Both of Chicago's daily metro newspapers had steep declines in circulation in the six months ended Sept. 30, signaling continuing difficulties in an i...
Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
If there was a better day to announce the News Cooperative, I can't think of it. After Mayor Daley's budget address, the two major papers ran the same cover: a 24-year-old kidnapping.
Peter Scheer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
Traditional news media will continue to shed jobs, even in a general recovery, faster than digitally-based replacements for those businesses can be invented and built.
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
The Internet is doing to the news business the same thing it has done to dozens of other industries: disrupting it. As always, this disruption is painful, but it's not necessarily bad.
Cory Silverberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Nowhere is the disconnect between mainstream news production and the lives and experiences of those of us who consume it more apparent than in content about sexuality.
Phil Bronstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
I like the tussle of digital world commenting, as nasty and angry as it can get. There are also endless tips, suggestions, ideas and other useful things in comments sections that may be bad for the ego but good for journalism.
Phil Bronstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
The Times chose to invade our Western shore pretty much wearing panties and floaties instead of the full battle gear available to the national "paper of record."
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
In the Czech Republic, "news cafés" are springing up, where people can relax, meet, down some brew, see their local paper being produced, mingle with editors and contribute copy.
nytimes.com | RICHARD PEREZ-PENA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
Prospective buyers of The Boston Globe faced a Friday deadline for submitting firm bids, but it remained unclear what would happen next -- or even whe...
Rob Kall | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
If the US government invests directly in journalists, so that their writings and reports can be freely used by any media organization or site, that investment will yield big results.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
While many have quickly lamented URB's print hiatus or reminisced about our long legacy, there is also an unfortunate feeding frenzy on even the hint of print's presumed, imminent demise.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver
As I picked up several copies of the shrunken final edition of the Rocky Mountain News, I felt a sadness not only for that issue, but also for the physical transformation of the newspaper.
Scott Campbell | Posted 10.01.2009 | Technology
Being a journalist in these times excites me. It's reporting the news as it happens, talking to everyday people with fascinating stories and seeing the media industry evolve and migrate before my eyes.
Mike Doyle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago
Miner's less than well-meaning suggestion to dispense with commentary and turn Chicago's columnists into service-oriented seat-warmers for journalists was nothing short of cowardly.
Phil Bronstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
Just when profit seems to be staging an improbable comeback, along comes President Obama supporting tax breaks for newspapers that are structured as non-profits.
Steve Ross | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy
I used to eat at Michaels, front of the room, with the likes of Joan Didion and David Brooks. Now I'm packing peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and shudder every time the phone rings.
Phil Bronstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
When and how a news story begins, and what the steps are in between that moment and Jimmy Carter offering his final, funereal judgment, are interesting questions.
John Tomasic | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver
Dear Colorado GOP: Twitter doesn't care what you think about the people on the other end; it just wants more of them. It's not a list-serve. It's the Twitter. You're either on it or you're off it.
Posted 11.14.2009 | Media
Filmmaker Michael Moore -- who's been touring the world promoting his new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story" at several international film festivals -- ...
Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Alex Jones writes that the implosion of the business model for traditional media is creating a vacuum in the type of news gathering, analysis or revelatory investigation which is in the public interest.
Chris Maloney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
Tribune's vast multimedia holdings were supposed to act as a hedge against a downturn in any one area -- that was before the Internet and the "perfect storm" financial crisis.
Michael Conniff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
A bigger problem is Craig's List, available in most places for free, the online classified-killer now slurping on the cash cow that once accounted for 45 percent of the newspaper revenue stream.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media
Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to monetize their content. Now they're desperately trying to monetize their journalists.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
You go to an airport and all you see is magazines. Even the books look like magazines. There are at least seven separate magazines still interested in Jon and Kate. Dead? Magazines? Who says so? The Internet.
Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media
Murdoch and others are the King Canutes of the business world, trying to hold back the tides.
Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago