Newspaper sales slid to 1984 level in 2011

In the poorest showing since 1984, advertising revenues at newspapers last year fell 7.3% to $23.9 billion, according to figures quietly published Wednesday by the Newspaper Association of America. Here are a few factoids to help put the industry's long-running slump in perspective::: The combined print and digital sales reported by the trade association for last year are less than half of the