The Media Drop

As I was lining up items to potentially blog about this morning, I noticed this WSJ article by Dennis Berman and Sarah Ellison about who was looking into getting a piece of Tribune Co., who is looking for interested bidders at the moment. Then, my colleague Chris Thilk pinged me with a couple of items […]

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Well, it looks like it wasn’t such a great day in Cincinnati, based on the first five headlines I’m seeing in my RSS reader for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Ugh.

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On Friday, some key news came out about how Tribune Co. is going to handle its own business, but what’s most important here isn’t that the company is trying to be more productive, but the fact that the company is now up for sale, if you really read between the giant lines that have now […]

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The Baltimore Sun has named Rondra Matthews, who currently publishes the Daily Press from Newport News, Virginia, publisher, reports that paper’s Andrea Walker.

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The Seattle P-I’s Dan Richman writes Friday about the announcement that the Post-Intelligencer, owned by the Hearst Corporation, and the Seattle Times would go ahead with binding arbitration in the joint operating agreement (JOA) battle. There is the definite possibility that a “win” for the Times would mean the end for the P-I, at least […]

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The AP’s Seth Sutel writes Monday about statistics hitting the streets today that are showing pretty big numbers (that are not surprising, IMHO) as far as Web visitation of newspaper sites goes. And if the whole “it’s all about me” thing hadn’t hit you over the head yet, then the following quote should swing it.
[Executive […]

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With news coming out that McClatchy has accepted bids for the 12 newspapers that it didn’t want to keep in the recent deal to purchase Knight Ridder, people should definitely heed what the WaPo’s Robert Kaiser has to say on the subject, writes CyberJournalist’s Jonathan Dube. I couldn’t agree more.

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Late last night, the WSJ’s Joseph Hallinan and Dennis Berman shared details of the expected purchase of Knight Ridder to McClatchy for about $4.5 billion. This morning, the AP’s Seth Sutel confirms the deal, according to company sources on both sides.
Outside of Tony Ridder, who heads up K-R, Sutel reports that McClatchy boss Gary […]

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From my pal Notorious MiG comes news of a fun headline from this particular story from today’s Lenta.ru.
He informs me that the headline translates to “Russia makes Gretzky cry” - NICE!
Additionally, MiG points out that “lenta” means “tape.” More specifically, the tape used to print out the news. So, it’s “The Tape.”

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This morning, Chris Thilk alerted me to this article over at MediaPost where John Wolfe wrote about a move by the Dallas Morning News to add a new magazine - on a DVD - into its Sunday editions later on this Spring. It looks like some mix of advertising and content - we’ll call it […]

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