Media News

Thinking about a locally owned Globe
Nevertheless, the corporate-ownership model may be reaching the end of its useful life in the newspaper business. The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News have been sold to a local group. The Chicago-based Tribune Co. is under pressure to sell the Los Angeles Times to L.A. investors. Why not here?

Liberal newspapers see falling revenue
At Tribune, revenue fell to $1.35 billion, a 2.5 percent decline from a year earlier; revenue from print advertising fell 2.2 percent, mostly because of weak sales at Newsday.

Editor for Newsday.com/ Long Island
This is an opportunity to be among the elite group that will lead Newsday.com, the award-winning site for Newsday, the area’s leading provider of local news, information, and entertainment vital to Long Island. The Long Island Editor for Newsday.com will help lead Newsday.com by setting the editorial direction of one of the largest news and information web sites. In this role you will also work closely with the newspaper on integration plans that will help streamline of newsgathering and production.

Black Fridays Ahead for Mainstream Media
Third quarter results were terrible in a bull market. Layoffs have to hit before the holidays.

Finke/LA Weekly: Dean of Sycophants
"I’m not very popular on Spring Street nowadays. (Then again, I wasn’t much liked when I worked there either.) An editor at the Los Angeles Times just accused me of “wanting the death” of the paper.

Left Trembling at Los Angeles Times Shake-Up
What the L.A. Times desperately needs is cost-cutting and some balance in its reporting.

LA Times columnist sees survival of newspapers now at stake
NEARLY 90 years ago, Walter Lippmann wrote, "The newspaper is in all itsliteralness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a peopledetermines its conduct."