The Media Drop

Ever wonder what it’s like to move a printing press in and out of a newspaper’s buildings? Well, the Hagerstown, Maryland-based Herald-Mail recently did just that, and the paper’s Erin Cunningham shared a few details of what went into getting that done earlier this week.

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The Morning News brings word of the purchase of two newspapers previously held by Community Publishers Inc. by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. This ends a relationship between the two publishers, who had been working together through what the Morning News’s Ron Wood describes as a joint venture to run a few local publications.

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One of the major comments heard by critics of the blogosphere in late 2004 was that without a presidential election coming up within about a year or so, that political blogs would lose their luster in a national sense. While it’s probably clear to everyone that the every single American reader isn’t drooling over politics […]

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Man, if this isn’t a huge plug for a company like FeedBurner, then nothing is. In my eyes, I would have to say that a message like this shows that many people who use technologies like RSS - even those that know what they’re doing - have become frustrated with the various flowcharts needed to […]

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The Princeton Packet’s Rachel Silverman details a summer journalism program at Princeton University that teaches high school-aged students about the ins and outs of journalism - but in this case, the participants are “from underprivileged backgrounds.” This is what one of the professors, Richard Just, calls “a very small step” towards increasing diversity in the […]

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Earlier this week, Mediaweek’s John Consoli covered the announcement about College Sports Television (CSTV) placing a four-hour program on the new face of PAX television, to be called “i.” This expands the reach of CSTV from viewers who might only see its shows by subscribing through a cable or satellite provider to a much wider […]

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The Associated Press is reporting that the September issue of National Geographic will carry no photograph on the cover.

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As far as censorship goes, distributed tools are always more successful than centralized, but they’re not always as easy to get set up and working properly. Unfortunately, the very popular blogrolling.com has been bit by the powers that be in Iran, informs Search Engine Journal’s Loren Baker, and is now set to become inaccessible by […]

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E&P’s Jennifer Saba reports that the dollars spent on newspaper ads along with dollars spent by readers on newsprint are still increasing, but are doing so at a lesser amount than in years past.

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Over at OpinionEditorials.com, Robin Mullins Boyd posts a harsh criticism of the media, focusing on the lack of positive news coming out of Iraq on a regular basis. Boyd claims many positive tidbits of information are freely available, and that if she can find it, then “big media” should be able to do the same.

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