blogs the new model

Newspapers Now Stuffed Full Of Blogs, But No Clue Where To Put Them

This week, motorcycle enthusiast Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor of the New York Times, said that his department is starting a new blog, "The Board." It'll join the paper's 14 other Opinion section blogs, including the Opinionator, which discusses the op-ed pages of other newspapers and will benefit from being freed from the Times now-dead paywall, TimesSelect. The Times looks to be the newspaper blog leader—they have 40 active blogs, not counting seasonal blogs like David Carr's movie awards season craziness, beating the Guardian with 18, the New York Daily News with 22, the Wall Street Journal with 16 active blogs, the Los Angeles Times with 27, the San Francisco Chronicle with 26, the Miami Herald with 31, and the Chicago Tribune with 33, for a random sampling. But. Do you read any of these blogs? more »

4:16 PM ON THU SEP 27 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by Aatom: @newtojezebel: If you're real, I don't get it. If you're a prank....I still don't get it. more »

the old model

How's The Journalism Job Market?

We like to take stock of the journalism job market through the most obvious raw data: Job listings! This week, the Chicago bureau of the New York Times posted an ad for a reporter/office clerk/stringer. You should have: a minimum of a "few years" experience at a newspaper, and should be able to order office supplies while reporting other people's stories—and you should know that the "right applicant will care more about getting good stories and learning the craft than about the paycheck." So we're going with: The job market unrelentingly sucks. more »

10:00 AM ON FRI AUG 31 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by gawkimo: Setting aside the loose interpretation of "journalism" applied here (for some reason I have a problem putting Daniel Pearl in more »

the old model

Laurel Touby's Dad Hates Gay Pimps

While doing a bit of research today, we were guided to this delightful essay from over the winter by new Mediabistro-selling millionairess Laurel Touby's dad, Frank Touby, who's a columnist up in Canadia.

Turn to the back pages of Now, or Toronto Star's sister publication Eye, or Quebecor's Toronto Sun, or some of the gay publications and you will see what whoremongers these unabashed corporations truly are. Their pages are rife with ads selling intimate sexual acts with girls and boys, women and men. These corporations are pimps by definition.
Oh, it goes on! A great lunch read.

Newspapers pimp like biker gangs [Toronto Bulletin]

2:46 PM ON WED JUL 18 2007
BY CHOIRE
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Latest by mathnet: @Colonel Mustard: corporation more »

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Newspaperfolk Fail To Confront Craig Newmark

This morning's opening session of the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention at the Marriott Marquis did not, for the most part, stray from the now-tired narrative about newspapers and their modern troubles. The publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, the rather improbably named Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., said that newspapers are preserving something called youth-oriented content. (Think of the children!) Journalism, he reminded the crowd, advances a great value to the nation. The crowd seemed to totally agree! John Sturm, who is the president of the Newspaper Association of America—whose board has five women among its 35 members, including Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson—made a joke about the Broadway play Spamalot, which some conference attendees are attending tomorrow night. Synergy! He also said that the Internet is the future. "When you add everything together, our audience is increasing!" he promised the crowd. more »

1:19 PM ON MON MAY 7 2007
BY DOREE
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Latest by TedSez: "Born in Atlanta in 1946, Jones went to high school at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. and later received more »

Oprah Media Bubble

Oprah Cancels Presidential Election

  • Oprah Winfrey endorses Barack Obama. Hell, if she can move copies of The Road she can probably sell anything. [NYT]
  • Both the News and the Post have padded their circulation numbers. [AdAge]
  • Jeff Bewkes, likely successor to Time Warner's Dick Parsons, sees a bright future for HBO, noting popularity of OnDemand. [B&C;]
  • HBO CEO Chris Albrecht on demand with Las Vegas PD after domestic violence incident following DeLaHoya/Mayweather bout. [LAT]
    • more »

    10:36 AM ON MON MAY 7 2007
    BY BALK
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    News Corp. Makes Play For Dow Jones

    Just in: Rupert Murdoch and his fleet of News Corp. flying monkeys have made an unsolicited offer for Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal, for $60 a share. This morning, shares in Dow Jones were trading at around $36. The shares shot up to nearly $55 by 11:15 a.m., and trading has been halted. (Note nifty Yahoo finance graph!) Hold on to your hats! And pants! And mostly wallets!

    News Corp. Bids For Dow Jones     [CNBC]

    12:46 PM ON TUE MAY 1 2007
    BY DOREE
    661 views, 7 comments

    Remainders

    Yes: Anderson Cooper, Naked

  • The rumor that Anderson Cooper showers in his underwear at the gym? Decidedly untrue. Anyway, who does that? That's crazy! The gym men would have been staring at him and pointing! [Towleroad]
  • Predator and Umbrager says that spring newspaper circ numbers are in the toilet. [E&P;]
  • The Chumley's chimney comes down very, very slowly. [Curbed]
  • David Halberstam's final speech, given at Berkeley's J-school a couple days before he died, was about journalism and history. And recorded by a Business Week reporter, handily. [Business Week]
    • more »

    7:00 PM ON WED APR 25 2007
    BY DOREE
    4,121 views, 5 comments

    Latest by sven: No shit, dude. Trolling around on Gawker comments on a Thursday morning. Shouldn't you be working? more »

    fontsalad.jpg Newspapers

    The Newspaper As Font Salad

    With newspaper redesigns happening every other week—and more and more of them being conducted by fun-loving text-haters like Mario Garcia—readers are getting more strident attempts at impact shoved in their faces. This guy's gone through the fairly new LA Times and counted 22 font uses (not, probably different fonts, as he says, but definitely different stylings) above the fold. more »

    6:52 PM ON MON MAR 19 2007
    BY CHOIRE
    1,072 views, 6 comments

    MK-AI684A_ADVER_20070225183223.jpg Media

    Media Bubble: Y'All Hear About This 'Radar' Mag?

  • Maer Roshan, the "battle-scarred veteran" of the "buzz-intensive media hothouses" that are New York and L.A. is back, and this time "the buzz seems to be moving back in his favor." That picture can't hurt. [WSJ]
  • Post says: "The Tribune Co. board of directors is considering an offer from real-estate magnate Sam Zell to take the company private..." [NYP]
  • Post also says: "Tribune Co.'s board will stick with plans for a "self-help" restructuring deal despite the 11th-hour offer from Chicago real-estate guru Sam Zell..." [NYP]
  • David Carr: The David Geffens and Ron Burkles of the world have no business choosing the next president; that's the job of newspaper editorial boards. [NYT]
  • Financial Times doing good numbers, at least. [Guardian]
  • Is Dominick Dunne out at Vanity Fair? We have no clue; we didn't know he was still in the Above Ground club. [WWD]
    • more »

    8:34 AM ON MON FEB 26 2007
    BY BALK
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    anationwetc.jpg Anna Nicole Smith

    Anna Nicole Smith: A Nation Mourns

    Here's how the big three local papers covered the tragic passing of Anna Nicole Smith (that'd be the Times at right, of course. Damn you, Keller, show some goddamn respect!). But what about the rest of the country? We took a quick look at the front pages of some random American journals. more »

    9:30 AM ON FRI FEB 9 2007
    BY BALK
    314 views, 19 comments

    united_media_content_img.jpg scripps

    E.W. Scripps Updating Its Obituary For Newspaper Business

    If we were a newspaper cartoonist drawing a cartoon about the state of the newspaper industry, we would currently be sketching another nail being driven into a coffin that we had helpfully labeled "newspaper industry." E&P; reports:
    Wall Street's darling of the newspaper sector, E.W. Scripps, could be exiting the newspaper business. Executives at the Cincinnati-based company stated during an investor conference on Tuesday they are evaluating different options regarding its newspaper assets. Scripps management said they have been looking at different strategies over the past six months to unlock more value in the stock. "Clearly the most advantageous route in some form or fashion [is to] separate the newspaper business from the rest of the business," said Joseph NeCastro, Scripp's executive vice president/finance and administration
    more »

    2:45 PM ON WED JAN 10 2007
    BY BALK
    69 views, 1 comment

    Latest by momo: Saddening: I grew up with The Evansville Press and remember the (then) Scripps-Howard Lighthouse logo on each edition. Uplifting: more »

    danny%20westneat.jpg Newspapers

    Death of the Small-Town Paper: Muckleshoot Memories

    We're at a loss to send up this column by the Seattle Times' Danny Westneat on small-town-paper nostalgia, primarily because Westneat's laundry list of recollections already seems to combine equal parts treacle and David Lynch:
    There was the ex-minister and pedophile who moved back to town. A controversial city plan to shut down a string of bars. A gold bullion dealer raided for money laundering. A local doctor caught having sex with patients.
    And those are the good stories; you'll have to plunge in yourself to hear tell of the "resurgence of the Muckleshoot Tribe," which we're pretty sure happened in the last Harry Potter novel. If that's what Weeville papers had to offer the world of yore, then rest in peace. more »

    5:35 PM ON THU JAN 4 2007
    BY CHRIS MOHNEY
    84 views, 2 comments

    Latest by rilla: ...so this ex-minister, pedophile and doctor who molests his patients walk into a bar, stop me if you've heard this more »

    Huffington Post

    HuffPo May Be Getting Too Big for Its Britches

    The release of the newspaper circulation number has been a revelation, and it's not just the kids over at News Corp who are giving each other fives. James Boyce of the Huffington Post does a little dancing on the grave, picking on his hometown Boston Globe, whose circulation fell 6.7%, and touts the emergence of blogs, sounding much like the G.O.P with its "mandate" about two years ago.
    Mainstream Media can thumb its nose at citizen journalists who post on blogs. Joe Klein can dismiss bloggers going to Las Vegas for YearlyKos with a curt "can't we just stop this crap?"
    more »

    11:41 AM ON TUE OCT 31 2006
    BY SUKI
    28 views, 2 comments

    Latest by raincoaster: I would have no way of knowing what was going on with the Huffpo if it weren't for Gawker. Unlike more »

    Media Bubble

    Media Bubble: People Like News, Especially When It's Pretty

    • The news is still big; it's the newspapers that got small. [Slate]
    • David Carr asks: Is CNN news or entertainment? What, it can't be both? [NYT]
    • Pissing off Dick Cheney was not, in fact, the Times' reason for running its financial-records-spying story, says Bill Keller. [NYT]
    • As we already told you, WWD media man Jeff Bercovici is going to Radar. WWD media woman Sara James, however, is not. She's leaving Women's Wear -- we're sure of that -- but it's just unclear where she's going. [Jossip]
    • Roger Ailes thinks with Fox Newsies aren't working hard enough. [B&C;]
    • Wednesday will be Charlie Gibson's last day at GMA, and his feeling will be hurt if he doesn't get as many video tributes as Katie did. [USAT]
    • Spiers steals David Lat from slutty sister Wonkette for her nascent juggernaut. Next time, she'll just twist Denton's nipple directly, without the intermediary. [WWD (second item)]
    • Bigshot VCs give people like Rafat Ali -- proprietor of the distressingly capitalized paidContent.org and, years ago, an intern where we used to work -- money. [WSJ]

    4:18 PM ON MON JUN 26 2006
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    Media Bubble

    Media Bubble: Malcolm Gladwell Thinks Newspapers Are Like Airlines

    • We did not go to Slate's pre-party panel discussion last night on the future of newspapers in the internet age, as we long ago decided we'd never attend another print-vs.-web panel. Others have a more flexible stance on this issue. [E&P;]
    • Speaking of The Note, Eric Boehlert kind of hates it. [Wash. Monthly]
    • Lauren Weisberger's eye-catching title, The Devil Wears Prada -- by which we mean the actual four words of the title -- perhaps wasn't even her own coinage. The horror! [WWD]
    • Look, mom! We're in Nexis! [Media Mob/NYO]

    3:43 PM ON FRI JUN 23 2006
    70 views, 1 comment

    Latest by Swordfish: re: Slate: A: As if Arianna ever watched Gilligan's Island. B: Love Mr. Time Ed himself Norm Pearlstein blathering on that dailies more »

    Newspapers

    God Gave Us the 'Times' So That We Might Have Roses in June

    A reader writes of the latest marketing stunt, occuring on the corner of 6th Avenue and 57th Street: more »

    ourtown.jpg Hipsters

    'Our Town Downtown' Heralds the End of Manhattan Hipsters

    Avenue publisher Manhattan Media annouces today their plans to publish Our Town Downtown, a spin-off of ancient uptown mainstay Our Town. Oh, good -- we were just recently lamenting that there weren't enough free newspapers blowing around the streets these days. more »

    1:45 PM ON WED JUN 7 2006
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    Media Bubble

    Media Bubble: Memoirs May Be Beautiful, and Yet

    • Fortune editor to co-write Alan Greenspan's memoir. He's say he's excited, but that might be viewed as irrationally exuberant. [NYT]
    • And Ted Turner will likely have a memoir coming, too. [NYP]
    • More and more newspaper advertising is shifting to web. Um, duh. [NYT]
    • Elizabeth Vargas needed that anchor chair like a fish needs a bicycle. Honest. [Phil. Inq.]

    2:00 PM ON TUE JUN 6 2006
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