The Media Drop

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Seattle Times was correct in its assertions that would be able to use costs it was hit with while newspapers staffers were on strike as part of a way to prove its way out of the joint operating agreement it has with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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The folks over at Radar Online are wondering whether or not Arnold Schwarzenegger’s involvement with American Media may have clouded his policy decisions.

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Here’s something I hadn’t seen before. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel runs a weekly chat session called “Ask the Editors,” running a transcript a little later on for all to read. This week, the paper had a chat with the paper’s photo editor, Sherman Williams. Looks like a good feature to keep an eye on, much […]

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Daily Pundit’s Bill Quick suggested Tuesday that today’s media is only worried about the attack on sourcekeeping because it believes it is above the law, somewhat. While he’s right that the media as a whole has had some serious ethical issues of late, I don’t see how the media as a whole would begin to […]

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Clearly, the headline of the day is BusinessWeek Online’s “What Makes Suicide Bombers Tick” in an article by Stan Crock.

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Think the agate-filled newspaper page is on the way out? You’re probably getting more and more right every day. The Boston Globe announced Wednesday that it was cutting the specific columns within stock listings, removed particular tables like those for T-Bills and New York bonds, and decreased how many stocks would be shown on a […]

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The Associated Press details the success that America Online had in webcasting the Live 8 concerts last weekend, and how the world of online video broadcasts have become more and more successful over the last few years.

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In mid-June, the Baltimore Sun opened a new section in their “Nation/World > Iraq” area, entitled “Maryland’s Fallen,” to share information about service men and women from the state of Maryland who died during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The credits for the subsite reference The Sun, Tribune’s other publications, and the Associated Press.

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FishbowlDC’s Garrett Graff points out that the NYT’s Judith Miller will be sent to jail for not revealing her source in the Plame case, while TIME’s Matthew Cooper has been “freed from his confidentiality promise.”
The cablers are covering a press conference about Miller’s choice, one that is called a “brave and principled choice” by the […]

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The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel carries a story about the closing of the Hagerstown Herald newspaper after a broken sale.

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