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Why Are We Surprised E&P and Kirkus Review Closed?

Pauline Millard | Posted 12.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Layoffs, Print Journalism, Unemployment, Nielsen, Editor and Publisher, Media, Journalism, Media News
Pauline Millard

There is an entire sector of jobs that are dissolving every day. It would be wise for those involved to accept it, move on, or else plan to spend a lot time unemployed.

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Jason Linkins

Al-Qaeda Publishes "Dense Little Bastard Of A Magazine"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Al Qaeda Magazine, Media News

Al Qaeda, apparently heedless of the recessionary downturn that's felled so many publications in the freedom-loving world, is currently publishing a pair of magazines. If print media doesn't die, it could kill you!

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How Sex Could Save Newspapers

Cory Silverberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Media, Sexuality, Print Media, Newspaper Decline, Journalism, Sex, Media News
Cory Silverberg

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.

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Life After Print: URB Magazine 2.0

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Magazi, Print Journalism, Music Business, Print, Web, Death of Print, Websites, Death of Newspapers, Media, Music, Hip-Hop, Paper, Print Media, Web 2.0, Social Media, Pop Music, Hip Hop, New Media, Media News, Music Industry, Web Video, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

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.

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Stopping the Presses: What Will Journalism Resemble in the Post-Print Age?

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Print Media, Rocky Mountain News, USA Today, Media, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Internet Media, Denver Post, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

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.

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Ask a Panicked Print Media Executive

Steve Ross | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Print Media, Social Media, Unemployment, Humor, Satire, Death of Print, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Media, Facebook, Ereaders, Comedy News
Steve Ross

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.

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Is BusinessWeek Worth $1?

Alan M. Webber | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Business Week, Media, Print Media, Print Journalism, BusinessWeek Sale, Businessweek, Media News
Alan M. Webber

BW needs to create a franchise. Because it's not print that's dead, or even print about business that's dead. It's old and tired franchises that are dead, franchises that have run out of gas, purpose and energy.

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Jason Linkins

Sanford Adultery Emails Suggested As Cure For Media Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Mark Sanford, Media Economy, Media Criticism, Mark Sanford Argentina, Sanford Affair, Media News

As many of you know by now, the love that Mark Sanford shared with his Argentinean paramour played out in many, many emails, in which Sanford enumerat...

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Jason Linkins

Dan Froomkin's Firing Leaves Post With Glut Of Neocons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Newspapers, Media Criticism, Washington DC, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Dan Froomkin, Media News

So, now that Dan Froomkin's been fired, what's the Washington Post looking like today? I think that Glenn Greenwald neatly sums it up: --Neocon Char...

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Jason Linkins

Stephen Colbert Demands To Know Why TPM's Josh Marshall Is Not Wearing Bathrobe (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Joshua Marshall, Video, Media Criticism, Stephen Colbert, Josh Marshall, The Colbert Report, Talking Points Memo, Media News

Marshall predicted, jokingly, that TPM would eventually "beat [the New York Times] down." In Colbertian terms, the Times is on Marshall's "on notice" board, but not yet on the "dead to me" list.

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Thanks The New Republic!

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Consumerism, Publishing, Print Journalism, Publishing Industry, Death of Print, The New Republic, Consumer Spending, The-New-Republic, Media News
Amitai Etzioni

I am grateful to The New Republic for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects.

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On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Online News, Death of Print, Barack Obama Supreme Court Pick, Print Media, Print Journalism, Obama Picks Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Obama Supreme Court, Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Obama, Obama Supreme Court Pick, Newspapers, Politics News
Sen. Patrick Leahy

Having a Supreme Court that better reflects the diversity of America helps ensure that we keep faith with the words over the entrance of the Supreme Court: "Equal justice under law."

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Sonia's Wiki Wonder

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Barack Obama Supreme Court Pick, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Death of Print, Obama Supreme Court, Obama, Online News, Sotomayor Supreme Court, Obama Supreme Court Pick, Obama Picks Sotomayor, Media News
Marty Kaplan

Seconds after the networks say that it's Sotomayor, her Wikipedia entry is updated. The newspapers in my driveway can't do that; that's why on-paper distribution is dying.

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Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Publishing, Search Engines, Newspaper Industry, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, News, Online News, Media News
Penny Herscher

The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors -- but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value.

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The Ever-Changing Print Medium

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Hermene Hartman

News deliveries are fast-forwarding. The technologies provide new mediums. I, for one, am not ready for the discard of newspapers, magazines and books.

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Newspapers Want Cash for Content. Tough Luck

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Internet, New York Times, Newspapers, Content-Aggregators, Newspaper Industry, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, News, Online News, Media News
Michael Wolff

Newspapers are going to war with the Internet--or trying to. So far it's more accurately a phony war.

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To Newspaper Moguls: You Blew It

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, News, Online News, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

The Newspaper Association of America is meeting this week and they're preaching angrily and self-righteously about their plight. Here's the speech I think they should hear instead.

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Giving Away Free Netbooks to Save America's Newsrooms

Will Bunch | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Philadelphia Daily News, Netbooks, Newspapers, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, Digital Divide, Philadelphia-Pennsylvania, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Online News, News, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Will Bunch

What if newsrooms put their remaining muscle behind a program to provide information to the public and close the digital divide at the same time? That's "social benefit" we can believe in.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 1, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Fearmongering, Politico, April Fools Day, John Boehner, George W. Bush, Idiots, Texas, Stephen Colbert, Print Media, Video, Red State, Carly Fiorina, Dallas, Carly Fiorina Senate, Politics News

Eat The Press Operative Karla sends us the awesome cover of the April edition of D Magazine, featuring George W. Bush cold-chillin' in some Photoshopp...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 30, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Freakonomics, New Hampshire, Media Criticism, Rush Limbaugh, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Print Media, Jezebel, Iran, L.A. Times, Barack Obama, New Hampshire Polls, Neo-Conservatism, Timothy Geithner, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

L.A. Times contributor Andrew Klavan DOUBLE DOG DARES YOU intolerable lefties to listen...just listen!...to Rush Limbaugh's show! Because if you did,...

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Jason Linkins

Bleak Media Economy Now Affecting Cartoon Journalists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Brenda Starr, Editor and Publisher, Chicago Tribune, Media Economy, Media News

It's getting so hard out here for print journalism that now even our beloved intrepid fictional reporters are feeling the pinch. So says Editor and P...

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Is It Time For a Newspaper Bail-Out?

Johann Hari | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Sarkozy Newspapers, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, News, Online News, Nicolas Sarkozy, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Johann Hari

In an age of bail-outs, several European governments are experimenting with ways to support the world of news-gathering so it will survive for the twenty-first century.

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Why Didn't the P-I Fold Sooner?

Ben Stoddard | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Internet, Media News
Ben Stoddard

As sad as I am to see some smart, hard-working journalists losing their jobs, I can't help but wonder: why did it take so long?

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Is the Axe Headed for Newspapers?

Marisa Treviño | Posted 01.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Newspapers, Old Media vs. New Media, The Death of Newspapers, Old Media Death Watch, Death of Newspapers, News Industry, Media, Newspaper Industry, Old Media, Media News
Marisa Treviño

When I hear industry professionals say that people don't like to read these days, I have to wonder just how detached they are from what's going on in the world.

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Do Film Critics Have a Future? Who Cares?

David Sterritt | Posted 12.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Print Media, Film Criticism, Media, Internet Journalism, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Movies, Entertainment News
David Sterritt

As chairman of the National Society of Film Critics for several years, I've seen the number of real journalistic jobs held by our members drop at an alarming rate.

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