The Media Drop

Rhetorica’s Andrew Cline has trouble with taking USA Today seriously - though he’s not trying to feel that way. It’s as simple as starting your journalism career (or just starting to seriously read a paper) during a time frame when, as he describes it, “Great newspapers at that time looked gray and dull, which […]

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The Chicago Sun-Times Robert Feder writes today about Premiere Radio Networks’ announcement that Donald Trump will be taking part in a daily dose of morning radio, entitled “Trumped!” ™, making its way across Clear Channel stations nationwide June 15th. Mr. Trump will share some views and commentary on various topics, including a reason why […]

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Primedia announced its earnings today, reporting that revenues were even with Q1/2003 at $328.5 million, but the push over the top from the sale of New York Magazine for $38.1 million helped the publisher reach net income of $5.9 million.
However, while advertising revenues increased just over $2 million for the same time period year-over-year, monies […]

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The Western Publications Association held its annual Maggie Awards event last week, with CNET and its News.com division taking home a combined four awards, including Best Online Publication and Best Online Article, Interview, or News Story. You can read all about this year’s winners here.
News.com took the Best Online Article category with its “Mother […]

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Hollywoodreporter.com announces that the U.S. House Commerce Committee has decided that EchoStar must offer both local and subscription channels on one dish, not two, as they currently are. The satellite provider has one year to set up reception of both feeds on one dish.

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According to this article from Reuters - the possibility of publisher Time, Inc. bringing back Life magazine is looking good - but it would return as a newspaper supplement rather than through magazine rack distribution. ETA for the publication would be fall of 2004.

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Robert Cox informs us that editor and writer Michael Kinsley is joining the LA Times as editorial and opinion editor.
I think I just broke some rule about using the term “editor” in a sentence, but that’s okay.
Also, L.A. Observed’s Kevin Roderick posts a bit on the subject with a theory about Kinsley’s “departure” from Slate […]

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Kevin Drum at Political Animal is venting about the proliferation of logins at newspaper sites. We have heard that this is going to be the way things work, and I still hope we can come up with a centralized registration process, at least within news site networks.
So what are the next steps out there, […]

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Edward Levenson of the Bucks County Courier Times writes about an event that took place in New Hope, Pennsylvania where media critics like Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! were present to talk about the coverage of the war by the news media.
It reads like a true love fest [/sarcasm], but there were some salient points […]

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Well, I just donated $10 through Dorkafork to Spirit of America for a new logo for the site, so look forward to that showing up in the next week or so. Join in the fun, help a good cause, and if you are lucky, you’ll find something that the great folks out there are […]

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