more of our readers engaged in the paper seven days a week, so we've worked hard...

There's nothing like a good dose of schadenfreude to make one's morning. From Editor & Publisher: NEW YORK The Audit Bureau of Circulations released circulation numbers for more than 700 daily newspapers this morning for the six-month period ending September 2007. Of the top 25 papers in daily circulation (see chart, separate story), only four showed gains.According to an analysis of ABC figures, for 538 daily U.S. newspapers, circulation declined 2.5% to 40,689,617. For 609 papers that filed on Sunday, overall circulation dropped 3.5% to 46,771,486. The percentages are based on comparisons from the same period a year ago.For The...

NEW YORK The Audit Bureau of Circulations released circulation numbers for more than 700 daily newspapers this morning for the six-month period ending September 2007. Of the top 25 papers in daily circulation (see chart, separate story), only four showed gains. For The New York Times, daily circulation fell 4.51% to 1,037,828 and Sunday plunged 7.59% to 1,500,394, at least partly due to a price increase. Daily circulation at The Washington Post was down 3.2% to 635,087 and Sunday was down 3.9% to 894,428. Daily circulation at The Boston Globe tumbled 6.6% to 360,695 and Sunday fell about the same,...

Even though all the Founding Fathers pretended that they hated the media (which then meant newspapers and tract publishing) each of them had their very own newspaper supporters and nearly all paid for tracts that supported their viewpoints and policies to be published. These tracts and newspapers were usually subscription supported, but sometimes they were freely distributed. Flash forward to today in Chicago. Today, thanks to a law ushered in the back door right under everyone's noses, it is illegal to distribute free newspapers. Were the Founders alive today, Richard Daley, King of Chicago, would prevent them from distributing their...

Colorado State University is still experiencing the fallout from a profane editorial that ran in the college's student newspaper two weeks ago. CSU police investigated a threat that was called into The Rocky Mountain Collegian last week. Advertising in the newspaper and other student- run media organizations remains down. And at least one parent of a CSU student might withdraw her daughter from the school. "It's true. We are reconsidering schools," said Casper resident Cathy Ide, whose daughter, Holly Loucks, is a sophomore construction management major. The school's alumni relations and admissions offices have also received calls and e-mails concerning...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Colorado State University's student newspaper is dealing with fallout for using a four-letter word in an editorial yesterday on President Bush. The Coloradoan reports that the Rocky Mountain Collegian has lost $30,000 in advertising and had to cut student employee pay and other budgets by ten percent. Editor-in-Chief J. David McSwane says the newspaper's advisers had no idea it planned to run the editorial. CSU President Larry Penley says he expects readers to make their viewpoints known and that the newspaper will answer to its readers. The university, through its ten-member faculty-student Board of Student...

Newspaper Snookered in Bizarre Story Demonizing Karl Rove? The Pasadena Pundit - Sept. 3, 2007 The Pasadena Star News is out with a column by Frank Clark, an "occasional contributor" to the newspaper from Arcadia, California which alleges that, upon his resignation last week, Karl Rove, former Presidential Advisor to George W. Bush, never talked about his adopted father who allegedly was a body piercer and gay. See: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_6781463 The story cited above is a doctored version of a prior bizarre story entitled "A Little Bit of History" published in the August 16 issue of the BME News (Body Modification...

CAIRO, Egypt - Saudi Arabia has indefinitely banned the distribution of a leading Arab newspaper, days after the paper disclosed that a Saudi extremist had played a key role in a violent Iraqi al-Qaida front group. One of the kingdom's most influential journalists immediately criticized the ban, calling it a sharp retreat from recent growing press freedoms. It was unclear if the Iraqi article was the main impetus for the ban, or merely the culmination of several weeks of disputes, mostly on other issues, between the Al Hayat newspaper and the kingdom's information minister. Saudi officials are sensitive to criticism...

E.W. Scripps Looking for Buyer for Albuquerque Tribune CINCINNATI (AP) -- Newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps Co. said Tuesday it is seeking a buyer for The Albuquerque Tribune, an afternoon newspaper based in Albuquerque, N.M. that publishes Monday through Saturday. E.W. Scripps will shut down the newspaper if it cannot find a "qualified" buyer, but did not indicate how long it will search for a new investor or what price it was seeking for the newspaper. The Albuquerque Tribune currently has a joint operating agreement with the Albuquerque Journal, the daily morning newspaper in the city. That deal, which is scheduled...

Times-Union Editor Regrets Offensive Word In Cartoon Readers, NAACP Complain To Newspaper UPDATED: 12:35 pm EDT August 20, 2007 This cartoon on the editorial page of Friday's Florida Times-Union generated strong reaction from readers and the leader of the NAACP. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An editorial cartoon taking shot at those who fail to turn in violent criminals generated controversy, then a response from the Florida Times-Union. The cartoon appeared on the editorial page of Friday's newspaper with a caption saying, "The new rule of law." It shows what appears to be a man shot, and a gunman standing over the...

Far as I can tell, it's a children's video that teaches a lesson while making fun of old media.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessean in Nashville, the state's largest daily newspaper, has approved buyouts for 24 employees. President and Publisher Ellen Leifeld said the buyouts include eight newsroom staffers. She said the paper, despite its dominant position in the Nashville region, has struggled the same as other metro papers as the industry copes with declining readership and advertising revenue. The Tennessean and its community newspapers employ 870 full-time staffers. Leifeld announced the buyout offer last month. Sixty-six employees requested the buyout, but only 24 were accepted.

NEW YORK Fourteen employees of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, including 10 newsroom staffers, have taken a buyout offer, the second such staff cut in eight months, the paper reported today. The Pioneer Press let 29 employees go in a similar buyout last December, which included 22 newsroom employees. The paper also reported laying off two part-time workers in the library and cutting "an unspecified number of open jobs." "I said at the beginning of this process that we were hoping to be able to take at least 15 buyouts [in the newsroom.] We are not. But this combination...

NEW YORK It looks like The Indianapolis Star followed the buyout plan it launched last month, according to a Newspaper Guild official, who said editors today announced that 22 people would get the buyouts, including five newsroom employees. "This is consistent with what the company had planned," said Abe Aamidor, president of the Newspaper Guild Local 70. "There wasn't much of a hollabaloo because there weren't many." Aamidor said the buyouts will go to 22 of the company's 1,047 staffers. Five of the newsroom's 255 employees have accepted. Those include; copy editor Rita Rose, designer Dennis Hoffman, former travel writer...

CHICAGO The Chicago Sun-Times is turning left. The tabloid that shifted toward political conservatism under the brief ownership of Rupert Murdoch more than two decades ago now says that it is "rethinking our stance on several issues, including the most pressing issue facing Americans today: Bush's war in Iraq."

CHICAGO The Chicago Sun-Times is turning left. The tabloid that shifted toward political conservatism under the brief ownership of Rupert Murdoch more than two decades ago now says that it is "rethinking our stance on several issues, including the most pressing issue facing Americans today: Bush's war in Iraq." Under marching orders from Publisher John Cruickshank and Editor in Chief Michael Cooke, new Editorial Page Editor Cheryl L. Reed introduced a new Commentary section Tuesday with a promise to turn the tabloid back into the liberal-leaning paper it was for decades before the Reagan administration. "We are returning to our...

The Roanoke Times announced on its on-line site today it is offering voluntary buyouts to 21 eligible employees. The statement says the offer is part of the company's plan "to maintain The Roanoke Times' fiscal integrity". The statement from publisher Debbie Meade reads in part, "we anticipate a need for a reduction in our workforce to occur sometime this year. Prior to conducting any involuntary workforce reductions that might be needed, we are making a voluntary retirement incentive offer." Those who take it would begin retirement on September 1st. Meade says the paper has eliminated or frozen 27 positions. It...

The San Jose Mercury News laid off 31 newsroom employees on Monday, as part of a series of cost-cutting moves since being purchased last year by Denver-based MediaNews. Mercury News managers delivered the bad news to the laid-off employees during a series of phone calls to their homes on Monday morning. All Merc newsroom staffers were told to stay home and wait by their phones in case they were on the list to be called. A list of the laid-off employees is after the jump. The layoffs included veteran reporter Dan Reed, longtime crime reporter Rod Foo, Sacramento-bureau reporter Kate...

DENVER Seven newsroom employees at The Denver Post have been laid off, in addition to 14 others who accepted buyout offers, Editor Gregory L. Moore said Tuesday. The newspaper said last week that 16 employees accepted buyouts, but two changed their minds, Moore said. The Post, which is owned by MediaNews Group Inc., took the action amid an industrywide restructuring as newspapers cope with declining readership and advertising revenue. "For the moment, I think we are where we need to be on the budget," Moore said. Denver-based MediaNews is the nation's fourth-largest newspaper group. It operates the Post in a...

Greensboro, NC -- Reading the morning paper with a cup of coffee is not as common as it used to be. Managers at the News & Record say declining readership forced them to lay off more than 40 workers. A story printed in Friday's local section blames the job cuts on increased competition from internet news sites. Northwest Observer Publisher Patti Stokes said, "We're a now generation. We don't want to wait until tomorrow morning's newspaper comes out to find out what just happened." This is a nationwide phenomenon. Newspapers lost 2% of their readers in the last 6 months....

CHICAGO — Long-delayed circulation figures released Friday for the Chicago Sun-Times showed steep declines at the city's No. 2 daily. A report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed that the Sun-Times' weekday paid newspaper circulation averaged 349,968 from April to September 2005, down nearly 9 percent from 382,796 for the previous six months. Circulation of the Sunday paper was 281,129, a 16 percent drop from 333,490 for the previous six-month period. The report was delayed after the Audit Bureau censured the Sun-Times for misstatements in 2004. Neal Lulofs, a spokesman for the agency, said the other delayed Sun-Times circulation...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Chronicle's managing editor is stepping down as the Hearst Corp.-owned newspaper braces for a round of deep editorial job cuts. Robert Rosenthal, who joined the Chronicle five years ago, said in a note to staff Tuesday that he is leaving the paper "without rancor or acrimony." He does not have another job lined up, but wants to "help another organization grow and another group of talented people find success." Rosenthal, who leaves his post on Friday, said Wednesday that his departure was not prompted by any personal conflicts, but rather was intended to give...

Some of us in America were be in observance of Memorial Day 2007. While some of us reflected on those who have died defending our country almost every day, some of us took the opportunity to reflect because the holiday dictates such. There are also some who wished to use this day to continue their protest of the war while there are people in harm's way. In this case, I speak of New York Times writer Michael Kamber and the Times in general. While fewer and fewer people are reading the New York Times, one can only hope those trying...

The State newspaper will stop delivery and newsstand sales along the coast and Upstate next Friday. Facing increased delivery costs, The State’s management decided to discontinue sales in 18 coastal and Piedmont counties — about 3,500 copies or 3 percent of the paper’s 107,000 daily circulation. The paper will deliver in 25 of South Carolina’s 46 counties. The State will be available statewide by mail subscription and free through its Web site, www.thestate.com. “Our world is changing at a rapid pace, and new technology is affecting everything we do,” publisher Henry Haitz said in a written statement. “The cost to...

Sun-Times Media Group Inc. will eliminate some unprofitable community publications as part of a plan to turn the ailing newspaper publisher around, the company said Wednesday. A sale of the flagship Chicago Sun-Times, long speculated about, is possible but is unlikely before next year when its finances are expected to show improvement, Freidheim said. "By the end of '08, we intend to have ownership options and a strategy for growth," he said. In addition, the company, which also publishes about 100 community newspapers in the Chicago metropolitan area, will continue to consolidate its printing capabilities and reduce corporate expenses. The...

Falwell's judgment day The Rev. Jerry Falwell died Tuesday. A lifetime spent judging others has ended. The Rev. Jerry Falwell met with his maker Tuesday. We hope he was embraced by a loving, forgiving God. Falwell did enough judging for any one man here on Earth during his 73 years. His most dramatic proclamation -- one for which he would apologize but that cost him many supporters -- came in the days following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Falwell blamed it on gays, lesbians, feminists and liberals. He commonly attacked these groups as being responsible for the moral...

With 50 newsroom staffers leaving, how will the newspaper preserve the journalism that readers need? For a couple of years, the staff at this newspaper has watched other large metro dailies around the country and even right across the river in St. Paul endure painful staff cuts to cope with an old economic model for newspapers that just isn't working anymore. Classified advertising has migrated largely online, and revenues are down. Layoffs and buyouts at newspapers have come by the hundreds. Last week, like ominous dark clouds suddenly pelting us with golf-ball-sized hail, staffing cuts arrived at the Star Tribune....

The Minneapolis-based Star Tribune newspaper said this afternoon it will cut 145 jobs as it struggles to deal with declining ad revenues. The reductions, coming primarily through buyouts, will include 50 newsroom jobs. The cuts follow an earlier round of 24 buyouts in the newsroom, which were part of a program mandated by union contract following the purchase of the newspaper by Avista Capital Partners, a private equity firm. Employees' initial reaction was that it would be difficult to find 50 buyout-takers in the newsroom, said Chris Serres, a reporter and union representative at the paper. "It's not realistic," he...

New York Times 1Q Profit Drops on Weakness in Print Advertising, Charges NEW YORK (AP) -- Newspaper publisher New York Times Co. said Thursday that its first-quarter profit fell 26 percent, hurt by weakness in print advertising and various charges. Earnings declined to $23.9 million, or 17 cents per share, from $32.4 million, or 22 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Income from continuing operations dropped to $20.1 million, or 14 cents per share, from $30.5 million, or 21 cents per share, in the previous year. The current quarter's results were hurt by an accelerated depreciation expense of $6.7...

The distributor of conservative pundit Ann Coulter’s column, Universal Press Syndicate, has no plans to drop her column despite the flap she created with her recent "faggot” comment. Coulter used the gay slur in reference to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards during a March 2 speech at the American Conservative Union’s Political Action Conference. So far three newspapers that carried her column have announced that they would stop running it, and the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign has launched a letter-writing effort demanding that Universal stop distributing the column. But in a statement, Universal’s president and editor Lee Salem...

Instant poll: Should the U of M give Al Gore an honorary doctorate? University President Robert Bruininks said recently that two of the colleges were working to award a degree to the former vice president. Yes. He's done important work to save the environment No. He's a master of junk science Don't know

The Ochs-Sulzberger family, which controls The New York Times Company, said yesterday that it was withdrawing most of its personal assets, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, from Morgan Stanley. “Custody of the majority of the assets of the Ochs-Sulzberger family are being moved from Morgan Stanley to another institution,” said Catherine J. Mathis, a spokeswoman for the Times Company. Through a spokesman, the family also declined to comment. The withdrawal was apparently first reported online by CNNMoney.com, which suggested that the move was in retaliation against one of Morgan Stanley’s fund managers, who has been critical of the company’s...

LORDSBURG, New Mexico The 120-year-old Lordsburg Liberal will close its doors after putting out its final edition Feb. 2. The newspaper's parent company, MediaNews Group, said it decided to shut down the weekly paper because of a challenging economic climate. "The Liberal's history and its soul will always remain in the hearts of those of us who grew up with this great tradition," said publisher and editor Lorenzo Alba. David McClain, regional director of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership, which operates the Liberal and other area newspapers, said ceasing the Liberal's publication will allow the Hidalgo County Herald to grow....

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The world's oldest newspaper, Sweden's Post och Inrikes Tidningar, has embraced the digital age, ending its run as a print publication and opting to be published exclusively on the Internet. Founded in 1645 by Queen Christina, the Post och Inrikes Tidningar (PoIT) -- or Post and Domestic Newspapers -- was a staple for readers in Sweden throughout the late 17th and 18th century. But its readership dwindled as rival newspapers appeared, confining PoIT primarily to the publication of announcements from publicly listed companies, and financial and legal institutions by the 1900s. While the paper has not covered...