The Media Drop

The Los Angeles Times‘ Sallie Hofmeister reports on the number of complaints from the public this week to the FCC regarding Adelphia Communications’ pending purchase by Time Warner and Comast.

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Last weekend, we finally got the DirecTV HD programming and dish set up so we could fully utilize the television we have at home, and while the number of channels available is kind of disappointing (and I don’t want to hear about cable this or that, I’m not changing), some of the programming is flat […]

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The McKinney Courier-Gazette, along with other Hartman Newspapers, L.P. publications, have been acquired by American Community Newspapers.

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Ohio’s Chillicothe Gazette has announced that current managing editor Michael Throne will now take on the general manager duties of the newspaper as well.

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When you’re having a conversation with someone who isn’t necessarily up on the local lingo as you are, it’s usually helpful to bring them up to speed and put things in context for him or her. Likewise, it’s helpful to actually define a certain term when it’s an integral part of your news article. Unfortunately, […]

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On Wednesday, MediaPost’s Gavin O’Malley covered BusinessWeek Online’s new Innovation & Design section, recently added to the publication’s website. It’s a place where interactivity will reign, and readers will not be left out in the cold. Just as MSNBC.com and the New York Times have made multimedia an important part of their online presences, BusinessWeek […]

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The Boston Globe’s Bill Griffith has details on the end - at least at ESPN Radio - of the career of Chuck Wilson, 20 year veteran of the “Game Night” program heard every evening on stations broadcasting the ESPN shows, just as ESPN Radio enters the Boston market. I came across Wilson while doing some […]

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In a move that might change the way that terrestrial radio has worked over the last few years, Sony’s Epic label owned up to what is effectively payola, where deejays and station employees were given trips, sneakers and electronics to play particular songs on the air. The New York Times‘ Jeff Leeds and Louise Story […]

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Durango Herald managing editor Alice Klement provides an anecdote about her time working in the newspaper business to promote journalism as a profession, expressing her hope that today’s newspapers can continue in the tradition of old-time journalism, irrelevant of whatever corporate ownership they may reside in.

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Late last week, New York Times reported that assistant managing editor Jonathan Landman would take on the role of deputy ME for digital journalism as of August 23. Landman is an 18-year veteran of the Times, with previous experience at New York’s Daily News and Newsday.

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