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• Wall Street Journal now nation's No. 1 daily

  BNET - 2009-10-14

  NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States. The Audit Bureau of Circulations won't be releasing its latest figures until Oct. 26, but the Journal said Wednesday that it gained about 12,000 subscribers in the April-September period, compared...

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• BMW Pumps Diesel in a Big Way

  BNET - 2009-08-10

  NEW YORK For many Americans who came of age in the ‘70s, diesel is a dirty word, redolent of grimy exhaust fumes and percussive knocking in the engine block. While diesel-powered vehicles enjoyed a brief surge of popularity during the 1979 oil crisis, the soot and noise outweighed any savings...

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• Circulation drops again for top U.S. newspapers

  - 2008-04-29

  NEW YORK AP -- Top U.S. newspapers posted further declines in circulation Monday with the exception of USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, which have held up better than others as more readers go online. Apart from those two national dailies, which eked out gains of under...

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• The Intellectual Devotional: American History By David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim Makes You Smarter One Day at a Time

  - 2007-11-05

  NEW YORK -- It's official: Americans are hungry for history and getting smarter one day at a time with THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL: American History by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim, an innovative book that brings together the digital age and the bedside table. THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL: American...

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• 'Good newspaper is not necessarily dull'

  - 2007-01-05

  The new year this week saw a highly publicized attempted regeneration of a 118-year-old newspaper, which once was No. 1 in the nation. This year also will mark the 25th anniversary (Sept. 15) of the new kid on the block who dethroned the former champ. The past 25-year history of...

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• Other Recommended Reading

  - 2006-09-01

  Grain of Salt Econospinning by Gene Epstein The business world spins around numbers, from the headlines of USA Today to the fine print of The Wall Street Journal. Too bad the numbers spin too, says Gene Epstein, Barron's economics editor. Fed up with how liberal and conservative media manipulate economic...

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• THE FN LIST: PAPER TRAIL: NEWSPAPERS WITH LARGEST WEEKDAY CIRCULATIONS; EVEN AS THE INTERNET CONTINUES TO STEAL AD DOLLARS AWAY AND CIRCULATIONS DECLINE, THE NATION'S MAJOR NEWSPAPERS, INCLUDING USA TODAY, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND THE NEW YORK TIMES ST

  - 2005-10-24

  Newspaper: Daily Circulation*; % Change 1. USA Today: 2,199,052; 0.3 Since its inception 23 years ago, USA Today has grown into the country's largest newspaper, nearly doubling the circulation of The New York Times. It also boasts a daily readership...

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• Crix' picks.(Film / International)(Illustration)

  - 2004-05-10

  CRIX' PICKS NEW YORK Mean Girls ...

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• Business news web sites differ from newspapers in business content

  - 2003-04-01

  The growth of competition in broadcast television, in weekly magazines and, most recently, on the Internet inevitably has impacted newspaper circulation. Changing lifestyles with greater emphases on recreation and other outdoor activities also apparently have caused the decline of newspaper circulations.1 In addition, the difficult readability of newspapers may be...

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• Online news: Publishers see rise in Q2 ad revenue.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2002-08-12

  While the overall advertising sector remains in the dumps, some prominent Web publishers saw a second-quarter surge in ad revenue. Fourteen Online Publishers Association member sites saw a 34.2% rise over the same period in 2001, and a 33.5% rise year-to-date. Among Web properties reporting data...

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