The Media Drop

The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ Joy Howard writes about how the Gambit Weekly, the alt-pub in New Orleans, is expected to hit print yet again on November 1. Howard details the preparations that the paper’s staffers took pre-Hurricane Katrina that has allowed them to set a fairly firm timeline of being back on track, and […]

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If anyone was wondering what would happen to the “rest of us” who aren’t paying for the behind the wall op-eds and such at the NYT, this is probably a good example. People will end up not linking to the original works, but linking to the people who have digested and commented on those works, […]

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Back in May, when the New York Times announced that its columnists would be going behind a paid wall through a product called TimesSelect, it wasn’t highly thought of. Shortly afterward, the Times‘ Martin Nisenholtz discussed the decision and what was involved. Still, most didn’t take very well to it.
This morning, at least one user […]

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The Associated Press is reporting Tuesday that Richard Wayne O’Bryant, the managing editor of the University of North Florida’s student newspaper, the Spinnaker, was found dead on Monday. His death is believed to be a suicide.

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Earlier today, the Detroit Free Press announced that Caesar Andrews, formerly a Gannett News Service editor, will be taking on the executive editor role at that publication.

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While we were here in the States hoping that our newspapers would stay away from the insensitive or downright stupid headlines regarding Hurricane Katrina, it turns out that the cake-taker is a bit of a ways across the Atlantic. The U.K.’s Times ran an article on August 31 entitled “Mississippi drowning.” If you don’t get […]

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The Olympian’s executive editor, Vickie Kilgore, explains to readers of the newspaper that even with the acquisition of that publication by Knight Ridder, readers will still be seeing the same old Olympian every morning on their doorstep - or online.

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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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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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