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The U.S. has lost a quarter of its newspapers since 2005 and is losing two a week (almost all weekly papers) on average, according to a new report from Northwestern University's Medill School. In all, 2,500 American papers have disappeared since 2005. Penny Abernathy, the author of the report an…

When the CEO of Scholastic died suddenly last year, he left control of the family empire to a former colleague—his ex-girlfriend. Now there may be a showdown brewing over billions of dollars in kids’ fare.

This month, we’re introducing the first in a series of writer residencies designed to give established writers a place to share knowledge and inspire the Substack community.

The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

Why the hottest literary trend of the last decade is so blindingly white

The page view is a zombie. For years, everyone has been saying it's dead. But someone still needs to shoot this zombie in the head.

It’s easy to publish a file. It’s hard to do it well.

With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.