The Media Drop

Unlike with his personal problems, WFAN’s Sid Rosenberg seems to have public opinion slanting against him with regard to his actions after singer Kylie Minogue’s announced last week that she had breast cancer. Rosenberg made obnoxious comments, on-air, about results of treatment that Minogue would be receiving, leaving fans to wonder what his deal was. […]

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Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan says that as bad as the media scandals that have gone on in the last few years are, they should result in much, much better ethical behavior by staffers at publications everywhere.

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According to the Boston Globe’s Mark Jurkowitz, publisher Niche Media just can’t do anything right of late. After working their way out of one lawsuit, they’re getting hit with another by Boston magazine for grabbing a list of advertisers from that publication through employees that have since signed on with Niche.

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The Press-Enterprise’s Lisa McPheron informs that San Bernadino area radio station KVCR-FM, 91.1, will drop its mostly classical music format on the NPR station and shift towards “locally produced news and talk shows and syndicated public radio programming.”

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The AP’s Matt Volz writes Saturday about a letter to the editor that an Alaska state staffer, Joe Holbert, sent to the Juneau Empire. In the letter, Holbert portrayed himself as a journalist, never mentioning his current profession. Holbert defends himself by saying that he was expressing his “personal” feelings about a gas pipeline deal […]

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The Globe & Mail’s Richard Blackwell reports that Toronto Sun publisher and CEO Neil Fowler has left his position at the newspaper.

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It’s become apparent that “breaking up” the RSS feeds list for newspapers and other publications that was aggregated late in 2004 is the best thing to do. Furthermore, this post will contain newspapers and business journals alone, and following posts will cover college and university publications.
[May 21, 2005 - Added Tri-City Herald, The Herald (SC)]
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I’m not sure I could be more aghast at the fact that a Chinese journalist would be attacked in his own home, have two of his fingers chopped off, all most likely because of his work.

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The Los Angeles Times‘ Fred Alvarez reports that the Ventura County Star has removed the ability for readers to comment on individual stories on the newspaper’s website, due to “a surge of nasty, off-topic comments in recent weeks.”
This was something that Dean Landsman and Stephen Baker mentioned Thursday evening on a blog panel, with both […]

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Yeah, yeah, I know, I didn’t post on a weekday. Been busy with this and that, and haven’t had time to post in the last day or so. That day, however, has been a busy one - and, as a reward for my slackerness, you all get to read my exciting list of things I’d […]

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