It's a familiar story: Print circulation numbers are down, and audiences are dwindling.

It could be applied to any segment of the newspaper or magazine industry. But for the African-American press, comprising established weekly papers, it especially rings true.

The 2007 State of the News Media report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that while Hispanic media have been growing, circulation numbers at some of the oldest African-American weeklies in the country have been dropping. New York's Amsterdam News ...