The Media Drop

With recent revelations like the New York Times installing their TimesSelect service later on this year, the NY Post implementing registration on their site, and others requiring some sort of demographic information, it’s pretty clear that the media economy has grown to a point where advertisers and publishers alike are trying to get a handle […]

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On Tuesday, Reuters announced that Tim Faircliff, previously the general manager of the Telegraph.co.uk website, had come on board as General Manager of its UK news and business information consumer products - just a few days after the news organization named MSNBC.com editor-in-chief David Wright to a role in the same organization.
Faircliff will be […]

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In the Washington Times, Jennifer Harper writes about a recent study [PDF] by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) that showed a decrease of one-third for the number of anonymous sources used in a large sample of media stories covering the first year of President Reagan’s administration as compared to the first year […]

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While the U.S. hasn’t exactly been a hotbed of growth for newspaper circulation, it’s not the bellwether for the rest of the world as a whole. Reuters’ Jeffrey Goldfarb informs that global circ had actually gone up 2.1% for the full year 2004, even with the U.S. seeing a 1% decrease and the EU dropping […]

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Backstage.com reports that The New York Times Company has given $70,000 in grants to 27 NYC-based nonprofit theatre companies.

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A little more than a year ago, the cranking out of specialized magazines was lava-hot with new publications popping up all over the place. If some stats thrown out there by BusinessWeek’s Pallavi Gogoi are any indication, that still seems to be the case today. Though that doesn’t mean that the magazines are staying on […]

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Lisa Stiffler writes about former Seattle-area journalist Don McGaffin, who died on Sunday at age 78. McGaffin was well known to locals for his investigative reporting and specific style, as exhibited in a tough interview he had with President Richard Nixon in 1972.

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The AP’s Julhas Alam reports that Golam Mahfuz, editor of the Bangladeshi Comilla Muktakantha newspaper, was killed on Monday by “unidentified assailants.”

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The Arizona Republic’s Bill Goodykoontz calls CNN “unmatched when it comes to covering breaking news on television,” and gives a few words of advice to how they should plan the next 25 years of newsgathering and reporting. Goodykoontz also talks about how our lives, at least those touched with cable or satellite television, have changed […]

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The adoption of tabloid format is one that would make most newspaper editors cringe - and not just because of the change in column inches, either. As World Association of Newspapers adviser Jim Chisholm says, the Wall Street Journal’s recent transition of its International edition to tabloid is the best example that believers in the […]

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