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Is the L.A. Times the new ground zero of newspaper staff cuts and frightsizing? Los Angelenos, of which I am one by nativity but not choice, may think so, imagining L.A. as the center of everybody’s universe. It’s not, of course, but ...
The news is out: Newspaper companies can no longer afford reporters and editors. Today’s L.A. Times announcement is the latest to catch a news cycle of public attention. As well it should. A 17% cut — 150 newsroom jobs — is an ...
The Times’ move to bring the International Herald Tribune website into the brand fold certainly makes sense. The change will add about 7 million uniques to NYTimes.com’s 58 million, a nice 12% boost. One question is why it took so long – ...
As Yahoo burns, the newspaper industry watches, hoping it won’t get singed. The Google/Yahoo search ad agreement has drawn lots of comments over the past couple of weeks, but its impact on newspaper consortium members has gotten little ...
There are two kinds of newspaper stories these days. One kind is the old-fashioned one that tell us something we don’t know. The others — now feeding on themselves in near-frenzy — tell us about the unabated decline of the ...
I’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: ...
Sam, 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 ...
You’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, ...
Summertime 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 ...
Consider the new Big City American journalism and the emerging cast of characters owning it. It’s a page right out of the history books when a few well-heeled titans controlled the press, and its new incarnation could have all kinds of ...
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