And the newspaper companies try to get paid for that by selling advertising alongside the stories.
Newspaper companies are using less of the stuff, printing fewer words on smaller, thinner pages.
Three years ago most newspaper companies had launched successful Web sites and enjoyed operating margins approaching 30%.
In recent months, newspaper companies including Times Co. have posted results that show persistent weakness in print advertising.
They've been affected by a lot of the same things that have hit a lot of newspaper companies.
Laura Malone, acting general counsel for the AP, said the news cooperative welcomed the support from the newspaper companies.
It took off anyway, and soon faux-newspaper companies sprung up everywhere for the not-so-secret purpose of delivering paid Minitel services.
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Compare these with newspaper companies, under siege for their dim prospects, whose shares fetch 18 times earnings and soft-drink companies, at 20.
For example, Homescape, which hosts classified ads for a consortium of newspaper companies, has a find-a-Realtor button that sends information to Reply.
Most newspaper companies have not posted such large gains (see table, above).
Newspaper companies, such as rivals the Washington Post Company (WPO) and Gannett (GCI) have struggled as media increasingly moves from print to online.
Like all newspaper companies, the Tindle Group has been struck by a collapse in advertising revenues caused by the internet and the recession.
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Royall filed a defamation suit against Main, her publisher, a legal prof who wrote a blurb for the book, a reviewer and two newspaper companies.
Indeed, shares of newspaper companies rose on news of the bid.
The problem is that other newspaper companies, especially Trinity Mirror, have rushed into the vacuum created by the disappearance of NotW and its 2.6 million weekly copies.
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's pursuit of Dow Jones that speaks to the daunting challenges that most other newspaper companies face in shoring up rapidly eroding circulation and sliding advertising revenues.
And the newspaper companies' tribulations do not necessarily presage the demise of the news business, for they stem in part from the tumultuous and expensive transition from paper to electronic distribution.
"We think that the revenues from newspaper companies have been insufficient to cover their cost, " explained Mike Simonton, an analyst at Fitch Ratings, who issued a negative outlook on the industry.
The New York Times and the McClatchy Company, two of the biggest newspaper companies, beat expectations with their third quarter earnings but fueled concern over their capacity to shovel in ad dollars.
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's British newspaper publishing companies in the wake of scandals over the past year.
Mr Brighton, who founded one of the largest newspaper distribution companies in the UK, has been made an MBE for services to the news delivery trade.
Some newspaper and magazine companies, feeling let down by the Kindle electronic reader from Amazon.com Inc.
Noting that even one of the victims' lawyers had admitted that there was no definitive list, the newspaper contacted ten companies on one partial list and found that many were themselves unaware of the extent of their involvement in Nazi-era persecution.
Despite the parliament's vote tobacco companies and newspaper publishers in the EU say they will mount another legal challenge to the legislation.
The last 12 months have seen numerous newspaper articles detailing IT security breaches involving companies from all around the world.
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Each year the newspaper approaches the legal affairs departments of companies and major law firms, including foreign firms, with a request to vote for two lawyers in each of certain practice areas whose performances during the year have made particularly important contributions to producing successes.
In 2006 the auto companies shifted 25% of their newspaper ad budgets to online media.
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And those they selected were half as likely to appear in newspaper articles as the bosses of less successful companies.
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News Corp. is preparing this summer to split into two companies one containing its newspaper and publishing assets, and the other containing its TV and movie properties and the settlement resolves an issue that had been hanging over the company without it having to admit to wrongdoing.
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