Monday Morning in the Blogosphere

Sun-Times to welcome back Roger Simon - Robert Feder

The Top 7 US Corporate Investors In Media - Value Walk

Deciding who decides which news is fake - Editors Weblog

tronc, Inc.'s (TRNC) stock price is now at $14.12 - Hot Stocks Point

A power struggle emerges within Tribune parent's boardroom - Crain's

The Tronc’s buy rating reiterated at Noble Financial - Petro Global News

Facebook continues to be under fire for peddling fake news - Tech Crunch

The WaPo-NYT newspaper war that wasn’t - Columbia Journalism Review

Soon-Shiong Out as Vice Chair of LA Times Parent - Los Angeles Business Journal

Meeting Jimmy Breslin, the best bleeping newspaper columnist of all time - Poynter

Friday Night in the Blogosphere

The printing presses have been removed from the 

Los Angeles Times Costa Mesa Facility

The Desert Sun is hiring! - Luis Gomez

Tribune Rises in NYSE Debut - Broadcasting Cable

Newspaper Guild takes Time to task - New York Post

Geeks Bearing Gifts: No Mas Mass Media - Jeff Jarvis

Crain’s new website holds ‘open house’ - Robert Feder

Images of protests on front pages and homepages - Poynter

In California news is free; donations welcome! - Editors Weblog

Editors and staff of The New Republic resign en masse - LAObserved

100 Layoffs Happening at OC Register, Riverside P-E - Gustavo Arellano

Michigan newspapers may lose monopoly on legal notices - Talking New Media

Monday Night in the Blogosphere

New York publishers mull more layoffs - Poynter

O.C. Register names new publisher - O.C. Register

The Huffington Post offers agencies content lessons - Digiday

Newspaper renewal scam making rounds in Valley - KVVU Las Vegas

Newspapers are not dead, and I dare you to say they are - Thomastontimes

How can we grow audiences through online engagement? - Editors Weblog

Mexican activist killed on air during radio show in Mazatlan - The Guardian

NY Times chess column ends in print; could continue online - Capital New York

Advocate joining forces with Sun Herald for greater Gulf coverage - The Advocate

Tribune Publishing Is Undervalued After Recently Being Spun Out - Seeking Alpha

The Official Farewell to LAT Martin Beck

From: Bermudez, Shirley
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:50 PM
To: yyeditall
Subject: Message from Jimmy Orr

Colleagues,

You may have already heard this on social media, but a tweet or a post on Facebook just wouldn’t do this announcement justice.

After spending most of his journalism career with The Times, our social media chief, Martin Beck, will be leaving us. He will be joining Third Door Media to write for Search Engine Land and Marketing Land, one of the top sources reporting on the rapidly changing fields of search, social media and related digital trends.

In the last four years, Martin has guided us steadily into an era in which social sites have become a major platform for news, one that rivals search in volume and exceeds it as a source of engaged readers of our journalism.

Martin has led our efforts to grow our presence and engagement in social media. During Martin’s tenure, our brand-level social media presence soared, with annual growth of 2,600% in the number of likes on the Times’ Facebook page and follower growth of 320% on the @latimes Twitter account.

Our newsroom is indebted to his training and organization. He’s also supervised the too-often-thankless task of wrangling our readers and their often-outlandish comments, and helped usher in an improved comment system. This was not the first time Martin helped bring technology to our newsroom. Most of us in the last decade have had an experience of being rescued by Martin on one thing or another.

He was one of the pioneer “web deputies” helping to integrate the website and print newsroom, especially in Science, Health, Environment, Obituaries and Metro. Before that, he was a key member of the News Operations department and the CCI “swat team” implementation.

He started at The Times in Orange County Sports in 1989, working for 12 years as a reporter, copy editor and designer, not long after he earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and bachelor’s degrees in political science and economics from UC Irvine.

Martin will be sorely missed, but we’re fortunate that he has helped build a solid team of Stacey Leasca, Lindsay Barnett and Michelle Maltais, who will continue our charge into reader engagement. Stacey, who joined us last year from Global Post, will continue to focus on enhancing our social reach with Lindsay’s help, and Michelle, who has also been in the forefront of integrated technology and journalism, will take over the community management duties and usher in the new comment system. You’ll hear more about that soon.

Jimmy

Wednesday Night in the Blogosphere

Former pressman Victor Banuelos

eBay's founder joins digital news scrum - Gannett Blog

Why NowThis News Has Traditional Media Scrambling - Mashable

Newspapers are a great bargain — until they're gone - The Providence

Why Google May Be Journalists’ New BFF - Newspaper Death Watch

L.A. Times will no longer print letters that deny climate change - Poynter

Times, Tribune sued by former sports writer T.J. Simers - Los Angeles Times

International Herald Tribune becomes International NY Times - Editors Weblog

Patch editor realizes there’s hanky-panky going on in pumpkin photo - Romenesko

Delivery costs, declining readership buffet African-American newspapers - Crain's

Newspaper's Display Box Vandalized Following Alleged Swap Incident - Daily Voice

Wednesday Afternoon in the Blogosphere

Production Facility Los Angeles Times

'Stop talking about the death of print': Sacks - Print Can

News and Record cuts more jobs - The Business Journal

Why another round of furloughs may be near - Gannett Blog

Freedom Hires Publisher for Long Beach Daily - OC Business Journal

New Media Director doesn’t care if The Daily Texan folds - Romenesko

Dallas Morning News rewards employees for revenue ideas - Editors Weblog

2 SC sisters delivering newspapers thwart possible kidnapping - Herald Online

Charles Koch: Tribune Newspaper Bid Is Not On The Front Burner - Huff Post

Tribune Co. Copies Rupert Murdoch With Split of Newspaper, TV Units - Forbes

The Best Thing We Could Find About Tribune's Newspaper Split - Business Week