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  Latest closing: WSJ shuts Boston bureau
It's just the most recent example of this month's deep job cuts, which extend to Forbes, Time Inc., the New York Times and Conde Nast

  Not all papers saw big circ declines
A few actually grew, most of them smaller local papers offering news readers can't find elsewhere. Lessons from their surprising upticks.

  Newspaper circulation drops 11 percent
Weekdays suffer first ever double-digit decline for six months ended Sept. 30. Sunday editions fall 7.5 percent for the period.

  Newsday: We're putting up a pay wall
Cablevision-owned paper will charge $5 per week for nonsubscribers, becoming the latest newspaper to reject the free web model

  NYT: We're cutting 100 newsroom jobs
First come voluntary buyouts, then layoffs as the nation's biggest newsroom braces to lose 8 percent of its 1,250-person staff

  'Wanted: Critic to review marijuana'
The ad ran in Denver's alternative weekly Westword, and it's drawn lots of attention. Talking with editor Patricia Calhoun.

  NYT: We're keeping the Boston Globe
Times Co. abandons plan to sell the paper after disappointing bids, ending a soap opera that included contentious union negotiations

  Globe: We may wall off our web site
Boston.com could start charging for content, though the details have not been worked out. Would follow lead of WSJ and FT.

  News Corp.: We're walling off our news
The big change will happen sometime over the next fiscal year. CEO Murdoch: 'We intend to charge for all news sites.'

  Globe union finally okays new contract
Agrees to 6 percent pay cut six weeks after nixing first contract offer. Up next: Finding a new owner for the newspaper.




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