The Media Drop

As discussed in mid-January, the Seattle Times is set to cut about 100 positions this month. On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported additional details, pointing out that 23 of the 99 jobs currently slated for the cut belong to newsroom staff.

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Crain’s has the story about a joint venture by The Deal and CNET News.com to start a new publication, Tech Confidential.

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The St. Petersburg Times‘ Vladimir Kovalyev comments on the announcement that “independent” RTV International, a television news station currently available to Russians through satellite subscription service, will soon join the ranks of free television - through satellite - for citizens of the country. Kovalyev points out that their company line is “The Only News […]

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The Charlotte Observer’s Mark Washburn wrote in Wednesday’s paper about an unnamed producer at WBTV who was fired this week after it turned out that two out of the three lines in a story read on-air were “copied verbatim” from a newspaper story from the day before.

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IntelliTXT is rearing its head again, this time at a major newspaper - the New York Post. It’s unclear when the Vibrant Media technology arrived on their site, but none of these ads were coming up for me earlier this week in the minimal time that Internet Explorer was in use - just the […]

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Forbes carries The McKinsey Quarterly, which this time around focuses on newspaper format changes, specifically a flip from broadsheet to tabloid. They’ve weighed in on online media and other news sources have devoured a lot of the readership of our beloved dailies, and what can be done - quickly - to help the problems.

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Well, it’s offical. Jason Kottke has quit his job and is officially a full-time blogger. Check out his post for all the nitty-gritty. He’s doing a three-week fund drive at the moment, which will hopefully get him to some sort of critical mass so he can get his creative on for the […]

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Robert Feder reports in today’s Chicago Sun-Times that if you’re a program director, Chicago might be the place for you right now, as five (at least) radio stations in the area are looking for someone to fill that role.

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The Chicago Sun-Times‘ Eric Herman details the Tribune Company’s decision to slightly increase CEO Dennis FitzSimons’ salary year-over-year but cut his bonus by more than three-quarters, from $1.2 million to $260,000, citing cashflow and the refunds to advertisers for circulation scandals at some of the company’s newspaper properties.

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Hiphop-Elements.com points out the story about a feud of sorts in Los Angeles, where some personalities at Emmis Communications-owned Power 106, a rap and hip-hop station, have allegedly stated that any music artist who records a promo for Power 106 competitor KDAY 93.5FM “will be immediately removed from Power 106 rotation.” Hiphopdirectory.com has not […]

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