The Media Drop

Over the weekend, the AP reported that Rozel Lee, a Tampa Tribune reporter, had been fired after stating that she “intentionally” voted one way in a contest for the best local football player so that the favorite would lose. Will this change how reporters are able to vote in contests like this in the future? […]

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Well, big step for me tonight - subscribed to the online version of the Wall Street Journal. Been finding the content - beyond the free stuff - really helpful of late. So while linking to it isn’t going to be helpful for everyone, I’ll probably be doing it here and there when it’s necessary. You […]

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Jeff Jarvis has a blog post up about changes to the newspaper, and brings up the topic of coupons disappearing from the papers, and how that affected a pub he worked at a few years back. I’m not going to delve too much into the argument, but I will say, flat out, that I purchase […]

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As of Wednesday, January 18, readers of the Chicago Tribune will no longer see stock tables in the pages of the newspaper, Bloomberg News reports this afternoon.
As you would probably guess, the Internet has a lot to do with this. Expect this to be one of the first dominos of a few to do […]

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Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal ran a story by Brian Steinberg and Joe Hagan about the announcement that Richard Zannino, Dow Jones’ CFO, would take the reins as CEO as of February 1. But, as you’ll probably notice, what might be the most important part of the story is in the first sentence - […]

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The AP’s Dave Carpenter details the departure of the Chicago Sun-Times‘ Red Streak tabloid paper from the market a little over a week ago not as the demise of this style of publication, but a sign of the future. Both publishers and advertisers see the tabloid papers as a way to reach younger readers, and […]

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Roxanne Cooper informs about the news that the Gambit Weekly, the alt-pub from New Orleans, will be selling the “Best Of” issue that was set to hit the streets right about the time that Hurricane Karina devastated the city for $10 each, with the proceeds going to The Foundation for Entertainment Development and Education. While […]

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For some time now, the Seattle Times has allowed freelancer Bill Richards to cover its ongoing battle with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer regarding the joint operating agreement (JOA) that the papers are stuck in. This week, the Times has named its own Eric Pryne as the staffer who would continue the coverage of this story, the […]

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The Boston Globe’s Robert Gavin writes about the newspaper’s announcement that Mary Jacobus would be taking on the role of president and general manager at the daily, taking on the role being vacated by Richard Daniels, who is moving elsewhere within the Boston Globe Media organization.

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For awhile, I had seen the volume of “hit pieces” and negative press that so-called “new media” tools were getting in major publications as a totally bad thing, and that some of the writers didn’t get it. That might still be the case (the latter, that is), but now I’m beginning to feel like at […]

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