Sunday Morning in the Blogosphere

Presidents’ Day, officially Washington’s Birthday, in the United States, holiday (third Monday in February) popularly recognized as honouring George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Hedge fund guts newspapers - The Gazette

Magazine Publishers Race to Capitalize on the Paywall Trend - Folio

Tribune Publishing Recognizes 'Hartford Courant' Newsroom Union - NPR

Los Angeles Times Labor Dispute Escalates - Los Angeles Business Journal

Google’s Planned Audio News Service Is Dangerous for News Industry - INMA

At least 40 newspapers cancel 'Non Sequitur' comic strip - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Apollo Global Management to Buy Majority Stake in Cox Media - Cox Enterprises

LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, and movies - Boing Boing

This website impersonated a fact-checking outlet to publish fake news stories - Poynter

Newspapers are not non-profit ... Newspapers are a for-profit business - Park Rapids Enterprise

Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere

David Joe enjoying his fifth year of retirement

The media is dead, long live the media! - Common Space

Newspaper vending rack boxes discontinued - The News Eagle

RELICS: Duluth history pressed into paper - Duluth News Tribune

This is big. Really big. “Bozo’s Circus: The 1960s,” - Robert Feder

Why people stick with the newspaper game - Bucks County Courier Times

Media Layoffs Spread While Facebook Hits $55 Billion in Revenue - The Stranger

The EU's proposal lets newspapers decide who can link to their sites - BOing BOing

Gannett rejects $1.36 billion buyout offer from Digital First Media - Chicago Tribune

By preserving local newspapers, Times performs a public service - The Wilson Times

Don’t launch a newsletter like I did. Use this guide to get it right from the start. - Poynter

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

A sight that is slowly disappearing 

Sun-Times newsroom staff approves one-year contract - Robert Feder

Catholic high school suppressed student newspaper article - Boing Boing

How a Trump tariff is strangling American newspapers - Washington Post

Facebook algorithm changes dented digital audience growth - Press Gazette

300+ Newspapers Reveal Impact Of Google, Facebook And Twitter - Forbes

This 140-year-old California weekly rents out its building on Airbnb - Poynter

A decades-old newspaper battle rambles on in small-town Pennsylvania - CJR

Increased Costs and Low Circulation Shutting Down Iranian Newspaper - Iran News

Your News Organization Has Paying Digital Subscribers. Now How Do You Keep Them? - NL

GateHouse offers voluntary severance packages to some Tribune employees - Columbia Missourian

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

2nd and Hill, looking north, with a nice view of the Hill Street Tunnel, 1930s. Photo Dick Whittington

LA Times is moving to El Segundo - Curbed LA

Best practices for covering mass shootings - Poynter

Inside Orb’s approach to global storytelling - Editors Weblog

Newsprint tariffs hit newspapers hard - The San Francisco Chronicle

FP Newspapers Inc. Reports First Quarter 2018 Results - Stockhouse

LA Times Sale Uncertainty Sinks Tronc Shares 8 Percent - The Wrap

Newsroom Staff at Southern Illinoisan Votes Unanimously to Unionize - EP

Newspaper runs gun show ad on front page below Parkland massacre story - BoingBoing

Is The Idahoan a legitimate newspaper, or another 'baby Breitbart'? - Columbia Journalism

Can tronc, Inc. (NasdaqGM:TRNC) Rise? Price Index Reaches 1.04475 - Yankee Analysts

Saturday Morning in the Blogosphere

With marijuana about to become legal on Monday in California 

I spotted this truck in Pomona delivering products

Death to the Mass(es)! - Medium

And A woman shall lead them - NiemanLab

The Washington Post still plays catch-up - NBC News

In 2018, don’t let your brain get hacked - Washington Post

20 Of The Best Nonprofit News Stories Of 2017 - BuzzFeed

The most noteworthy fact-checking highlights of 2017 - Poynter

Hedge funds killed the newspaper industry, not the web - Boing Boing

Journalists show their support for LATGuild - Los Angeles Times Guild

Better News Website Offers Free Resources on Newsroom Innovation - EP

California Today: A Union Battle at an Anti-Union Bastion - New York Times

America’s 25 dying industries include sound studios, textiles, newspapers - USA Today

The end of newspapers as we know them

Clay Shirky has some some truths: "Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable format once a day. Perhaps advertisers will decide 'Click to buy' is for wimps. Mobile phones: could be a fad. After all, anything could happen with print. Hard to tell, really."

The other significant point is that journalists are being kept deliberately in the dark about the fortunes of their employers. When asked to estimate their own circulation, they overestimate it by an order of magnitude. It's the sharp between the newsroom and the business side: "

Cory Doctorow

It's Internet Freedom Day

It's Internet Freedom Day: time to share MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

 

From Boing Boing:  MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech is copyrighted. Share it anyway.