Newspaper

After 168 years in print, The News of the World, Britain’s most widely read newspaper, will publish its final issue on Sunday. News Corporation, NoW’s parent company, made the decision in order to stanch the bleeding from an ongoing hacking scandal.

A national paper shortage has caused the price of used newsprint to soar. Joe Richman reports on a night he spent on patrol with the New York City “recycling” police. Their mission: to rid the city of curbside newspaper bandits.

Non-profit advocacy groups haven’t always been able to reserve full-page advertising to promote their messages. Rates have traditionally been too high for start-ups and non-profits to afford. But Joe Therrien says major newspapers like the New York Times are starting to offer special rates for non-profits that may change the face of advertising.

Jacqueline Banaszynski, who holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism, talks to Farai and John about what it means to a community to lose a newspaper.

Newspapers are struggling to find a workable business model as readers migrate on-line, but one entrepreneur thinks paper and ink still have a place. Joshua Karp explains his start-up, a twice-daily free print newspaper called The Printed Blog.