Newspaper News

• Newspaper headlines convey seriousness of COVID-19 surge across the country
  
  As COVID-19 surges nationwide, the seriousness of the virus's latest wave is reflected in headlines from cities and states across the country.
  ABC News.  Saturday, 31 Jul 2021.
• PETER HITCHENS: Which is worse? Having an opinion or failing to tell readers the facts?
  
  PETER HITCHENS: It is as if you were living in China and if we, at this newspaper, had not done as we did, you might as well have been.
  Daily Mail.  Sunday, 1 Aug 2021.
• Alden Closes Bowie Blade-News After Buying Tribune Publishing, Its Owner
  
  Since Alden Global Capital bought the Tribune Publishing newspaper chain, newsrooms have shrunk and a Maryland weekly has shut down.
  New York Times.  Friday, 30 Jul 2021.
• Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Charged With Sexually Assaulting Teen, Report Says
  
  Charges stem from an incident involving a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception at Wellesley College in the 1970s, the Boston Globe newspaper reports.
  Voice of America.  Thursday, 29 Jul 2021.
• Ronan Keating accepts phone hacking damages
  
  The ex-Boyzone singer's lawyers told the High Court of the distress caused by newspapers stories.
  BBC News.  Monday, 26 Jul 2021.
• Newspaper headlines: Pingdemic 'to last weeks' and healthy 'rewards' planned
  
  Several of Saturday's papers also carry images of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
  BBC News.  Friday, 23 Jul 2021.
• Yodel manager stole phones to pay off loan shark - but was caught when bosses set up spy cameras
  
  Julie Birchenough, from Lancashire, borrowed cash from a lender she found in a newspaper, but when she was unable to repay the debt straight away, she was forced into a string of thefts.
  Daily Mail.  Friday, 23 Jul 2021.
• Journalists Say Sakhalin Newspaper Shut Down Over Reporting On Russian Coal Producer
  
  The editor of the municipal newspaper in the Sakhalin Island town of Uglegorsk has been fired, publication suspended, and the paper's website taken offline. ...
  Radio Liberty.  Wednesday, 21 Jul 2021.
• Hong Kong Police Arrest Another Editor Of Now-Defunct Pro-Democracy Newspaper
  
  'Whoever committed an offense will be arrested'
  Daily Caller.  Wednesday, 21 Jul 2021.
• John P. McMeel, Newspaper Syndicator With a Difference, Dies at 85
  
  He and his business partner started in a basement, recruited a Yale student cartoonist named Garry Trudeau, and built the largest company of its kind.
  New York Times.  Tuesday, 20 Jul 2021.
• Man who killed 5 at Capital Gazette found criminally responsible
  
  Ramos blocked the rear door of the Capital Gazette newsroom and killed five journalists in June 2018, after several years of conflict with the newspaper.
  CBS News.  Thursday, 15 Jul 2021.
• Rothermere family plots £810m bid to take Daily Mail publisher private
  
  The Daily Mail's founding family is plotting an offer to take the company behind Britain's biggest-selling national newspaper private - move that would end 90 years of stock market history.
  Sky News.  Monday, 12 Jul 2021.
• Critics: Postal Service plans imperil community newspapers
  
  The U.S. Postal Service's plan to raise mailing rates could present one more damaging blow to community newspapers already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and advertising declines, a trade group says. ...
  Washington Times.  Thursday, 8 Jul 2021.
• Propane explosion levels Michigan house; no one injured
  
  A propane explosion leveled a Michigan house just minutes after a newspaper delivery man got the family to safety.
  ABC News.  Tuesday, 6 Jul 2021.
• Japan Considers Plan to Limit Spectators at Olympics Opening Ceremony
  
  Asahi Shimbun newspaper says idea is part of larger plan that would also include banning visitors from attending events at large venues and at night.
  Voice of America.  Tuesday, 6 Jul 2021.

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