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Los Angeles Times
The NBC News anchor has been on "30 Rock," Wait, Wait ... Dont Tell Me, and other comedy shows. "In airline pilot terms, I feel like I have enough stripes on my sleeve to be able to do more of it," Brian Williams tells Matea Gold. [...]
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Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:19pm EST
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St. Petersburg Times | The Hollywood Reporter e.Republic was chosen from among six bidders for the magazine. Several of the principals of the California media company are members of the Church of Scientology, and the St. Petersburg Times has been running stories critical of the church. "It's a business [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:15pm EST
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Times West Virginian
Times West Virginian publisher Andrew Kniceley (left) used his newspaper to apologize for yelling at a football coach because his son played only three plays in a game. "I regret any embarrassment or discomfort that I have caused FSU [Fairmont State University], my newspaper [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:15pm EST
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The Kojo Nnamdi Listen to Thursday's WAMU discussion of the state of alternative media. The guests: Mark Jurkowitz of the Project for Excellence in Journalism; former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff; Richard Karpel of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; and Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:46pm EST
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Nieman Journalism Lab | Poynter Online One of the tweaks that Zachary Seward has noticed: Steve Brill used to use the term "wall" to describe subscription content, but he's now abandoned that language. "We're not putting up any kind of a paywall," he's been saying. || Earlier Brill interview [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:25pm EST
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Westword
That's the approach William Breathes takes. He describes the decor ("like that hippie kid's hangout in high school -- complete with a boom box and thrift-store furniture"); the service ("employees didn't seem particularly interested in ... even helping me"); and what he ordered ("I'd settled on a [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:46pm EST
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NPR.org "I've even talked to writers who've told me that it's an obsession," says editor Joe Randazzo. "Nearly everything that they see, think or do gets instantly reframed into this kind of headline." Re the staff's political leanings: "I would not say that we are a group of Republicans, but I [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:11pm EST
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Washington City Paper Erik Wemple reports several WashingtonPost.com editorial staffers as well as some non-editorial workers are among those who've gotten the ax as the website merges with the main Post newsroom. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:15pm EST
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Tampa Bay Business Journal 83 Degrees, which launched this week, is getting money from the Tampa Downtown Partnership, Pinellas County Economic Development, and city leaders in Tampa, Largo and Clearwater. A critic of the venture has already launched a parody site. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:06pm EST
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Online Journalism Review That's too bad, says Robert Niles, because "Walt's management style empowered the company to cultivate fresh ideas," while news business management has smothered creativity. "As a newspaper online producer in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I'm quite familiar with the 'No, because...' speech, especially on projects [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:04pm EST
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago-Main Newsstand in Evanston has sold 140 copies of Granta 108: Chicago. The only other time the newsstand sold any issue that topped 100 copies was when Newsweek put out a special edition after Barack Obama won the presidential election. "It's unusual for a literary magazine [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:44am EST
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MarketWatch "That makes us different -- doesn't make one right and one wrong," says John King, after being asked how his show will contrast with the one Lou Dobbs hosted. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:37am EST
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Chicago Sun-Times Richard Daley says gripes in the media about the city of Chicago shutting down part of Michigan Avenue for Oprah Winfrey's season kickoff may have been too much for the talk show queen. "You keep kicking people, and people will leave. Simple as that." [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:07am EST
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Columbia Journalism Review
"I actually hadn't seen the Economist cover when we designed this, so I wasn't even aware that they had arrived at the same design solution," says Atlantic art director Jason Treat. Graphic design historian Steven Heller tells Greg Marx that the similarity may be embarrassing, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:39am EST
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MinOnline Steve Smith says the digital version of December's GQ isn't exactly the "App of the Year," "but Conde Nast's launch of the GQ 'Man of the Year' issue in an iPhone version brims with intriguing ideas about how to handle deeper magazine content on mobile platforms large and small." [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:34am EST
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Fayetteville Observer Observer executive editor Mike Arnholt told the Army on Thursday that not allowing coverage of Sarah Palin's book promotion at Fort Bragg would set an unacceptable precedent. He was backed up by lawyer Matthew Freedus, who wrote: "As a general rule, military bases are not public forums. But [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:50am EST
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Chicago Tribune
Administrators at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill. spiked today's edition of The Statesman because of stories on drinking and smoking by honor students, teen pregnancy, and shoplifting. The Student Press Law Center's director says: "It is irresponsible to withhold this information so they can protect their [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:18am EST
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Reuters Harbinger Capital Partners now owns 14.64% of the Times Co's publicly traded shares. In September, the hedge fund reported a 16.38% stake. > NYT's Chicago Report debuts today | Read it > Will NYT go easy on HBO because of documentary? [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:49am EST
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Madison attorney Jon Axelrod tells the Wall Street Journal in a letter that "it is totally inappropriate to demean [former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler Jr.] because of his race by comparing him to a butler, an occupation unfortunately stereotyped as predominantly African [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:26pm EST
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Associated Press
It does that by laying off 90 newsroom employees -- about 2% of the workforce. || Gawker's been getting information from AP tipsters. > AP reporters who found Palin book share $500 prize [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:41pm EST
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Chronicle of Higher Education Sanford Ungar, Neil Henry, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Garrick Utley and others share their thoughts with the Chronicle. || Nicholas Lemann, Michael Schudson/Len Downie, and Carlin Romano also have pieces in the Chronicle's special issue on the future of journalism. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:44pm EST
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Associated Press The Army says it fears Sarah Palin's book promotion on Monday will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama, and that keeping the media away will prevent that. || UPDATE: After news orgs file complain, the Army says the media will have limited access. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:21pm EST
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Newsweek Brian Williams says of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart": "How did we live without it?" [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:52pm EST
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NPR.org
Oddly, several news organizations refer to the president's chief of staff on a second reference as "Rahm Emanuel," writes Alicia Shepard. "NPR has just decided to make that a policy after correspondent Nina Totenberg referred to Emanuel three times by his first name only on-air. ...If it [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:25pm EST
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ProPublica "We sink a lot of wells, and it's sometimes a surprise when we hit a gusher," writes Stephen Engelberg. "It's why cash-strapped news organizations are backing away from [investigative reporting]. No one can say how a story will end. And no one can really predict what it will accomplish." [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:31pm EST
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Talking Biz News | NYTimes.com
Chris Roush reports BusinessWeek senior writer Stephen Baker, Technology & You columnist Steve Wildstrom, personal finance editor Lauren Young and engagement editor Shirley Brady are among those leaving. ( Stephanie Clifford: About 100 of BW's 400 employees cut.) Media columnist Jon Fine [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:23pm EST
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paidContent.org Staci Kramer figures the annual revenue from Kindle subscriptions is about $4.5 million, with the Wall Street Journal getting less than half that after Amazon.com takes its cut. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:13pm EST
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Manchester, Conn. Journal Inquirer The Journal Inquirer's story on the lawsuit says "the Courant is accused of using its competitor's work to make up for the work formerly done by the Courant's own reporting staff, which was cut in half in the last two years." The lawsuit calls the Courant's [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:40pm EST
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On Point Radio
Jeff Jarvis, Michael Wolff, and Steven Brill were guests on this morning's "On Point with Tom Ashbrook." (Brill once again refused to name any news organizations that have signed up with Journalism Online.) Listen to it. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:23pm EST
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Bay Windows The editors of New England's largest gay/lesbian newspaper say that when the gay community is "viewed as a marketing demographic rather than a movement, the result should not be surprising. The death of [Washington Blade parent] Window Media was self-inflicted." || City Paper: Washington Blade plans to [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:36am EST
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Wall Street Journal In an Oct. 13 e-mail to student reporters, a George Washington law school PR official wrote that "the Supreme Court's Public Information Office has asked to approve any quotes you use from the justice's speech." WRGW news director Jesse Regis tells Jess Bravin he had no choice [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:08am EST
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Editor & Publisher Their investigation into public employee pensions will run Nov. 29, reports Joe Strupp. Seven papers are involved. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:36am EST
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Maynard Institute The 20 demonstrators are angry that this "Mallard Fillmore" cartoon ran just a week after the one-year anniversary of the death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:58am EST
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Wall Street Journal The police department and Manhattan District Attorney's office are investigating whether the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union has again forged ties with organized crime. A grand jury indicted the union in 1992 on a corruption charge. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:23am EST
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TampaBay.com
The items for sale include the cover image, a local band profile and photo shoot, the chance to write a music review of your choice and a chance to add your questions to an interview that the alt-weekly's political editor will conduct with a politician. Eric Deggans asks: [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:57am EST
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Daily Press (Newport News) "Most Americans probably already know pretty much what's happened by the time they get home at night, with radio and the Internet and iPods," says retired TV newsman Roger Mudd. "So at 6:30 p.m., they don't want to sit in front of television for a half [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:41am EST
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SwampPolitics.com
Fox News host Gregg Jarrett told viewers that Sarah Palin is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book." He then showed old file footage of Palin rallies from the 2008 presidential campaign. Mark Silva hears this will result in "serious disciplinary action." [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:29am EST
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Fort Myers News-Press "I have the right to pick and choose who I want to speak to," Sheriff Mike Scott said as he walked away, "and don't you forget it." He refuses to grant face-to-face or phone interviews with the News-Press because of its coverage of various sheriff's office issues. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:07am EST
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Arizona Republic | cronkite.asu.edu
Brian Williams, who received the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism at Arizona State University, said if the late CBS anchor had come along today, he would have gotten less attention. "I think there's too much noise. There's too much to cut [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:55am EST
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TheWrap.com Sharon Waxman reports the Hollywood Reporter and other publications are close to being sold to James Finkelstein, whose family's News Communications Inc. owns the "Who's Who" series. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:26am EST
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TPM LiveWire
Publisher Jonathan Slevin also asks readers to "read certain newspaper and blog reports about this organization with a discerning eye. Many of our competitors enthusiastically repeat rumors, myths and misinformation." He doesn't correct or cite any errors in those reports. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:34pm EST
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Wall Street Journal | All Things D Conde Nast and Adobe Systems are building a digital version of Wired magazine for electronic reading devices, reports Russell Adams. The publisher will eventually release versions for all of its titles. || More from Peter Kafka. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:55pm EST
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STLtoday.com St. Louis Post-Dispatch social media editor Kurt Greenbaum says before calling a school to report that one of its computers was used to post a vulgar comment, "I should have walked the idea around the newsroom a little more." PLUS: More lessons learned from the incident, which resulted [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:22pm EST
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:03pm EST
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Editor & Publisher
Allvoices will pay up to $250 per story to journalists selected to participate in its "Provoices" program. If the story generates a lot of traffic, the writer could be eligible for more money. Former Boston Globe correspondent and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynda Gorov will [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:32pm EST
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Forbes.com "I don't think Poynter would try it," says Rick Edmonds, "but it might make sense for the [New York] Daily News." (Its owner, Mort Zuckerman, has pitched the idea.) || What Edmonds will tell the FTC next month: "I'll be talking about the bankruptcies newspapers face and explain [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:18pm EST
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Romenesko Letters "He'd actually advocate transparency in the federal judiciary that would increase the tiny number of reporters who subsist on the trickle of news allowed by the judges," writes John Maggs. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:01pm EST
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New York Daily News | WSJ.com The $2.99 app was released Wednesday. "We're excited to see GQ on devices that have been synonymous with envelope pushing and creative innovation, says GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson. || Earlier: It's "a breakthrough in the magazine giant's embrace of digital publishing." [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:58pm EST
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Daily Finance
Runner's World tells Jeff Bercovici that Brian Adams's contract contains a clause stipulating that his photos of Sarah Palin in gym shorts would be under embargo until August 2010. "That leaves the questions of whether anyone at Newsweek knew that Adams was not contractually free [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:32pm EST
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PeerNews.com Pierre Omidyar's online operation will produce original, in-depth reporting and analysis of local issues in Hawaii. He's aiming for an early 2010 launch. || Howard Weaver, who is advising Omidyar and partner Randy Ching, writes about the venture. > Hawaii is a test bed, in part; if [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:05pm EST
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Los Angeles Times
CNN
Candy Crowley ("before" photo at left) tells James Rainey that she didn't have surgery, as has been rumored in the blogosphere; instead, she's been dieting, swimming and working out. A change she thinks has made the biggest difference: Transcendental Meditation. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:48pm EST
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Philadelphia Inquirer The auction had been scheduled for today. Philadelphia Newspapers' attorney hopes the appeals court will issues its ruling before the end of December. It's to decide whether senior lenders can use money they're owed to bid for the media firm. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:50pm EST
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Columbia Journalism Review "A doomed strategy would be to wish that it were 1950 again and retreat into denial," says Rod Durst. "A winning strategy would be to embrace the change and figure out how to manage and monetize it by leveraging the existing brand." [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:13pm EST
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Toronto Star "It's not easy monitoring events from 10,000 kilometres away," writes Martin Regg Cohn, "but covering Iran from Toronto is still easier than it was in Tehran when New York Times reporter Nazila Fathi was holed up in her apartment, watched by security agents, her phone and Internet connections compromised." [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:02pm EST
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Wall Street Journal Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says the request came from a new employee who misunderstood his rule for classroom visits: no outside media, but campus reporters are welcome. "My family is all upset, and other people are calling me" about reports that Kennedy barred a student [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:45am EST
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Bible Belt Blogger
"It's kind of my fault," confesses Frank Lockwood. He was with Times managing editor Jill Abramson in Buenos Aires for a fellowship project when they watched a preacher exorcise a demon from a wild-eyed woman. "Since that day, I've never stepped foot in another [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:42am EST
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Daily Northwestern "To do so would violate federal privacy law," says professor David Protess, discussing prosecutors' subpoena of information about Medill investigative journalism students. "I will also refuse to comply with any demand to turn over unpublished information, because that would set a terrible precedent for other student journalists." [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:49am EST
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Content Bridges That's what former St. Paul Pioneer Press managing editor Ken Doctor says. His suggestion to the area's media: "Before you go to the mattresses, in a war of words and attrition, look to how you can collectively use the new tools of the trade ... to produce more [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:15am EST
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Neon Tommy "That's why they brought me in," says Drex Heikes. "I call [investigative reporting] 'journalism with a capital J' and that's why I'm here. ... We want good, hard-nosed investigative work." He says an open reporting position attracted 429 applicants, including Pulitzer Prize winners. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:03am EST
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Washington Post
Former Washington Times editorial page editor Richard Miniter (left) says he "was made to feel there was no choice" but to attend the ceremony if he wanted to keep his job. No one at the paper gave him an explanation when he stopped receiving pay and [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:36am EST
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Texas Tribune Harry Cabluck spent forty years AP. "He was in the presidential motorcade on that balmy day in November 1963 when John F. Kennedy was shot," writes Elise Hu, "has photographed every president since then, and caught countless backroom moments of George W. Bush's run for the White House." [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:04am EST
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Associated Press | Bloomberg AP spokesman Paul Colford wouldn't give numbers to an AP reporter, but the union representing AP employees said 38 Guild-covered journalists had been fired as of Tuesday night. The Guild didn't have a count for how many managers and workers outside the U.S. lost their jobs. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:49am EST
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New York Observer Jodi Kantor will write about the Obamas. "[Her] book will draw on the three years of reporting she has done since giving up the editorship of The Times Arts & Leisure section," writes Leon Neyfakh. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:35am EST
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Columbia Journalism Review
That's Megan Garber's verdict. "The Newsweek cover, cheeky and ironized though it may be, is less a knock on Sarah Palin than a nod to her -- a recognition of the fact that, say what else you will about her ... Palin has in some [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:46pm EST
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times Lisa Rab recalls when the papers were swimming in cash from the real estate boom, then gets into today's newsroom environment. "It seems post-apocalyptic to me half the time," says a Miami Herald staffer. "Overall, you just feel that the air has been let out of [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:12pm EST
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Gawker | New York Times
The Associated Press is quick to report layoffs at other news organizations, but you have to rely on non-AP sources when APers are pink-slipped. Gawker is compiling a list of casualties, and Richard Perez-Pena has a report. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:41pm EST
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Riverfront Times | Stltoday.com Kurt Greenbaum noticed that the person who posted a vulgar comment had a school's IP address, so he called there. "The headmaster confronted the employee, who resigned on the spot," he writes. "It could have been a student. ... I just thought the school might like [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:10pm EST
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NBCSanDiego.com
This headline got into Tuesday's Union-Tribune early edition: "Three lines of jumphed right in here, yuppers." || Earlier: Union-Tribune is the last major metro in the United States to put its pages together by hand. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:41pm EST
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New York Observer Andrew Rossi, who has a development deal with HBO, cautions that his project is in its infancy and could expand, or not be competed at all. He's started out by following Brian Stelter and David Carr, reports John Koblin. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:25pm EST
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Politico Sarah Palin complains that the cover image on the left is sexist, but Newsweek editor Jon Meacham says that "we chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:13pm EST
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Associated Press The raids at the New York Times, Post, Daily News and El Diario are part of a union corruption probe. || More from the Times' City Room blog. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:58pm EST
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TPM LiveWire Richard Miniter is filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the Washington Times, alleging discrimination based on age, disability, and religion. The editorial page editor says he was forced to attend a Unification Church mass wedding. || October 19: WT staffers ask: Where's Miniter? || [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:16pm EST
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Poynter Online
"[That's] because while the networks don't respond to us all that much, people attack us and criticize us and we don't want to give them ammunition than they need," "Daily Show" segment producer Patrick King tells Mallary Jean Tenore. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:32pm EST
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AdAge.com Simon Dumenco visited Rupert Murdoch's online papers to see what commenters are saying about the plan to charge for web content. "Brilliant idea, you will go the way of the New York Times, broke," writes one. Another: "This is such a bad idea; it will reduce your wealth and [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:13pm EST
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Seattlepi.com
The truth is, though, "the guys in charge of the P-I in its final years were actually decent, dedicated people," says David Horsey. He reviews "It's Not in the P-I: A Living Newspaper About a Dying Newspaper" and notes that most performances have been sold out and [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:45am EST
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Springfield News-Leader Keeping the media away was part of Sarah Palin's contract with the College of the Ozarks, says the Missouri school's PR director. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:14am EST
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Gawker Hamilton Nolan reported early this morning that Associated Press layoffs could be coming today. They are, according to multiple e-mails to Romenesko. One says: "AP managers fanning out nationwide, meeting with staff, announcing layoffs." [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:40am EST
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BusinessWeek
Josh Tyrangiel, 37, a deputy managing editor at Time and editor of its online operations, will become the first editor-in-chief of a Bloomberg-owned BusinessWeek. "I saw Josh in a number of leadership positions as he took on increasing responsibilities at Time," says Bloomberg chief content officer Norman Pearlstine. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:47am EST
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WSJ.com Carlos Slim says he's confident his $250 million loan to the New York Times will be repaid -- with 14% interest. He jokes that he'd invest in the Wall Street Journal, and only charge 12% interest. Rupert Murdoch says: "I have no regrets about [purchasing] the Wall Street Journal, [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:21am EST
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Romenesko Letters | Washington Post "There's one very important angle that gets overlooked when minority media outlets go out of existence: archives," writes Bill Dobbs. "I hope Window Media LLC's owners/shareholders will keep the Washington Blade, Southern Voice, South Florida Blade, etc. archives - online and otherwise -- available." || [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:59am EST
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Politico.com
Sarah Palin writes in her book that "formerly reputable outlets like the Atlantic ran with the loony conspiracy theory that I was not Trigs mother --perhaps it was Bristol or Willow, they suggested." She was referring to Andrew Sullivan's posts; he responds to Palin in an e-mail to [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:14am EST
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New York Times The Daily News has spent more than $150 million on new presses, believing it will attract advertisers. "I'm not going to tell you were going to get back to the advertising we had in 2000," says CEO Marc Z. Kramer, "but when an advertiser wants to do [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:47am EST
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New York Times | Beet.TV
Brian Stelter reports YouTube has signed up NPR, Politico, The Huffington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle for YouTube Direct, a tool to make it easy for YouTube users to submit clips that media companies can choose to highlight. The site plans to [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:46am EST
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"On the Media" The reason: TV health pieces consistently fail to adhere to basic standards. || More "OTM" transcripts and audio. > Downsized TV newsrooms eager to use hospital's reports [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:36pm EST
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Splice Today
Russ Smith agrees with most of Matthew Continetti's economic views, but doesn't get why the 28-year-old journalist (left) is cheering for the former Alaska governor. "Being tied to Sarah Palin isn't the wisest career path." || The Week: The media vs. Palin. > AP [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:35pm EST
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:16pm EST
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Editor & Publisher
"He tweets incessantly, but at no time does he commit news," says Garry Trudeau, who has just come out with a collection of Roland Hedley's tweets. "Actually, he isn't exactly a journalist, except to the extent that he covers himself." [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:28pm EST
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Standard-Times Conservative blogger and radio host Ken Pittman has been "lying" about Standard-Times columnist Jack Spillane "to undermine Jack's reputation and employment," says Standard-Times editor Bob Unger. "I know enough about libel law to believe that Pittman's writings could be actionable in the courts." || Pittman responds: "Bring [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:50pm EST
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New Haven Advocate Craig Fehrman raised the question last week as he previewed a future of journalism conference at Yale. Richard Gingras -- referencing MPR's future of news conference -- tweets: "The future of news is a future of conferences about the future of news." [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:49am EST
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Creativeloafing.com Employees at one of the papers arrived to work Monday to find a note saying, "It is with GREAT regret that we must inform you that effective immediately, the operations of Window Media, LLC and Unite Media, LLC have closed down." The chain's papers include the Washington Blade, Houston [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:29am EST
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Associated Press
CBS's "Where America Stands" series -- expected to run for months -- will look at issues such as health care, the military, the economy and crime. Reporters will show what was happening 10 years ago, compare it to now, and solicit predictions about how things [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:59am EST
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Poynter Online "To the media 'more accountability' always means 'restricted editing,'" says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. "That's not true. Openness is not the enemy of quality. ...There is no move to restrict editing on Wikipedia pages of living people." [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:45am EST
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Washington City Paper Marty Petty, who announced in August that she'd be leaving Poynter's St. Petersburg Times, will oversee Creative Loafing's six alt-weeklies. [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:20am EST
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All Things D Ken Auletta says he decided to kill the chapter on things he's learned from covering the media and Google because it was "not organic to the book's narrative, and because I feared it [would] muddy the books purpose, casting it as a How-To book." He's put the [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:03am EST
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Houston Chronicle
Moises Mendoza, a law-abiding newspaper reporter, often gets asked if he's the vicious killer, Moises Mendoza (left). "I think those who accuse me of murder haven't done their research, so I don't take their anger personally," writes the reporter. "But the confusion does get annoying." [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:10am EST
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Minneapolis Star Tribune Minnesota Public Radio is devoting more bodies and a greater share of its budget to news, reports Jennifer Bjorhus. President Bill Kling tells her: "We may find that audiences are expecting us to be a BBC-type of news operation in this region. You can't turn on a [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:47am EST
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Temple Talk
"At a minimum, it'll be amusing to watch," writes John Temple. "But I doubt his content will be missed -- unless he can create greater value and benefit for the user than he has today." || AdAge.com: Why Rupert Murdoch won't quit Google. [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:18am EST
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New York Times When asked how much they'd pay, Americans averaged just $3 a month, tied with Australia for the lowest figure -- and less than half the $7 average for Italians. [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:52am EST
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New York Times
Chief executive Thomas E. Ascheim says revenue per subscriber is up, but journalism prof and magazine analyst Samir Husni tells Richard Perez-Pena that "I still have my fears about whether [Newsweek's strategy] will save them in the long run." [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:47am EST
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Chicago Tribune | Romenesko Memos Tribune's asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware to give its management team until March 31 to craft a plan to exit Chapter 11 without interference from other parties. || Read the memo. [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:31am EST
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