May 6, 2024
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Important Details: As soon as entrepreneur Sam Zell closed on the Tribune Company transaction, taking the third largest US news publisher private at the end of 2007, he promised new thinking applied to old newspaper problems. Zell has sold one major Tribune asset – Newsday – to ...
Read MoreI’d like to read the Los Angeles Times manual on "how to deal with difficult situations." Though it’s never been made public, it’s clear it’s been infiltrated by those disseminating disinformation. The result: no matter what seems to happen at the Times in the ...
Read MoreIn the mid-’90s, we called it “eating your own dogfood.” In other words, using and participating directly in the medium in which you worked. Use your own website, actually read your own paper. Trying to enter an online classified. Submitting a community event online. So, as ...
Read MoreSo, it’s clear, that Randy Michaels knows how to draw attention. His 50/50 ad/news plan isn’t exactly revolutionary, but it’s become a lightning rod for the news industry, as it comes to grip with near-death experience. Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch opined that print would ...
Read MoreSam, I get it. You’re being aggressive. When you add to Randy Michaels’ aggressive talk about cutting newspaper size and staff that “I promise you he is underestimating the level of aggressiveness with which we are attacking this whole challenge,” you seem to be proudly ...
Read MoreYou’ve had the sensation. You DVR up last night’s The Daily Show or Colbert Report, expecting some laughs and relaxation, and you get them. But you get more: You get news reporting, stealthy news reporting that pretends to be comedy, but is actual news. Last week, I loved Jon ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Knight Foundation, emerging as a vital node in pushing forward digital journalism, is going younger and more global in its recent grants. The foundation, with more than $2.5 billion in assets, has funded traditional journalism projects, many academically-based, over the ...
Read MoreAn acid test of newspapering is how a paper reports on itself. We’re taught to be cautious, even leaning over backwards, to make sure that stories involving the paper, or its parent companies, are done according to basic journalistic standards, meaning fairly and with neither fear nor ...
Read MoreSummertime and the livin’ is far from easy. Now that we’re past Memorial Day, let’s speculate on the summer that will be. It’s a long time til Labor Day for the news industry. We’ve seen Rupert Murdoch, ironically drawing stark attention to his own advanced age ...
Read MoreImportant Details: With print revenues plummeting and online revenue growth slowing, news publishers are looking to shake things up. Three recent changes call for highlighting: TBO.com, the site of the Tampa Tribune and WFLA-TV, is harnessing the power of breaking news as it never has before. ...
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