The number of U.S. newspaper journalists declined last year by almost five percent to 52,600, the lowest in almost 25 years and the biggest drop in 30 years, according to the figures released by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

The figures reflected the attrition happening in the U.S. media industry, and also aroused a debate over the number of "minority" journalists employed by U.S. papers.

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Last month, WSJ.com reported 15 million unique visitors, a 175 percent increase over March 2007, announced Alan Murray, executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Online, citing the latest figures from Nielsen.

Page views came in at nearly 165 million, up 75 percent year-over-year, Portfolio.com reported.

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News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch will temporarily join the board of directors of U.S. news agency the Associated Press, ABC News reported Tuesday.

Murdoch will be replacing Jay Smith, president of Cox Newspapers, who retired after five years on the board. Murdoch will sit on the 18-member board until the next election of directors.

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The City Paper, a free daily in Nashville, will switch from a daily model to a twice weekly model at the end of April, Newspaper Innovation reported Tuesday.

The last daily issue will be printed April 25.

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Le Monde journalists went on strike Monday for the second time the newspaper's history to protest 130 staff cuts in newsroom positions, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Like other newspapers worldwide, the influential French newspaper has been struggling with rising costs and declining advertising revenues, as well as online competition.

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The New York Times could be losing some of its most senior staffers and top names if those taking buyouts and those leaning toward buyouts are accepted, Radar magazine reported Tuesday.

Those already announced to be taking buyouts include three Pulitzer Prize winners: Linda Greenhouse, the paper's Supreme Court correspondent, John Noble Wilford and David Cay Johnston.

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