February 2009
Correct Me If I’m Wrong T-shirt →
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You can sorta see that there’s a discoloration type stain on the front of this shirt. Totally unrelated:…
Bruce and Bruno give us the year ahead →
Bruce Sterling’s written a great piece in Seed on the Crisis ahead:
Here’s but a taste:
Insurance and building codes. Every year, insurance rates soar from mounting “natural” catastrophes,…
January 2009
I just found out Grant Morrison and I share the same birthday. That explains a lot.
Thousandaires T-shirt →
Forget being a millionaire or billionaire, I would definitely settle for being a Thousandaire. Or hundredaire. Or whatever pays the bils. Special thanks to our model, CompuJeramey.
Martha Stewart Living's editor-in-chief steps... →
Mediaweek.com Michael Boodro, who doesn’t have another job lined up, came to Martha Stewart Living two years ago from Culture & Travel magazine.
The Light is Gone →
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I believe I’ll have another beer T-shirt →
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This shirt may or may not be a reference to the character of T-Hawk in Super Street Fighter…
Additional items for January 30, 2009 →
> Describing The Printed Blog’s content as a hodgepodge is charitable > AP president Curley receives William Allen White citation > Marilyn Thompson named WP deputy AME/national news > …
IRP exists in part to cover stories that the... →
Johns Hopkins Magazine “If our mission in the past was to train the next generation of foreign correspondents, well, maybe there won’t be a next generation of them, at least in the traditional…
Imaging what the newspaper will look like after it... →
Editor & Publisher “In my view of the newspaper sans paper, every journalist is a personality, not just an anonymous byline,” writes Steve Outing. “Just as on Facebook you can become a ‘fan’ of…
Los Angeles Times to cut 70 newsroom positions →
LATimes.com Readers’ Representative Journal That’s about 11% of the editorial staff. “Other departments at The Times will be undertaking similar cost-saving measures, some more painful than the…
W.V. reporter sues county commission after... →
Beckley, W.V. Register-Herald Stephanie R. Ferrell Stover says the county commission was alerted via e-mail that she planned to write about a citizen being barred from speaking at a meeting. The…
Newspapers run as non-profits? What a cop-out! →
New West Network “We’re only in the early innings of figuring out how new business models might replace the industrial-age structures of traditional newspapers, and we’re already throwing in the…
Schreiber: What I won't miss about ESPN ombud job →
The Big Lead
“Staying inside and watching too much television” is one thing departing ESPN ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber won’t miss. “Oh, it will also be a relief not to have…
PEJ begins monitoring content in new media... →
Journalism.org The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, which debuts today, is a companion to its weekly News Coverage Index. “Blogs and other new media are an important part of…
Gannett 4Q earnings down 36% from a year ago →
Associated Press | Gannett “Our results for the quarter reflect the unprecedented turmoil in the economies of both the U.S. and the UK and in the financial markets,” says Gannett CEO Craig Dubow….
Chicago Tribune's performance review memo has an... →
McGuire on Media The “question authority” part of the Chicago Tribune’s performance review standards memo “is a knee slapper,” writes former Star Tribune editor Tim McGuire. “Apparently it means…
A.H. Belo to cut 500 positions, implement other... →
Romenesko Memos A.H. Belo CEO Robert Decherd tells employees at the Dallas Morning News, Providence Journal and Riverside Press-Enterprise that about 500 jobs will be cut, the A. H. Belo Savings…
South Bend Tribune reporters ordered to write... →
Romenesko Memos Beginning Monday, reporters at the South Bend Tribune are required to finish their day by writing a detailed memo explaining what they accomplished. “Yes, your editor will be able…
LAT publisher orders California section killed →
LAObserved.com Eddy Hartenstein has decided to fold local news inside the Times’ front section, despite the unanimous and vocal objections of senior editors. Kevin Roderick reports: “Times…
Shafer on newspapers: "Their dying makes me a... →
The Wrap “I’m romantic about newspapers,” says Jack Shafer, “but whenever I put on my more historic hat, I see that what’s dying here is not the news but the newspaper. And I still think the…
Hope these fragrances contain a sterilization chemical so users can’t reproduce. Harsh? Yes. But they started it. http://tinyurl.com/d264te
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting... →
Romenesko Misc. Reporters from six news outlets — the Charlotte Observer, New York Times, Washington Post, ProPublica, Detroit Free Press, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — are competing for the…
Does the WH press office know about Obama's open... →
Columbia Journalism Review | Huffington Post David Cay Johnston wonders after trying for a week to get someone to pick up the phone. [Related letter.] “So far the Obama administration appears to…
Brewers and Rangers T-shirts →
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According to this countdown, pitchers and catchers report for spring training in just over two weeks. Whoa. Really?…
Imagine! People getting newspapers over their home... →
YouTube Watch a San Francisco TV station’s 1981 report on the future of news distribution. A few of the 100-plus comments about it: “Where can I invest?” “Love it when ‘owns computer’ is a…
Prof: An inauguration story that hasn't been... →
Romenesko Letters
Medill prof Ava Thompson Greenwell (left) asks: Where’s the coverage of the thousands who drove hundreds of miles to attend the inauguration, waited in…
Now the good: This is an old idea, but it’s one that needs some more thought & that 1st nonprofit trailblazer. http://tinyurl.com/djvzjx
NBC has 2 ad slots left for the Super Bowl. Anyone want to go in w/me on one? I’m thinking of a 30-sec. spot of me mooning the audience.
First the depressing news: This site records the death rattles of print magazines. Ugh. http://tinyurl.com/2vhvfv
needs someone to coordinate my medical appts. It’s not that I have a lot, it’s just that they’re scheduled 3 mos. apart & I forget. I’m old.
Plain Dealer's Rosenberg has dropped all but one... →
Cleveland Plain Dealer Donald Rosenberg’s amended complaint eliminates claims that the Plain Dealer defamed him, breached public policy and broke promises he had relied on. Instead, the former…
At least five web-only newsrooms are submitting... →
Editor & Publisher The St. Louis Beacon, ProPublica, MinnPost, Voice of San Diego and Center for Independent Media expect to meet Monday’s deadline for Pulitzer submissions. This is the first year…
CJR: Should The Daily Beast acknowledge Miller's... →
Columbia Journalism Review Judith Miller is writing at The Daily Beast on foreign affairs, but the website fails to mention her flawed NYT reporting. “Acknowledging both her long and distinguished…
Coll: A $2 billion endowment would fund a very... →
NewYorker.com
Paging Warren Buffett and Bill Gates! “You can secure the First Amendment for a generation at a time of historical transformation in national life, and in the…
Cartoonists are bizarrely obsessed with Obama's... →
WashingtonPost.com That’s Michael Cavna’s observation. [President] Obama’s lips have been rendered in such unnatural tints, and at such dimensions, that somewhere, even R. Crumb would blush,” he…
Ten ways to help the Boston Globe survive and... →
Boston Phoenix
One of Adam Reilly’s suggestions: “Get five grumpy, randomly selected readers on video airing their beefs, and then get [a Globe editor] responding, in kind,…
Media General reports $85.5M loss in fourth... →
Associated Press | Media General The publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Tampa Tribune and Winston-Salem Journal said says its loss for the period ending Dec. 28 amounts to $3.86 per share,…
Baltimore Examiner folds after buyer fails to... →
Baltimore Sun | Gawker The Examiner, owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz’s Clarity Media, expected “strong revenue synergies” when it launched in 2006 because of its market proximity to the…
Ex-public radio exec tries to save journalism in... →
Chicago Reader Former WBEZ newsman Ken Davis has lined up journalists from Chicago newspapers, radio stations, blogs and colleges for a save-journalism conference. Michael Miner writes: “The…
Seattle Times union braces for possibility of... →
Seattle Stranger | Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild told members: “We have been preparing for a number of worst-case scenarios, including the possibility that the…
"Smart campaigns know it's a waste of time to... →
Politico.com “Many voters already have a low opinion of the media, and it is unlikely that a campaign can lower it further,” says Roger Simon, writing about the McCain camp bullying the press….
WPer: Demise of print Book World "not worth... →
Washington Post Rachel Shea, who edits the Post’s Book World, says the paper will publish about three-quarters of the roughly 900 reviews it’s carried each year. “Of course it’s disappointing,” she…
ABC denies it's bumping "Nightline" for Kimmel's... →
New York Times
ABC execs insist there’s no plan to make a late-night change, but Bill Carter is told that the possibility of moving “Jimmy Kimmel Live” into the “Nightline”…
Harvard Square's Out of Town News is rescued →
Boston Globe Muckey’s Corp., which already runs newsstands in the Boston area, has signed a five-year lease to take over Out of Town News. “I’m very proud to have the business at such a historical…
LIE TO ME would be better if it cut all the preaching & clunky exposition. There’s a good TV show there, it’s just not the one airing.
Had the urge to buy a Rorschach figure at the comic book store, but my loyalty to Alan Moore overpowered my action figure addiction.
Last week, I mentioned KFC’s Frak Pack sounded like a bad idea. It appears I wasn’t the only one. http://tinyurl.com/c93k5j
Sometimes your old college classmates surprise the hell outta you. In pretty amazing ways. http://tinyurl.com/dcplf2
LumiGram →
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