So I read yesterday that the L.A. Times has finally done in the book review section. Sad, short sighted, and just another bad omen for the print world.
New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media
Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and de...
DealBook | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, who now runs the social networking site Ning, kept up his death watch for old media Wednesday morning. In a morning...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
What's the difference between Sam Zell's Los Angeles Times and Sam's Bagels on Los Angeles' Larchmont Boulevard? None, if you take Mr. Zell's words to heart.
New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
For newspapers, the news has swiftly gone from bad to worse. This year is taking shape as their worst on record, with a double-digit drop in advertisi...
John McQuaid | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media
The problems we face today don't fit well into the "liberal vs. conservative" culture-war frame. And the editor of a daily newspaper shouldn't have to investigate himself. For six months.
AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — McClatchy Co., the No. 3 newspaper company in the country, said Monday it is slashing 1,400 jobs in the latest effort to cut costs am...
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media
After another jarring 3.5% decline over the past six months, print-paper circulation will drop to about 50 million this year -- the lowest level since 1946.
James Boyce | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media
Every six months, the large city newspapers are reporting circulation declines of 3% to 8% and the cumulative effect of those declines is stark, and foretells the coming end of the newspaper era.
Forbes | JOSHUA ZUMBRUN and BRIAN WINGFIELD | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business
If you're being affected by the downturn in housing or financial services, hang in there. At some point, those industries will rebound. Others should ...
David Simon | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media
Let's happily concede that all criticism stands and get to the real fun: something happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 02.11.2008 | Media
Newspapers are not going to go the way of carbon paper and rotary phones. It's worse than that. It's an industry with a wasting disease that will rob us of essential benefits that we have forgotten how to appreciate.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 01.15.2008 | Media
You don't hear the porn business whining about intellectual property and illegal downloads, and consumers as thieves -- they're too busy trying to give the world what it seems to want.
Lauren Rich Fine | Posted 11.16.2007 | Media
I conducted an interview with the publisher and the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; the revelation for me was that newspapers need to re-engage their communities.
Silicon Valley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 11.16.2007 | Business
Gannett's flagship publication USA Today is eliminating 45 newsroom jobs, a 9% editorial headcount cut, to offset declining revenue. USA Today is the ...
Eric Deggans | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media
Now it seems obvious how Martin was going to try slipping more media consolidation past a public steadfastly opposed to it.
New York Times | Kevin Martin | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media
In many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those news...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media
The FCC Chairman has taken to the op-ed page of the New York Times to propose that big-city papers should now be permitted to purchase a television or radio station in their market.
Journalism.co.uk | Oliver Luft | Posted 11.06.2007 | Media
The editor of Timesonline today told the Society of Editors conference that Google was 'hugely dangerous' to the newspaper industry. Responding to a ...
New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 10.01.2007 | Business
As the newspaper industry bemoans falling circulation, major papers around the country have a surprising attitude toward a lot of potential readers: D...
Media Matters For America | Posted 09.11.2007 | Media
This project did something that has never been done before: It amassed data on the syndicated columnists published by nearly every daily newspaper in ...
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Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media