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From SNPA: The Economist asserts “the business of selling words to readers and selling readers to advertisers, which has sustained (newspapers’) role in society, is falling apart.” Newspapers that haven’t already migrated to the Web will either do so or disappear, the magazine predicts. It notes print circulation has been plunging in America, Western Europe, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand for decades, although newspaper sales have curiously been rising in other parts of the world.

Here’s what Oliver Luft, editor of Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, has to say in response.

From E&P: Advo Inc. shares dropped 22 percent Thursday after marketing company Valassis Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit to terminate its $1.3 billion merger agreement with the nation’s largest direct-mail marketer. Advo, for its part, says Valassis is simply jockeying for a lower purchase price.

Philadelphia native Joe Culpepper, 47, a 33-year veteran newspaperman, is the new editor of the weekly Navarre (Fla.) Press. He joined the paper in June.