The Media Drop

Hilarity apparently ensued at the Cone household when Ed Cone apparently showed up in the News & Record’s “Out” list. Hilarity ensued in my brain when I read this comment by Kirk Ross on Cone’s blog, when he suggests that “most Lifestyle sections should be renamed “Herd.’”
Happy Birthday wishes are due to C.K. Sample, who […]

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Thilk sends along this story from today’s Chicago Tribune about how Tribune will be distributing - sans in-city boxes and newsstands - the Chicago Sun-Times on behalf of that publisher. But the kicker just so happens to be in the middle of Phil Rosenthal’s column:
Sources also said the Tribune’s profit from the arrangement will exceed […]

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After yesterday’s news that Dow Jones had, in principle, agreed on the takeover bid from News Corp., we knew that the board of the company, plus the Bancroft family, would be next to go. The Journal’s Sarah Ellison, who’s the one to follow inside this whole thing, writes Wednesday that the company’s board has approved […]

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This just in: Dow Jones deal taken by News Corp.
Okay, not that we’re surprised, but Dow Jones has tentatively accepted the deal for its acquisition by News Corp., for $5 billion. The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah Ellison, who has been covering this story since its inception, shares the details on how the process will go […]

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Okay, so those are some not-so-good numbers in my RSS reader from the Chicago Tribune… 7 wonders, okay, 5 convicted, 4 dead, 2 killed, ugh.

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I haven’t discussed this for a long time, but more bad news came down a few days ago in the case of the Seattle Times and the other paper in that city, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and their ugly joint operating agreement situation, which has been in a battle for years now, and could end with […]

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Last week, news came out that Ivan Safronov, a Russian journalist with Kommersant, a daily paper, died after falling out of a window. Word was that his death appeared suspicious, especially given the materials he had been investigating for a story had reportedly caused someone to “threaten” him.

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Sometimes it kind of bugs me that I link to the free articles in the WSJ so much, but maybe it shows how valuable of a publication that newspaper is. In any case, here’s the latest. Sarah Ellison and Dennis Berman have the lowdown on what is up with Tribune Co., and they inform that […]

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Taking a page out of the slacker handbook this week is apparently The Australian’s Frank Devine, who finds that sources are much more easy to get quotes from when you just Google the topic you are looking for, make a few key changes to the exact quotations and information that someone else acquired, and print […]

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Wednesday heralded some bad news for editorial staffers at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press reports, as 71 employees were laid off, effective January 17.
As we see more and more of these layoffs showing up, I’m wondering if it will herald the start of new daily publications of some note in these marketplaces, as […]

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