Donna Barrett, Peter Horvitz and Steven Swartz also cited for contributions

The American Press Institute has awarded its Lifetime Service Award to Mark Contreras, senior vice president/newspapers for The E.W. Scripps Co. The award, presented at the API board of directors meeting Nov. 9, is given to those who have made life-long contributions to the newspaper industry and recognizes individuals who have significantly supported and promoted the professional advancement and leadership training of newspaper executives. Contreras becomes only the 15th recipient of this award during API's 60-year history.

API announces new officers and directors

Thomas A. Silvestri was elected chairman of the American Press Institute at the organization's board of directors meeting, held here Nov. 9-10. The gavel was passed to Silvestri from outgoing Chairman Mark Contreras, senior vice president/newspapers for The E.W. Scripps Co., who was honored with the API Lifetime Service Award.

Silvestri is publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He has also served as president of Media General Inc.'s community newspaper division, Media General director of news synergy, deputy managing editor and senior editor for business news of the Times-Dispatch, and as a reporter and editor for Gannett Westchester (N.Y.) Newspapers.

Mark Glaser's long, thoughtful interview with Newspaper Next's Steve Gray is here. Much of the discussion is about newspapers' opportunity to become local ad brokers for their business customers.

Below is Richmond Times-Dispatch Publisher Tom Silvestri's column from February 2007, in which he says the need for newspapers to innovate is urgent.

Check here for the latest media coverage on newspaper Next and the report Blueprint for Transformation.

Read the latest article on innovation, convergence, and the future of newspapers in the article Adapt or Die from the American Journalism Review.

Check out this insightful article from the Spring 2006 Nieman Report.

Drew Davis outlines the goals of the Newspaper Next project in the November 2005 issues of Presstime. To view the 133 KB PDF, click here.

Read the Article here.

Read in The Editors Weblog how one editor is putting Newspaper Next into action at his publication.

WBUR.org (NPR), Jan. 05, 2006

Hear about crunch-time for America's newspapers and what the country would do without them.

Guests

• Tom Ronsenstiel, Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, former media critic of the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek


• Roy Peter Clark, Vice President and Senior Scholar at the Poynter Institute -- a non profit, independent institution which teaches journalists and leaders in the media


• Peter Bathia, Executive Editor of the Oregonian in Portland

Presstime, Jan 3, 2006

"The newspaper business has been hearing rumors of its demise for generations. Seventy-five years ago, radio was the threat. Fifty years ago, it was television; 10 years ago, the Internet. Through it all, newspapers have not only survived but even today continue to demonstrate profit margins that are the envy of many other industries. "

Florida Sun-Sentinel.com, Jan 9, 2006.

"Newspapers used to have a monopoly on information, and it is taking them a long time to get used to the idea that they have lost it. A century ago, in every American city, various Heralds, Timeses, Tribunes and Gazettes may have competed with each other, but as a mass medium, the newspaper enjoyed total primacy.

"'It went out once a day and it was of absolute necessity to absolutely everyone,' says Stephen T. Gray, former managing publisher of The Christian Science Monitor, who now runs a research project called Newspaper Next at the American Press Institute in Reston, Va. 'Today we've got an infinite pipe for information, but we're still putting out a medium that goes out once a day and meets the needs of 100 years ago.'"

Check these sites for coverage on the Newspaper Next report, released on Septemeber, 27th 2007.As these are direct links to external Web sites to avoid copyright infringement, please click here to report broken links.

AsiaMedia
BizNews
Boston Herald
BusinessWeek/AP
ClickZ
EarthLink/AP
Editor & Publisher
Editors Weblog
Fortune
Houston Chronicle/AP
Investor's Business Daily
Journalism.org
KSL Newsradio/AP
Media Planner Buyer
Media Buyer Planner (New)
MSN Money
Newspaper Guild/E&P
Poynter-Romensko/USA Today
South Carolina Press Association
USATODAY
WGMS 104.1
Yahoo Finance/AP