As Eureka Reporter online readers have already discovered to their distress, or at least puzzlement, if you try to summon the recently laid-to-rest newspaper you will encounter this cold note: The Eureka Reporter newspaper has closed its doors and is no longer in business. If you would like to speak with someone regarding business dealings […]
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Eureka Reporter calls it quits
The great daily (or nearly daily) newspaper war has ended with a victory for the Times-Standard. The Eureka Reporter announced today that it will cease to exist after this Saturday, November 8. The announcement evidently came as a surprise to most everyone, including the staffs of both papers. Dean Singleton, CEO of Media News, the […]
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Newpaper War Over; Reporter Folds
But enters into some kind of weird JOA with the T-S? Quoth the Dean: “It’s satisfying to prevail in battle but, as one who loves newspapers, it’s sad to see one go away, but I’m glad the Reporter’s spirit will live on in the pages of the Times-Standard,” Singleton said. Cold blood, folks — that’s […]
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Periodical lemming
From the mouthpiece of liberal elitism (or is it elitist liberalism?), The New York Times, comes this story about the imminent demise of The Christian Science Monitor’s daily print edition. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print. And so it begins. The nonprofit, church-financed fish-wrap won […]
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Journal Kills at CNPA
Booyakasha! Six first-place, two second-place awards — the latter only in categories where we were competing against ourselves. We beat the San Francisco Business Times in business reporting. Our production team got first place for layout and design, and that was in a category without circulation classes. In other words, this year we are officially […]
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One Newsroom To Rule Them All
MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton has been thinking big again. Times-Standard reporters should be very, very afraid. The Associated Press and paidcontent.org are currently carrying accounts of Big Deaner’s speech to the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association yesterday. Apparently Dean chose the occasion to hanky-drop his new scheme for “saving” the newspaper industry: Consolidation of the entire […]
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The Newspaper War – a Death Match? T-S says yes.
Buried back in the business section of today’s Times Standard is a story by Ryan Burns “T-S files unfair business practices lawsuit against The Eureka Reporter.” Specifically the suit filed by T-S/Tri-City parent corp California Newspaper Partnership (a division of Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc.) alleges that the E-R has been selling ads at a cut […]
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Batley in at ER?
The word coming over the transom this morning is that longtime Eureka Reporter staffer Diane Batley has been tapped to replace departed editor Glenn Franco Simmons. This would seem to confirm some earlier intel we had received, one part of which was that a thorough nationwide talent search came up bupkis. Batley is 32 years […]
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Rich Somerville Found Dead
An unimpeachable source tells us that Times-Standard Editor Rich Somerville was found dead at his Trinidad home yesterday evening. More details as they become available.
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Simmons Out at Eureka Reporter
Eureka Reporter publisher Judi Pollace confirmed this afternoon that Managing Editor Glenn Franco Simmons resigned from the paper today. Pollace said that the resignation was for personal reasons, and declined to elaborate. “We wish him all the luck in the world,” Pollace said. Pollace said that she was in the process of writing an ad […]
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Scratching That Itch
The Baltimore City Paper has a great exit interview with David Simon, creator of The Wire and former all-pro reporter, on the occasion of the end of the series. David Simon: Some people have critiqued the lack of presence of the internet in the Season 5 story. For them, allow me to offer the deleted […]
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Blog on Blog Ruling
Shasta County Superior Court Commissioner Gary Gibson has rejected a request from a reporter at the Record Searchlight in Redding seeking a restraining order against a former friend turned blogging nemesis. Beth Doolittle-Norby’s blog, “No Phat Pink Chicks,” pokes fun at journalist Christy Lochrie’s reporting, looks and personality, according to an AP report , which […]