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Marie Woolf: Take a Listen! It's Not Journalism, It's Just Another App

2013-06-17T08:54:21Z

Broadcast is not blogging, news media is not New Media, and serious reporting is not riffing. Considering the age and attention span of the mobile and smartphone demographic, why is media in such a panic to cater to them?

Read more: Digital Media, Social Media, Newspapers, Mobile Devices, Koch Brothers, Smartphones, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Pbs Newshour, iPhone Apps, Baby Boomers, Millennials, Media News

Andy Plesser: New York Times: Does Politico, Other New Content Syndicators, Have an Agenda/Bias?

2010-01-18T09:55:40Z

As newsrooms shrink, newspapers are looking to a new crop of outside reporting organizations for specialized content. These new outlets migh...

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The Guardian Makes A Huge Splash In The U.S.

2013-06-08T09:29:57Z

LONDON -- Before this week, the Guardian newspaper's gradual move into the U.S. – hiring dozens of employees in the last two years – hadn'...

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Washington Post Rolling Out Paywall

2013-06-05T11:47:55Z

The Washington Post will begin to roll out its paywall on June 12, the newspaper announced Wednesday.

"We hope you will consider subscribing even ...

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Rev. Peter M. Wallace: The Institution May Be Dying, But The Need Is Not

2013-06-05T10:48:35Z

No matter what denomination or faith tradition, organized religion is declining. And yet people still yearn for a connection to their spiritual core, a relationship with the reality beyond themselves.

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WATCH: Do Newsrooms Still Need A Social Media Editor?

2013-05-31T16:23:22Z

There was a time when the social media editor was the only person in a newsroom responsible for obsessively monitoring social platforms. With journali...

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Helene Cohen Bludman: Is the Daily Newspaper Passé?

2013-05-31T11:10:05Z

It startles me to even think this way, but let's be honest. Who has time to linger over the daily paper anymore? With our rushed morning schedules, we barely manage to pick it up from the driveway and toss it in the house.

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Warren Buffett Buys Another Newspaper

2013-05-30T11:34:53Z

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is adding The Roanoke (Va.) Times to its growing group of small and medium-sized newspapers.
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News Corp. Promises 'Relentless' Cuts At Newspapers

2013-05-28T16:31:07Z

May 28 (Reuters) - Robert Thomson, chief executive of the new News Corp, said there will be "relentless" cost cuts in store for the newspaper busine...

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Mark Rice: The Need for Common Frames of Reference

2013-05-22T18:33:48Z

One of the great achievements of the Internet has been the explosion of websites, blogs, etc. dedicated to politics and the news. This very same achievement, however, has paradoxically resulted in the erosion of a common frame of reference for understanding the news.

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Two More Staffers Resign From Village Voice

2013-05-20T13:10:17Z

Two more Village Voice staffers — food critic Tejal Rao and staff writer Nick Pinto — announced their resignations on Monday.

"I've resigned f...

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Michael Sigman: What's Really Behind All Those Village Voice Layoffs

2013-05-19T13:56:28Z

When I heard about Friday's layoffs at the legendary, historic, iconic alt weekly The Village Voice, I Googled "Village Voice + layoffs." It took hour...

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Village Voice 'Devastated' By Reported Layoffs

2013-05-17T11:44:12Z

Last week, top editors at the Village Voice resigned in protest when they learned that management wanted them to lay off several members of their alre...

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Ariel Gore: Ten Things I Love About Print

2013-05-14T17:23:07Z

Brainless print publications that were only in business to chase advertising dollars might be dying a long-overdue death, but if I have anything to say about it, print itself lives.

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Man Proposes With Custom-Made Word Puzzle

2013-05-14T15:29:09Z

One Canadian woman had to put her puzzle-solving skills to the test in order to get her marriage proposal.

Canadian IT worker James Dunn proposed ...

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Newspaper Staffers Strike Against Publisher

2013-05-10T14:04:32Z

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Known for bringing in celebrities and smiling in photographs next to former Western leaders, a flamboyant Nigerian newspaper p...

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A War On The Koch Brothers

2013-05-09T15:02:39Z

The fight is on against possible Koch Brothers ownership of the Tribune papers, which include the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.

Unions and...

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Bleak Week For New York Media Industry

2013-05-09T13:21:08Z

It's another bleak week for the New York media industry, as layoffs and buyouts hit three of the city's newspapers.

Two editors quit the Village V...

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Former Police Officer Gets Jail Time In Murdoch Scandal

2013-05-09T11:50:42Z

LONDON (AP) — A former British police sergeant has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for trying to sell details about a celebrity couple's daughte...

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Robert Greenwald: Koch Brothers Bought America's Universities, Now the Billionaires Want to Buy Our Free Press...

2013-05-06T15:31:46Z

We've seen how the Kochs have financially influenced the curriculum of colleges and universities. Allowing a pair of conservative billionaires to buy free press will only serve to advance their tea party ideology and take over our democracy.

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Warren Buffett Has Good News About Newspapers

2013-05-05T10:21:48Z

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway shareholders should expect decent returns on the newspapers the company has bo...

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Mark Steinberg: Media Bombshell: Koch Brothers To Dictate Radical Changes at LA Times

2013-04-26T16:02:21Z

A document obtained today by this reporter reveals that right-wing Texas billionaire brothers Charles and Bill Koch, rumored for months to be planning a takeover of the venerable Los Angeles Times, are secretly detailing changes they intend to make after they assume control.

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Tom Engelhardt: Manhunt for the 'Romance' of the Press

2013-04-25T11:59:27Z

Can there be any question that, as the newspaper fades, we're entering a new age of conglomerated mainstream chaos? You only needed to check out the "coverage" of the Boston Marathon bombing aftermath.

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Todd Gitlin: Is the Press Too Big to Fail?

2013-04-25T10:49:26Z

Will it do for journalists and editors to remain thoroughly tangled up in their own remarkably unquestioned assumptions about what constitutes news? It's long past time to reconsider some journalistic conventions.

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NYT Editor Attacked By Anonymous Staffers

2013-04-24T07:22:15Z

Is Jill Abramson already on her way to losing the loyalty of the New York Times staff? Or are New York Times staffers just "whiny" and sexist?

That...

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