Today is the 'State of The Times' meeting, the annual New York Times get-together to which publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. sometimes brings props -- he once famously produced a moose, perhaps this year he will go with the recently popularized chalkboard! (more...)

It's not your imagination, newspapers are getting smaller. I bought the Sunday Times this weekend for the first time in ages -- primarily because I wanted an actual copy of the Nicholas Kristoff-woman's rights themed Sunday magazine -- and it was positively thin; I actually double-checked all the sections were intact before purchasing. However there's nothing like cold hard numbers to bring the dire reality home. The AP filed this report yesterday about another severe slump in ad sales. (more...)