March 2010
Dow Jones, union reach tentative agreement on... →
VillageVoice.com The contract, which has yet to be approved by members, calls for a 17-month salary freeze, after which a minimum increase of 2 percent will be applied in each of the next three…
Some notice O'Reilly has mellowed out a bit →
Los Angeles Times
“Some of the conversations are still heated, but you may not see the vein explode anymore,” says Bill O’Reilly’s executive producer, Amy Sohnen. ||…
Wall Street Journal on the history of its hedcuts →
WSJ.com
The Journal’s Brian Aguilar notes that “each intricate portrait can take up to five hours to complete, with countless little dots. But in an emergency, artists can…
NPR: Why we use 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice' terms →
NPR.org They’re more conversational and not as cumbersome to say on air as “abortion rights activists” or “abortion opponents,” say NPR editors. Ombud Alicia Shepard writes: “The problem with…
Zimmer: It's a little intimidating to follow... →
NPR.org “Especially because I can’t reproduce William Safire’s very distinctive voice,” says Ben Zimmer. “I’ll put my own stamp on [the New York Times Magazine column]. I’ll come at it in some…
An ingenious way to stop discouraging newspaper... →
Poynter Online - The Biz Blog Under the Audit Bureau of Circulation rule changes, newspapers are likely to report a higher total than they would have under the old rules — and are certain to have…
Amanpour: "This Week" won't be radically different... →
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CNN
The ABC News Sunday morning show will continue its tradition of covering domestic politics, while also broadening its focus with…
Hearst quietly begins search to replace Town &... →
New York Post Pamela Fiori — one of the longest-serving chief editors at Hearst — has tried to shed T&C’s image as a magazine for the older, elitist Social Register set, reports Keith J. Kelly,…
Think I’m going to drop certain keywords inappropriately & out of context to see how many followers connected to those words I pick up.
Cincinnati Enquirer apologizes to lawmaker in... →
Cincinnati City Beat The apology, which ran on Page A-13 in Thursday’s paper, stated: “Yesterday we ran an advertisement paid for by the Committee to Rethink Reform that featured a photograph of…
I’ve been to Muncie. I would totally get a timeshare in Muncie.
It’s OK to smother someone w/a moldy pillow if she says the Crazy Eight is a round of the NCAA tournament. Then it’s OK to pee on the body.
Something about seeing Lee Majors on network TV that assures me every bad thing in my life — nay, the world — is going to be OK.
Looks like I’m watching Hulu tomorrow.
At least I have you, season finale of ARCHER. You haven’t disappointed me w/your baby hands choking me.
Check out @gizmodo’s great weekly series on memory & data. Some really great articles here. http://bit.ly/bf4Sgs
Fuck me! OFFICE & 30 ROCK were not saved on DVR. Stupid BREAKING BAD recordings & catching up on CAPRICA!
Visible quantum superposition. Welcome to the 21st century. http://bit.ly/blqJko (via @warrenellis)
They tried this w/men, but the color always stayed the same. http://bit.ly/djzL2D)
My upset bracket is looking good. Of course, it’s also the bracket that doesn’t have Kansas reaching the championship game.
Still feel like someone scooped out my innards and filled me w/syrup.
Ah, March. It’s that time of year you cheer for universities you’d never actually ever want to attend.
New Theme: Dark Wood →
Hey, Twittersphere! Where are the heartfelt remembrances for Fess Parker? You bunch of hipster poseurs make me want to puke!
Salt Lake Tribune cuts Reader Advocate position →
Salt Lake Tribune editor’s memo
From: Nancy Conway Date: March 18, 2010 1:51:06 PM MDT
Colleagues,
I am sorry to have to tell you that budget considerations make it necessary to cut the…
Amanpour leaves CNN to host ABC's "This Week" →
Politico.com
CNN
CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton says of Christiane Amanpour: “Her work burnished our news brand and gave it authority. In turn, the CNN imprimatur opened…
Additional items for March 18, 2010 →
> Aspen news editor suspended after police incident > SF Chronicle pharm party story called “worst ever” > Toyota wants retraction, apology from ABC News > High school journalists…
Gannett CEO gets big raise after engineering mass... →
Gannett Blog | paidContent.org
A just-released filing reveals that Craig Dubow was paid $4.7 million last year vs. $3.1 million in 2008. His 2009 compensation includes a…
Study: Fail rate for even the 'best' magazines has... →
Miller-McCune.com Between 1986 to 1994, an average of 34% of the magazines failed within five years, according to College of Saint Rose librarian Steve Black, while the percentage rose to 54%…
AP corrects caption on photo first published in... →
Associated Press It now reads, in part, “At the time of its release, this photo was identified as dead and wounded being carried by fellow prisoners during the Bataan Death March in April 1942….
Ford discovers the weird world outside of Harper's... →
The Awl
Christa Neu
“Everyone has MacBooks. People use nouns as verbs,” says Paul Ford, who recently resigned as Harper’s Web editor. “Someone wrote that they were going to…
Philly newsman quits AP to start Elizabethtown... →
phillymag.com “The papers with the big problems are the metropolitan dailies,” says Dan Robrish, who worked for the AP for nearly a dozen years before launching the Elizabethtown Advocate. “Here,…
New York Times announces politics desk changes →
Politico.com Jeff Zeleny becomes lead day-by-day political reporter, Jim Rutenberg joins the political team in an investigative capacity, and Matt Bai becomes a political columnist.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch's 'last, best and final... →
St. Louis Business Journal
The Lee-owned paper’s offer also calls for a week-long, unpaid furlough each of the first three years of the contract, according to the St. Louis…
Ailes: 'We prefer people in the tent not dumping... →
TVNewser.com
Roger Ailes made it clear to his Washington bureau that he wasn’t happy that Fox News employees bad-mouthed Glenn Beck to Howard Kurtz. “I was brought up to…
"We don't have a lot of rules around here," says... →
LAObserved.com Randy Michaels tells his employees that a week after ordering WGN radio on-air staff to stop using 119 words and phrases.
Las Vegas Review-Journal sues NORML, MoneyReign... →
Las Vegas Sun In its lawsuit against the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the Review-Journal alleges that “NORML copied, on an unauthorized basis, the literary work…
Ex-Jane editor Holley loves her Shine job, but... →
New York Times
“She concedes a bit wistfully that her new life as a digital women’s-service journalist is much less glamorous than her old one at Conde Nast’s glossy dream…
Fwix partnership tells us a lot about NYT's... →
Newsonomics.com | Fwix release “Further, it tells us that national papers increasingly are becoming more competitive with local ones,” writes Ken Doctor. Fwix provides a round-up of the best…
I think Paquita La Del Barrio should die! →
I’m just saying.
I’m especially amazed at the balls on this guy considering he’s clearly an ugly drag queen.
What a smelly pirate hooker,
-Shady
Mr. Seamus O’Fabulous wishes you and yours a Happy... →
Yeah, I’m that guy,
-Shady
In honor of Alex Chilton. And no, it’s not The Replacements. ♫ http://blip.fm/~n2j5p
Should one honor Alex Chilton by playing a song by him? Or by playing The Replacements? The masses need to decide!
Skinput →
A novel way to interface with your devices, Skinput:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3XPUdW9Ryg
I can’t see this getting mass adoption; as some people have already commented, you’d…
‘To Age or Not to Age’ - a documentary →
To Age or Not to Age profiles the science of aging, it also addresses some of the moral, religious, practical and economic implications of increased, lifespan. Who will have access to the…
TED Talk: Suspended animation is within our grasp →
The TED Talk that blew everyone away this year; not only have they figured out how to induce a form of suspended animation in humans, it’s already in clinical trials!
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Ben →
I’m always running here and there,
-Shady
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How is Seattle P-I Web site doing, one year later? →
Poynter Online
Hearst Seattle Media general manager Pat Balles says SeattlePI.com averages around 4 million unique visitors per month, with 40 million pageviews. That’s…
I smell bullshit on this one →
Yesterday, a ton of news outlets picked up the story of Donna Simpson. Click here to learn more.
The short of the story is this: Donna Simpson is currently the world’s 43rd heaviest woman at…
ABC News, Amanpour close to deal for "This Week" →
NYTimes.com Media Decoder Bill Carter reports negotiations are close enough to completion that an announcement about Christiane Amanpour hosting “This Week” may be made as early as tomorrow. > If Amanpour goes to ABC News, will “This Week” leave DC?
