Articles about Newspapers

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post slashes hundreds of jobs — including newspaper’s Amazon reporter

Technology reporter Caroline O’Donovan, covered Amazon at the Post for almost four years and previously wrote an award-winning investigation at BuzzFeed into Amazon’s delivery network. Read More

Will Bezos step in? FBI searches Wash. Post reporter’s home in classified materials investigation

Federal agents seized electronic devices from reporter Hannah Natanson, who covers the federal workforce for the newspaper. Read More

Amazon inks deal with New York Times to license newspaper’s content for AI platforms

Amazon and The New York Times have agreed to a new deal in which the newspaper’s editorial content will be… Read More

Jeff Bezos shakes up Washington Post opinion section to focus on ‘personal liberties, free markets’

Jeff Bezos is shaking up the opinion pages at The Washington Post again, telling employees Wednesday morning that the section… Read More

Jeff Bezos blamed for spiking Washington Post’s presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris

The Washington Post is getting out of the business of endorsing candidates for president, starting with the upcoming election between… Read More

Jeff Bezos makes rare visit to Washington Post as newspaper plans more layoffs

Jeff Bezos made news this week with a rare visit to the newspaper that he owns. The Amazon founder attended… Read More

Washington Post editor talks Bezos and Amazon, and how billionaire owner reshaped newspaper

The editor who has been in charge of The Washington Post newsroom ever since Jeff Bezos bought the newspaper is… Read More

After ditching print papers, Starbucks announces free digital access to news sites in its cafes

News this summer that Starbucks would be pulling print copies of The New York Times and other publications from its… Read More

Extra! Extra! room for cream, but not newspapers, as Starbucks to stop selling NY Times and others

Stop the (French) presses. According to a report in the New York Post this week, Starbucks is going to stop… Read More

Game preview: Create your own ’90s newspaper in editor-in-chief simulator ‘Above the Fold’

It’s early 1998 in Above the Fold, when the internet was still a slow-loading hell of animated GIFs and your… Read More

Washington Post Dot com: Newspaper pushing free Amazon device to lure new digital subscribers

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly stays clear of the day-to-day operations of The Washington Post. But for a better understanding… Read More

After 58 years, my parents ditched their daily print newspaper for iPads — here’s the scoop on that

This is a story about newspapers. Unlike a lot of stories these days about the demise of print, I think… Read More

Washington Post’s new Kindle Fire app has Jeff Bezos written all over it

Not every newspaper can lean on one of the world’s top tech executives as a beta tester and adviser when developing a new… Read More

Digitally clueless: Why I finally canceled the Seattle Times

Dear Seattle Times executives, I’m writing you in the traditional letter-to-the-editor format because it’s one with which I’m certain you’re… Read More

Gawker’s Nick Denton knows exactly what Jeff Bezos should do with The Washington Post: Ditch print, distribute Kindles

Nick Denton is a controversial new media titan, uncovering the gossip that no one else in the news business will… Read More

Jeff Bezos says Don Graham talked him into buying Washington Post

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped something of a bombshell in an interview with Charlie Rose that was posted on the 60… Read More

Which Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post?

William Randolph Hearst. Joseph Pulitzer. John S. Knight. Katharine Graham. And now … Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has… Read More

A wild idea for Bezos and the Post: Develop a ‘Kindle Printer’ and shut down the main press

The economics of delivering a local newspaper to your doorstep just don’t make sense anymore. The reasons? Declining subscriber counts… Read More

Comedians have fun with Jeff Bezos buy of The Washington Post

Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post was the big news of the week, making great fodder for late-night comedians.… Read More

Memo: Bezos already giving Washington Post employees some of that Amazon religion

Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million in his individual capacity, separate from his role at… Read More

Seattle Times sells old HQ near Amazon campus, plans to use cash for digital transition

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is undergoing a radical transformation, driven largely by the arrival of technology companies such as… Read More

Oregonian lays off 35, cuts back on home delivery to focus on digital

Another daily newspaper is going digital and slowing the presses, as The Oregonian announced Thursday that it will be cutting down… Read More

The future of news, as viewed from 1993: What we got right, and very wrong

For journalism, the future isn’t what it used to be. Especially when viewed from two decades ago. I recently undertook… Read More

The best and worst jobs in America: From software geeks to newspaper hacks

It’s a good thing we got out of the newspaper business. According to a survey out today from CareerCast.com, newspaper… Read More

Startup Spotlight: TinyPass looks to line publishers’ pockets with new way to charge for content

In an opinion piece for Bloomberg this week, former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold lamented the demise of the… Read More

Kindle’s NYT subscribers get their NYTimes.com access

Amazon.com this morning followed through on a promised perk for Kindle users who subscribe to the New York Times on… Read More

NYT paywall: Time to buy the cow; the milk’s no longer free

Guest Commentary: The day of reckoning has arrived. Journalists and PR professionals have been holding their breath for 18 months,… Read More

Survey: More Americans now consume their news online than in newspapers

The news business has been undergoing radical shifts and changes over the past 10 years, brought on by advances in… Read More