Tribune company math
Instead of investing in delivering more to readers, Tribune plans to ignore the warnings of its last two publishers and cut 10% of the staff.
News organizations step up outsourcing
The company getting work from the Contra Costa Times is KCS in India, which bills itself as the "world's media back office," according to the IHT story. The Los Angeles Times also uses KCS for its graphics.
Daily News, other papers in huge pact with Yahoo
News Group chief executive William Dean Singleton, is intended to help the newspaper industry find firmer footing in a media and advertising landscape upended by the Internet. The Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which includes the L.A. Daily News and seven other Southern California newspapers, is part of MediaNews Group.
A proposal that might save newspapers
Newspapers are not dead yet. But their hoped-for rebirth as Internet ventures requires a new strategy to create value in their journalism. Proposal: Papers should agree to 24-hour delay in release of their content, free, on web.
San Jose Mercury News first wage proposal
Late on Friday, the company delivered to the Guild its proposal for wages, giving us for the first time the real picture of what the company wants from its current employees and how it intends to operate in the future.
Jobs, presses and the future of labor
Like most real, complicated issues, there are many, many shades of gray here.
Google Sees Papers As Next Step For Ads
Google (GOOG) has been testing the sale of remnant ads in Chicago in the Sun-Times, filling ad space that did not receive demand from advertisers. That test has now been expanded to 50 newspapers.
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