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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway liquidated its positions in a number of high-profile companies during the fourth quarter, but the Oracle of Omaha has hung on to his huge stake in Coca-Cola. And Coke's nearly 4% drop is a weight on Buffett's portfolio.

Employees at Gannett's flagship newspaper must be insanely dedicated: Why else would its publisher feel the need to explain to them exactly what it means to be forced to take a week off. But that's just what Dave Hunke decided his already-depressed workforce needed to hear.

Correctly or naively, print publishers all seem to think the iPad, Apple's new touchscreen tablet computer, is going to save their hides -- and Wall Street seems to agree, at least cautiously, as several print media companies saw their stocks rise today.

The long, steep decline in newspaper ad sales and circulation is starting to level off, but that doesn't solve the debt problems bedeviling firms like Affiliated Media. The holding company for industry heavyweight MediaNews Group will go through a prepackaged bankruptcy to eliminate most of its debt.

It was a good six months to be The Wall Street Journal. It was a bad six months to be just about anyone else. On Monday, the Audit Bureau of Circulations released its official figures for the half-year ending Sept. 30, and the picture they paint is no less grim for being thoroughly foreseeable....

The New York Times Company (NYT), which had planned to sell The Boston Globe, now says it will keep it. The Times had taken bids for the paper, including one from Platinum Equity, a group led by a former Globe executive and a member of the Globe's founding family, which has recently bought other...

USA Today, founded in 1982 by Gannett (GCI) CEO Al Neuharth as a radical experiment to create a national newspaper, may no longer be the largest paper in the U.S. based on circulation. Industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher obtained information from Gannett management that says that "USA...

The parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and the related Philly.com website could emerge from bankruptcy debt-free, if a proposal submitted by the ownership group that bought the paper in 2006 is accepted by lenders in court. Bruce Toll, of homebuilder Toll...

Shares of Gannett Co. (GCI), the world's largest newspaper publisher, rose more than 16 percent in pre-market trading after the company reported better-than-expected second quarter results. Net income at the McLean, Virginia-based parent of USA Today was $70.5 million, or 30 cents a share,...

The troubles of the newspaper industry are well-chronicled. Many chains are bankrupt or close to it. Some city papers have closed completely. Newspaper publishers hope that as the economy recovers, so will their advertising, which has been falling at a rate of 20 percent or more year-over-year....