The NewsHour: Old Media/New Media

It’s been an eventful week for the printed word. Yesterday, Google and book publishers came to a $125 million legal settlement that will make it easier for the internet giant to make full versions of books available online. The week has been no less uneventful for publishing’s sister medium: newspapers. Also on Tuesday, after a century of publishing a weekday paper, The Christian Science Monitor announced that it will cease daily publication, produce a weekly print version, and migrate most content to its website. Tuesday also brought bad tidings for both The Los Angeles Times and Gannett — the nation’s largest newspaper chain. Gannett announced that it will layoff 10% of its workforce, or nearly 3,000 employees; while The Times announced another round of layoffs for 75 journalists, cutting its newsroom staff to half of what it was in 2001.

Tonight on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Jeffrey Brown discusses this, other bad news for the newspaper industry, and the changing media landscape with John Yemma, the editor of The Christian Science Monitor; Mark Glaser, executive editor of the MediaShift blog on PBS.org; and Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired Magazine.

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