Not Comics: A Survey of Trend Pieces

For some reason this morning seemed to offer up a lot of articles that touch on things that might have an effect on comics, but aren't really comics articles.

* I thought this was a good snapshot article on how brutal and cutting the changes in the newspaper market feel right now to those on the front lines. The overall health of the newspaper business, as well as how syndicated product plays into the plans of those papers as they reach the other side of this tumultuous period, are of significant concern to the comic strip market.

* I always wondered why I never heard about technology that would help people track how their content is used without their permission on the Internet, and now I find out it's because they're just now implementing things that.

* the Chicago Defender -- the last remaining black-oriented daily, the longtime home of Chester Commodore, and a paper that switched to an all-black comics line-up in 2006 -- may stop daily publication for weekly or twice-weekly.

* a citizen's group that supports keeping Seattle a two-newspaper town -- which means the city would remain a city with more than four pages of comic strip placements -- wants a look at a new Joint Operating Agreement just to make sure there aren't secret plans included to close one of the papers.

* Borders hemorrhaging money can't be good for any print-focused industry, can it?

* The freelance copy editing field has its first potential star; I assume someone will fulfill this role in comics in the next couple of years, if there isn't someone out there already doing this.
 
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