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Newspapering

Newspapers and the future of journalism

From this week’s paper, some thoughts on newspapers and journalism and stuff: At a little over 600 square feet in three rooms, the office isn’t [...]
March 23, 2009 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Axe falls at the Char-O

Sixty full-time, 22 part-time. A total of 30 newsroom positions — 19 full-time and 11 part-time — will be eliminated, Observer Editor Rick Thames said. [...]
March 23, 2009 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Print in the driveway

A very nice gentleman from the News and Observer Publishing Company resolved my subscription issue and had a double bagged (and knoted I might add) [...]
March 14, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Catch 22 and resubscribing to the N&O

I let my N&O subscription run out last year after Mrs. EJS and I decided to see if we could stand not having a printed [...]
March 10, 2009 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Axe falling at MNI

Well, what can you say. After several shoes dropped last year and stories of big layoffs ahead this quarter, we got word this morning of [...]
March 9, 2009 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hard numbers

This is why you need newspapers — The N&O cracks the code on the State Health Plan. Blue Cross’ revenue exposes a serious miscalculation of [...]
March 1, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Health Care, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Rocky no more

It came into being on a dark night two years before the Civil War’s first gunshots, survived a flood that washed away its press and [...]
February 27, 2009 | Posted in: Media, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

How about a bailout for papers?

Yeek. Reuters has a story musing over the prospect of government salvation for newspapers — as if the current economic crisis has anything to do [...]
January 1, 2009 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink