Newspapering

More newspaper tide turning

The AJC announces a circulation cut. They’re stopping delivery to 27 counties — including Cherokee, Clay and Macon in NC — and are concentrating around [...]

December 11, 2008 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Newspapers on the block

This morning, it’s a Reuters story on the sale of the Miami Herald. Yesterday afternoon, it was the Rocky Mountain News. Yesterday morning, this E&P [...]

December 6, 2008 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Beat the press

Ran into Joe Killian the other day while attending the wonderful ConvergeSouth conference. Joe was knocked down while interviewing Obama supporters at the Palin rally [...]

October 19, 2008 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Media, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

MNI

Sold most of my MNI years ago in the mid to low 60s. Makes me look like a goddamn genius. The truth is that I [...]

September 16, 2008 | Posted in: Dispatches, Media, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

re: N&O op-eds

Memo from a longtime reader: First, let me just say that Bill Kristol is an idiot who makes stuff up. Second, could you add a [...]

July 8, 2008 | Posted in: Media, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Workforce cuts

Further update: N&O shedding 70 jobs, consolidating editions down to two: State and Final. Publishers’ message to staff. Wow. Update via the N&O: Serious cuts [...]

June 16, 2008 | Posted in: Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Landmark for sale

Nine newspapers and The Weather Channel. Around here that means the Greensboro News & Record is on the block. Via AP (Via The Virginia Pilot): [...]

January 3, 2008 | Posted in: Current Events, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Print column closing

Since starting the daily grind of putting out a weekly newspaper, I’ve been hemming and hawing about whether/when/how to end the weekly print column, which [...]

December 27, 2007 | Posted in: Columns, Newspapering | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink