Over a 1,000 newspaper publishers, editors and others experts from all over North America got together here to discuss the threat posed to the newspaper industry due to competition, a reduced reader attention span and the recent Internet explosion that has led to declining readership and falling revenues. During the conference, newspaper publishers focused on ways to woo readers back to newspapers as well as finding ways to make money from unprofitable Web sites. Andrew Barnes, NAA's outgoing chairman and chairman of St. Petersburg Times in Florida, said US newspapers have to face the fact that they are their own worst enemy.
Many American newspapers are boring.
Their stories make you think somehow that you got a paper from the previous week. Canadian newspaper publishers don't mind very much that they get into some fights.