February 27, 2009Yet another sad day for journalism today; Rocky Mountain News is closed. This is an award-winning newspaper with a circulation of 300,000 or so that was founded in 1859. Sad hardly begins to describe it. So I offer what I hope is a mildly amusing distraction. Here’s a letter I wrote a couple weeks ago [...]
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February 20, 2009No good news for Scripps, parent company of the Commercial Appeal. It’s bad: a loss of $19 million last quarter, whereas the company earned $44.7 the same quarter a year ago. Among every other source of revenue that fell, classified revenue fell more than 31 percent. Damn you craigslist, for being so convenient. I searched [...]
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February 7, 2009This follows up on my last post, and gives you somewhat of an idea of what it’s like to work at the Journal Sentinel. The video is really hilarious. The staff at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel put together this video to pay tribute to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editor / Sr. Vice President Marty Kaiser who [...]
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February 4, 2009I want to give some props to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and its executive editor, Marty Kaiser. Marty was just named Editor & Publisher’s Editor of the Year for 2009. The Journal Sentinel isn’t immune to what’s going on elsewhere, and has been through a couple rounds of buyouts lately. I hope they hang in [...]
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