The Media Drop

I was saddened to hear last night about the death of “gonzo journalist” Hunter S. Thompson last night after returning home from a weekend out of town. Thompson, 67, apparently shot himself on Sunday at his home near Aspen, Colorado. Love him or hate him, you’ve probably read something he wrote - or […]

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E&P details the upcoming Opinion Forum in Washington, D.C. on March 8, an event that will feature various panel discussions, including one with op-ed columnists discussing their trade and how they relate to the public-at-large.

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WISN-TV out of Milwaukee has the story about the passing of Milwaukee journalist Mattiebelle Woods, 102, who died Thursday evening.

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At the beginning of the year, word came out that Orbit, the satellite service in the Middle East, Northern Africa and parts of Europe, had dropped CBS News programming from its schedule in favor of shows from the FOX News channel. At the time, users on Orbitforum.net were up in arms at the displacement […]

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The Vanderbilt Hustler has a story by Meredith Casey on Friday about a visit to the school by CNN political producer Sam Feist earlier this week. Feist was on hand to talk about media bias and how political media works. Casey reports that Feist “sees the media as a check or watchdog for […]

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On Thursday, San Francisco-based Business Wire quietly launched two new features in their online service, both related to RSS feeds. PressPass users now have the opportunity to receive the latest stories in “My PressPass” via an RSS feed, which is available after logging into the system and scrolling to the bottom of the page […]

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The New York Times Company announced in press release Thursday afternoon that it is set to purchase About.com from Primedia, Inc. for $410 million - in cash. This move creates a significant online footprint for the NYTCo, and expands the eyeball grab of the company, with an additional 22 million unique visitors per month […]

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The New York Times Company announced on Thursday that their website traffic for January was a record, with 553 million page views — 2 million more than the previous record, November of 2004, during the Presidential election. Specifically mentioned were 4.5 million pageviews originating from the Times‘ RSS feeds and a 23% hop in […]

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A Knoxville News-Sentinel staffer found himself in an odd position on Wednesday when a bomb squad detonated a newspaper coin box after it was reported as “suspicious” because of wires that were exposed. Robert Wilson reports that the newspaper coin box was located in a place where it was not “normally installed,” leading to […]

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Lalit Jha writes in Thursday’s Grand Forks Herald about a $250,000 donation made by former student and longtime journalist / editor Charles Johnson that, in Jha’s words, is “expected to assist in re-establishing accreditation” for the University of North Dakota’s journalism school.

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