The Journal's Web site handles breaking news, while the the newly redesigned print edition unveiled last week is devoted to context and analysis, says Los Angeles Times media reporter Tim Rutten. According to Rutten, the Journal's makeover represents a "good first look at what a rational division of labor will look like as newspapers move toward a future in which they simultaneously connect with their readers online and in print."

According to a Citigroup analyst, the price for 30-lb newsprint in the U.S. is now $660 per tonne, which is down $15 per tonne since September. However, the same analyst believes the rate of decline of U.S. newsprint consumption "has stabilized," which may lead to "stable-to-rising prices" in the coming months.

Beginning with the March issue, Knute "Skip" Berger will write a monthly column and serve as editor-at-large for Seattle magazine, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Berger left the Seattle Weekly this past summer after serving for 15 years as an editor at the company.

The indy publishing non-profit has closed its doors after 10 years of defending the interests and increasing the solvency of small and independent magazines, reports Jeremy Adam Smith in Other magazine. Smith eulogizes IPA with pride and sadness -- "it grew rapidly from a scrappy little nonprofit into a multimillion-dollar social venture" -- mixed with bitterness toward the group's last executive director, Richard Landry. The news does not come as a complete shock, however. Last June, the SF Weekly published an investigative expose of the problems plaguing IPA's newsstand service, as well as what Smith calls "the destruction of the community that once defined the organization."

Gawker Media's music blog will release the results of its first annual critics poll on Friday, hoping to supplant The Village Voice's 32-year-old Pazz & Jop poll, reports the Los Angeles Times. Longtime Voice music critic Robert Christgau (pictured), who was fired after New Times merged with Village Voice Media, will participate in both polls. "The decision to vote in the [Voice] poll was something I thought about the first week I was fired," says Christgau. "And I said, 'Gee, yeah, I think I want to do that.'"