Stocks of two of America's largest publishers, the New York Times and Gannett Co Inc., managed to record substantial gains in New York trading post a Wells Fargo & Co. analyst shared that advertising sales were on the road to definite improvement, and subsequently increased ratings of both the publishers' shares.

"Our epitaph" - that was the seemingly-apt headline on Saturday's 48-page commemorative 'final edition' of Arizona's 138-year-old daily newspaper, the Tucson Citizen!