Weak Economy Speeds Newspapers' Decline
NEW YORK — The newspaper industry's downward spiral is accelerating as the weak U.S. economy depresses already-tumbling advertising revenue and ...
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Chicago Sun-Times Journalist Resigns, Says Newspapers Are "Dying"
CBS 2 | Posted 08.28.2008 | Media
In a bombshell announcement in the world of sports journalism, star columnist Jay Mariotti has abruptly resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times. Only aft...
Hometown Papers Splurging On Convention Coverage
Wall Street Journal | Russell Adams & Shira Ovide | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
Like their counterparts across the country, the local newspapers in Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul have been cutting back as advertising sales dwindl...
Valleywag: 5 Ways Newspapers Botched The Web
Valleywag | Posted 08.24.2008 | Media
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Here's our theory: Daily deadlines did in the newspaper industry. The pressure of getting to press, the long-practiced art of doom-and-gloom headline ...
New York Daily News Looks To Cut 25 Jobs With Buyout Offers
New York Post | Holly Sanders | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
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The Daily News is cutting jobs in the latest round of downsizing at the embattled tabloid. The Mort Zuckerman-owned paper is looking for 25 volunteer...
Old Journalism's Demise Is Good for Communicators
Richard Laermer | Posted 08.18.2008 | Media
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Every day, smart folks uncover another online bigmouth to get our messages out there and wave buh-bye to what once ruled.
Kiss Them 'Dubai'? Oil-Rich Foreign Investors Could Buy Up U.S. Newspapers
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.18.2008 | Media
They have bought everything from the Chrysler Building to the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas. So why not some of the biggest newspapers in the U.S.?
TV remains top source of news even as online grows
AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 08.17.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news i...
Eddy Hartenstein, Former Head Of DirecTV, Becomes LA Times Publisher
AP | Posted 08.16.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Eddy Hartenstein, a former head of DirecTV, will become publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper reported Saturday. Hart...
Gannett To Cut 1,000 Newspaper Jobs Across The US
Reuters | Robert MacMillan | Posted 08.14.2008 | Media
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Gannett Co Inc plans to eliminate 1,000 positions from its local newspapers around the U.S. because of declining advertising...
Newspapers Cut Back On Convention Coverage
Forbes | Brian Wingfield and Joshua Zumbrun | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media
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Washington, D.C. - Forget April. For bean counters at financially troubled newspapers, August is the cruelest month. Their budget-stretching began wi...
Iran Executes Journalist Convicted Of Terrorism
AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 08.05.2008 | Home
CAIRO, Egypt — An Iranian journalist sentenced to death on terrorism charges has been executed in what a human rights group on Tuesday called a ...
Newspapers: Big Bargains -- Few Buyers
New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media
WANT to buy a newspaper company? No? You're in good company. The Chicago Sun-Times is the kind of trophy that once appealed to deep-pocketed buyers. ...
Only 10 Percent Of Editors Consider Foreign News "Very Essential" To Their Papers
New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media
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Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and de...
Selling Your Old Media Now: Internet Whiz Says To Get Out
DealBook | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
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Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, who now runs the social networking site Ning, kept up his death watch for old media Wednesday morning. In a morning...
Sam's LA Times and Sam's LA Bagels
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
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What's the difference between Sam Zell's Los Angeles Times and Sam's Bagels on Los Angeles' Larchmont Boulevard? None, if you take Mr. Zell's words to heart.
Con Games: Code Friedman
Michael Conniff | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media
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Something has happened to Thomas Friedman: he has started to believe his own bullsh*t. A fatal flaw has crept into Friedman's reporting that borders on journalistic megalomania.
Los Angeles Times To Cut 150 Staffers
Radar | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
The Los Angeles Times announced 150 editorial layoffs--on both print and Web, according to a memo just sent by Russ Stanton. The layoffs will be compl...
Newspapers' Worst Year Ever For Ad Revenue
New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
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For newspapers, the news has swiftly gone from bad to worse. This year is taking shape as their worst on record, with a double-digit drop in advertisi...
The Liberal Bias Newspaper Snipe Hunt
John McQuaid | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media
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The problems we face today don't fit well into the "liberal vs. conservative" culture-war frame. And the editor of a daily newspaper shouldn't have to investigate himself. For six months.
Midwest Editors Shifting On Gay Marriage
Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
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In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.
Did Obama's Triumph Over Hillary Drown Out News Of Tony Rezko's Conviction?
Huffington Post | Adam Rose | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
Hillary Clinton's willingness to concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama dominated the front page today in newspapers nationwide, but news t...
Wal-Mart Launches Web Classifieds to Compete with Craigslist
Slate | Chadwick Matlin | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
Wal-Mart doesn't know it yet, but it may be the savior that local newspapers have been praying for. The big-box retailer launched a new service withou...
Can Newspapers Be Saved?
John McQuaid | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
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Papers have to protect and nourish two things they already have -- reporting and the newspaper "brand." Original voices and journalistic credibility are pretty much all papers have left.
Carrie Bradshaw Is the Harbinger of Death
Daniel Holloway | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment
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I now look forward to Carrie Bradshaw's big screen debut about as much as I look forward to the day when I arrive in hell and am told David Spade is my roommate.
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