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I contacted my local newspapers to write about my business but they say they will only write articles about my business if I place some ads. Is this the only way. I just started my business and want some publicity.

Ahh. now you’re right up my alley….

I spend all day turning businesses away from the newspaper I work for; only to suggest they might call me after work for some tips. (really you advertising people out there should take this tip to heart, I’ve gotten a few really nice advertisers out of this).

First, contact your local chamber of commerce and hold a ribbon cutting. Often the local paper will run ribbon-cutting ceremonies submitted by the chamber; also they typically have a business section – write your own article about the ‘new’ business in town and submit it to the business editor or business section.

Write a letter to the editor (this is where you have to be creative)… Pick a semi-important topic. Here’s an example, you’ll have to adjust to your own business. "I just opened a new glassware shop downtown on main street, and I’m really concerned about the garbage trucks in the neighborhood. They have been slamming the containers, causing my merchandise to rattle and vibrate on the shelves. When I lose some of my one-of-a-kind works, should I send my bill to the sanitation department or the city?"

Ok right now, you’re saying huh? but… you just got a great ad – read between the lines… New glassware shope downtown on main street, one-of-a-kind works. … (you may need to be a little more sneaky than that, but it works)

If you have ample space, contact a local civic group (boy scouts, girl scouts, local pepband, etc) and offer to let them use your parking lot for a car wash, or better yet, a recycle collection site; local papers eat up those civic groups doing a good cause thing; and when they preview the article and/or write the article, they will have "local boy scouts collected recycable goods in the parking lot of GottaBeGood Beads Saturday to bring awarness to the city’s recycling needs."

There are more ideas, but I hope these help get you started.

I have a small collection of historic newspapers of major events, but they’re just sitting in a random pile. Is there something made especially for this purpose that I can keep these papers in? Can it be a display type thing?

you can preserve your historic newspapers in a box.

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I’d like to collect, or have delivered, some newspapers in other languages. However, when I search online I can only find places that deliver to London or Edinburgh.

Does anyone know of a specialist newsagent in Liverpool that sells foreign newspapers? Or do they sell them at one of Liverpool’s airports, maybe?

Thanks in advance!

Erm I think the streets called Mount Pleasant (near the wigwam/at the bottom of that street) there’s a newsagents there and I once bought a japanese newspaper there (not sure if they still do asian newspapers) but they very def still sell a lot arabic (and maybe turkish) language newspapers, good luck – if they haven’t got what you’re looking for ask them, they might know and they’re friendly enough there (If you’re looking for chinese try the chinese supermarket near the gates – I think that’s called hope street…)

From town tabloids to major metropolitan dailies, newspapers seem to be in their last throes. The availability of free and instant news online, the high profit margins demanded by media conglomerates, and the steep declines in advertising revenue have hit newspapers hard. They have been forced to lay off employees, trim their pages, close print operations or — as The Hearst Corp. has threatened to do to the San Francisco Chronicle — shut down completely.

Will a new model or medium rise to do what newspapers have aimed to do for over a century — pursue accuracy and objectivity, doggedly investigate stories, act as a check on power, embody a community’s conversation with itself, and write a first draft of history? Or will the demise of newspapers mean a radical shift in what we know and how we know it? The New America Foundation and Zócalo host a panel-including former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll, Slate founder Michael Kinsley, and former San Francisco Chronicle executive vice president and editor Phil Bronstein-to discuss the decline of print media and the future of journalism.

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I’m moving to Cheltenham soon and would like to know the names of local newspapers so I can find somewhere to rent.

Citizen and Gloucester Echo.

Which magazines and newspapers in print do you think will survive the shift to digital and why?

The threat to print from online is old news. But who is surviving? What techniques are making the difference? With banner ads clicking through at .4 % this revenue stream in its current form must be nearing the end. What will replace it?

In it’s current form, none of them will survive. However, I think publications like Spot.us, and the new InDenverTimes.com websites will be the new wave of the future.

Spot.us, if you aren’t familiar, uses readers themselves to fund stories, with interested readers pledging as little as $3 to the investigation of a story. Readers only pay and journalists only work if their estimate is reached, so everyone ends as happily as a crowd can be.

In Denver Times is the new site put on by a number of former Rocky Mountain News employees and is a very smart idea. The news, in brief, is free on their site. In depth coverage, opinions, etc. all are available upon subscription, which can be as little as $5 per year. It’s a pretty smart idea and is likely to be the new format of online papers in the future, in my oh so humble opinion.

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I live in east mids, and would love to get some experience in journalism or media. I am planning to paply for internships at the newspapers and magazines, im so desperate to get out and see the world and experience it. Im just curious, whats the best way to qualify for an internship at these places, and how can i make myself stand out?

careers.scienceontheweb.net – I found such internship info here. It has lots of internships, job openings and scolarships for college students.