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Is The Washington Post in full-scale collapse? A recent look at the numbers provides a fairly convincing answer to that question. According to the report, not only is the Post losing $100 million a year, but it lost over half of its online engagement by the end of 2023. The signs were already there by mid-year, and the worst has come to pass. See: The Washington Post Is Facing a Financial Buzzsaw“Of that audience, less than one in five read more than a single article per month, while less than one in 500 actually convert to a paying subscription.”— Josh...

NEW YORK -- The rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the Internet the destination of choice for consumers looking for news, a report released Monday said. Local, network and cable television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience last year, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization that evaluates and studies the performance of the press. News consumption online increased 17 percent last year from the year before, the project said in its eighth annual State of the News Media survey.

Like an addict vowing to give up booze or heroin, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank is organizing readers to vow to not read about Sarah Palin for the next month. Kristinn Taylor and Andreea Shea King write in Big Journalism: "The Post has picked up the call initiated this morning by Post columnist Dana Milbank, adding a Twitter link on the column page. The link generates a message to be sent from a Twitter member's page that reads, 'I'm making February a Palin-free month. Will you join me?' "The Post added the Twitter link to Milbank's column this afternoon, several...

Washington Times Renews Website and Paper by: Santiago Leon, June 04, 2008 The Washington Times has recently gone from a 20th Century newspaper to a 21st Century multimedia company that most other news organizations have become. The Times renovated their website for the first time in about five years and changed the design, layout, to allow the readers to interact with today’s news. The website will provide videos and audio webcasts that will be of news stories reported by the Times reporters. The videos will also include six to eight original shows from popular personalities of the paper. One of...

Mainstream Media Meltdown II On the occasion of today's gruesome statistics on the continuing fall of newspapers, here's an updated look at mainstream entertainment and media in decline (April's version is here). Down: Box Office: down by 7% this year (tickets per capita have fallen every year since 2001). Newspapers: circulation, which peaked in 1987, is declining faster than ever and is down another 2.6% so far this year. Music: Sales are down another 5.7% this year; although digital downloads (still just 6% of the business) are climbing nicely. Radio: down 4% this year alone, continuing a multi-decade decline. Books:...

IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman Sachs, adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."

NEW YORK - Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Blogs that cover the tsunami disaster and relief efforts are bound to boost readership further, said Lee Rainie, the project's director. "The tsunami is one of those cataclysmic news moments where lots of people's...

The largest newspapers in the U.S. generally had modest circulation gains in the latest six months, but the figures overall were flat, according to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. In the industry's semiannual circulation report, Gannett Co.'s USA Today remained the nation's top-selling newspaper and saw its average daily circulation for the six months ended March 31 rise 1.4% to 2,280,761. A spokesman said the paper benefited from a stronger economy, with more people traveling to both business and leisure destinations. Travelers are key readers for USA Today. The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones &...