Ravi Somaiya

According to figures provided by media analytics company Newswhip, The Washington Post published 10,580 individual things in May of this year, including wire stories, graphics, and other miscellania. CNN published 9,430, The New York Times 5,984, The Wall Street Journal 4,898, and NPR 2,254. Similar numbers are not available for the pre-smartphone era, but the print edition of the Post on June 26 —a decent analogue for the numbers in the print-driven era—included 135 stories, less than half the daily web total.

[Commentary] The hope of the Arab Spring has been realized: Now that anyone can publish anything from anywhere, it is impossible for even the most determined despot to jail every journalist and critic. But even as the most ruthless dictators are realizing the world has changed, they are quickly learning a new method for dismissing dissent and turning the guerrilla media techniques back on the guerrillas. Their instructor: Donald J. Trump, president of the United States.

John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s Magazine, is uncompromising in his support for print journalism.

Harper’s, which is nonprofit and funded by a foundation, has been available online for a decade. But to read anything, you must subscribe to the physical magazine too.

It remains to be seen whether history will judge him as a resolute visionary or a stubborn martyr.

The Wall Street Journal has cut between 20 and 40 staff members in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, as part of a re-evaluation of its newsroom that came at the end of its financial year.

Some of those laid off were informed at the end of June, which also marked the final days of the newspaper’s fiscal year. The layoffs have not been announced to the newsroom staff, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Dow Jones, the Journal’s parent company, declined to answer specific questions on the layoffs, or confirm the details, but provided a statement saying it had been evaluating the newsroom “to target areas for growth and deploy our resources globally.” As a result, Dow Jones said, “we will be eliminating certain positions.”

Those laid off include veteran reporters and editors at the newspaper.