Reuters. A brainstorming session featuring our pals at the East Bay Express :
newspapering
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An ironic post about the future
[ Enlarge ] The irony being that I’m posting this on our blog. Hug me, cold, bleak future.
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Chronicling the decline
More troubling news in newspaper-land: The San Francisco Chronicle may be at death’s door , judging from a memo sent to employees this morning, which reads in part, Despite all of our best efforts as an organization, The Chronicle continues to show staggering losses each week. The organization’s new plan of attack? Better efforts, including […]
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Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)
Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption): If you read last week’s “Town Dandy” or the most recent Sims-Heraldo sparring match, then do yourself a favor and read this long, sad, frightening essay by Paul Starr from this week’s New Republic. Same nut graf, but this is a far […]
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MediaNews Slips, Slips Further
Noting that the credit rating of the Times-Standard ‘s parent corporation, MediaNews, recently fell into deep junk status, the Reflections of a Newsosaur blog’s “Default-O-Matic” registers the company as one of the two big chains most likely to default on its debt in the imminent future. Moody’s now rates MediaNews at Caa3 , which represents […]
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The New York Times API.
links.The New York Times API.: Here’s the news industry’s Very Big Deal for this
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Premature Blogulation
Checking my RSS feed for Humboldt blogs this morning, I came across a surprising story on Heraldo titled “Crawford heads Chamber” saying: Eureka political dude and Humboldt Herald regular Chris Crawford is the new head of the Eureka Chamber of Commerce. Hearty congratulations were doled out at Tuesday’s Eureka City Council meeting. Crawford is an […]
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Mandatory unpaid vacations at T-S
If you thought the Times-Standard’s victory in the battle of Eureka dailies meant a return to gluttonous days of plenty for the 154-year-old paper, think again. MediaNews, the Denver-based parent company of the T-S , today announced that all employees — company-wide — must take a one-week furlough sometime during February or March. That means […]
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IMHO
We’re still wondering about the deal between the Times Standard and the late Eureka Reporter that mandates the T-S running E.R. op ed pages twice a week. Does anyone read Peter Hannaford’s submitted editorials before they go to print? Is the page sent as camera-ready copy? Now we make little copy-editing mistakes every week in […]
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The Triad of Death!!!
Massive hat tip to Eureka’s Tom Fredrickson, he of ” Old Glory Radio ,” for bestowing such an awesome handle upon the Journal: We’re in good company. Tom gets a kick out of playing the square, but he’s not really suited for the part. Watch the video and note the goofy, zonked-out grin that wants […]
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MediaNews Downgraded
… to a “substantial risk of default,” says Moody’s Investors Services. The company has a debt of close to $1 billion. But the Times-Standard‘s parent corporation bristles at Editor & Publisher‘s musings to the effect that the massive American newspaper super-chain could be headed toward bankruptcy, following the Tribune Co.’s trailblazing path down that road […]
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How Anonymous Are You?
There was some talk over at Heraldo’s the other day about Internet anonymity and the law. (Can’t find the link, sorry.) If I remember correctly, the nut of it was: Under what circumstances can a court force out the identity of an anonymous Internet blogger/commenter? Heraldo’s answer was that anonymous blogging has been ruled to […]