Newspaper Giant Tribune Co. Developing Tablet Device

"Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own. The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans to offer to newspaper subscribers, according to people briefed on the plans.

Google Ends Project to Digitize Newspaper Archives

"?Google is stopping the scanners on its ambitious project to build an archive of the world’s newspapers."

More Media Sites Customizing News for You

"Tech and media companies are in a race to sap the serendipity from news consumption and distill readers' interests into an algorithm."

New York Times Paywall Coming March 28

"The New York Times announced 'digital subscriptions' on Thursday, revealing the long-awaited details of its paywall plan. Starting March 28, non-subscribers will be able to read only 20 online articles for free each month."

'The Daily' Launches on iPad for 99 Cents a Week

"News Corp. launched its most ambitious effort yet to re-invent the way news is delivered and consumed with the introduction Wednesday of The Daily— the first national news publication designed specifically for Apple's iPad."

Online Paid News Service Launched for Big Papers

"A personalized news service funded by New York Times Co., Washington Post Co., and Gannett Co launched on Tuesday in an attempt to get readers to pay for online news."

Magazines, Newspapers Still in Talks Over iPad Newsstand, Report Says

"Buzz has been picking up lately about Apple opening an iBooks-like distribution medium for the iPad, but for magazine and newspaper subscriptions."

Americans Spending More Time Reading News

"Americans are spending more time reading the news now than they have at any time during the last decade, according to a new study."

Report: Murdoch's News Corp. Readying Digital Newspaper

"Rupert Murdoch has long championed pay walls for online news content, and now the News Corp. chairman is reportedly working on a newspaper that would be available exclusively on mobile devices like Apple's iPad and smartphones."

Historic Newspapers: Chronicling America Adds 275K Digitized Pages

The collection now has over 2.3 million pages of digitized newspapers.

Publishers See Signs the iPad Can Restore Ad Money

"Good news for the news business: Companies are paying newspapers and magazines up to five times as much to place ads in their iPad..."

British Library to Digitise 40m of its Newspaper Pages

"The British Library has announced a 10-year project to make 40m pages from its newspaper archive available online."

Survey: People Prefer Free Online News

"The project's report contained an extensive look at habits of the estimated six in 10 Americans who say they get at least some news online during a typical day. On average, each person spends three minutes and four seconds per visit to a news site."

Will You Be E-Mailing This Article?

"Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have intensively studied the New York Times list of most-e-mailed articles, checking it every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page. The results are surprising..."

Report: New York Times to Charge Online Readers

"The New York Times is reportedly getting ready to charge readers for access to the venerable newspaper's online content. The newspaper is expected to announce in coming weeks that it will institute a metered pay plan in which readers would have access to a limited number of free articles before being invited to subscribe, according to a report in New York magazine that cited sources close to the newsroom."

Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information

"There are more places to go for local news but less news to find there, and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is scheduled to be released on Monday."

Publishers Forming 'Magazine iTunes'

"Major magazine publishers including Time Inc. and Conde Nast hope to exert some control over digital readership with a joint venture enabling readers to buy copies of the New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and many other mags from a single website, the New York Times reports."

The Online Competition to Save Newspapers

"When beleaguered executives from top newspaper companies met at a Chicago airport hotel in late May, they decided they needed a savior — that is, a tech company to help them figure out ways to make money online. Letters inviting solutions went out to 10 companies, and in July the responses discreetly rolled in."

Tech Giants Offer Ideas on Charging Readers Online

"Some of the world's most prominent technology companies are offering suggestions to publishers on how they can charge readers for news online. IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. — a company some newspapers blame for helping dig their financial hole — responded to a request by the Newspaper Association of America for proposals on ways to easily charge for news on the Web."

British Library Publishes Online Archive of 19th-Century Newspapers

"Over two million pages of 19th and early 20th century newspapers go online today, part of the vast British Library collection. . .Searches are free, but users can pay to download information."