Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere

Gearing up for this Saturday's Stamp Out Hunger

Cases of Injustice Against Journalists - One Free Press Coalition

More Than 100 CNN Workers Take Voluntary Buyouts - Deadline

Salt Lake Tribune looks to become a nonprofit organization - KSL

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence - Poynter

Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time - Washington Post

Why Publishers Need to Communicate the Value of Premium Context - Folio

Welcome to the 'Bolder, Easier to Read, More Useful' Plain Dealer - Clevescene

How Publishers are Creating the Right Membership Model for Their Readers - EP

Should Newspapers Discontinue Their Crime Blotter / Mugshots Sections? - Reason Magazine

Fizzle or Sizzle? What's Behind the Numbers For Tribune Publishing Company - Chandler Caller

Sunday Morning in the Blogosphere

A sign of the times, unsold newspapers

A wistful farewell to what we've lost - OC Register

The Perils of Publishing Without a Fact-Checking Net - CJR

Berlin-Based Publication by Refugees, for Refugees - IJNET

If newspapers die, can journalism itself survive? - Blue Ridge Muse

Author Karl Schroeder sees a future for journalism - Editors Weblog

BuzzFeed has started its layoffs, but it’s also talking about a merger - Recode

Layoffs Hit HuffPost After $4.6 Billion Verizon Media Write-Down - Huffpost

'Valley News' Press Operations Prepare to Close in West Lebanon - Valley News

Tribune Publishing versus Gannett (GCI) Head to Head Analysis - Baseball Daily News

Local newspapers have already been gutted. There's nothing left to cut. - Washington Post

Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere

Los Angeles Times under construction

Your newspaper is 150 years old - Blackshear Times

Slain Journalist Captured Libya’s Turmoil - Associated Press

Body of Slain Journalist Found in Northwest Mexico - Reuters

What it’s like to be imprisoned on false news charges - Poynter

The Forward Is Moving on Without Print After 121 Years - Folio

Hedge-Fund 'Vultures' Circle Another Newspaper In Colorado - Patch

Alleged newspaper bandit faces felony charge - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide

BuzzFeed’s Travails Highlight the Self-Destructive Habits of Modern Journalism - WaPo

Noble Financial Reiterates Buy Rating for Tribune Publishing (TPCO) - Fairfield Current

Former Tribune Publishing CEO Justin Dearborn looks to shed Illinois home - Los Angeles Times

Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere

We have a battery stealing crew operating in our area, many businesses, churches, and charities have been targeted. I have a heavy duty chain around the two batteries, and a bale of cardboard in an attempt to stop the thieves. 

Ross Perot, Jerry Jones Behind Tribune Publishing Bid - Newsmax

Robservations: On second thought, Sun-Times brings back TV listings - Robert Feder

Here’s how Vote.org got full-page ads into every college newspaper in the U.S. - Poynter

About the Jewish mourners' prayer on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette front page - Pittsburgh Post

Tribune Media Company stock returned 14.88% positive in past quarter - Wall Street Morning

In Saudi Arabia, WaPo’s coverage of Khashoggi killing fuels calls for Amazon boycott - WaPo

With no election results, Gannett newspapers edge into the future for their print product - Digiday

If You Let Commenters Go After Your Reporters, It Hurts Your Credibility with Other Readers - NL

Shrinking Boston Globe Pursues Funding Alternatives for Accountability Journalism - Media Nation

Digital, international growth are the way forward as China weathers shifting media landscape -  CMP

Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere

Halon filling the press room 

A once unimaginable scenario: No more newspapers - WaPo

New York Times shuts down $11,995 Saudi Arabia tours - CNN

More journalists are assassinated than die in war zones - Foreign Policy

Study: Fake news is making college students question all news - Poynter

The James Beard Foundation Names an Award for Jonathan Gold - Eater

Another private equity firm looking at Tribune Publishing - New York Post

Wall Street Journal Searches for Low-Hanging Fruit of Reader Subscriptions - INMA

Washington Post told lobbyist: Quit working for Saudis or stop writing for us - Politico

Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism - New York Times

What Norwegian Publisher Aller Media Has Learned From its Personalized Paywall - Digiday

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

Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere

Los Angeles Times writer Bob Pool

Journalists Are at Risk Around the Globe - Washington Post

Why next week could be critical for U.S. newspapers - USA Today

These startups are trying to save your local newspapers - WSMV Nashville

You've heard of public TV. How about public newspapers? - Arkansas Times

Low-income people aren’t getting quality news and information - Nieman Lab

Maria Ressa on Facebook, Truth and the Crisis of Democracy - Editors Weblog

What advertising revenue tells us about the newspaper industry - Money Control

Digital startup Colorado Sun plans to cover the whole state in greater depth - Poynter

Reporters Without Borders and its Partners Launch Initiative to Fight Misinformation - EP

Newsroom employment dropped nearly a quarter, with greatest decline at newspapers - Pew

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

We spent two days volunteering at a golf tournament, what wore us out 

was the ninety minute commute each way.

Nunes declares war on the media - Politico

June ABC's: A bleak month for newspapers - Mediatel

Reader revenue tops $130 million at The Guardian - NBC News

165-year-old paper vows to publish despite office fire - Brattleboro Reformer

LCF Resident Promoted to Managing Editor at LA Times - Outlook Newspapers

New trouble for Sinclair-Tribune merger: FCC votes to send it to judge - Poynter

Weekly Arkansas newspaper ceases publishing after 129 years - Arkansas Online

Robservations: FCC blasts Sinclair ‘misrepresentation’ in Tribune deal - Robert Feder

Commission will consider bid to declare LA Times buildings historic monuments - LAT

Funds honoring slain Capital Gazette staff members have raised $685,000 - Washington Post

Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere

Univision Is A F***ing Mess - Gizmodo Media Group

What happens when a local newspaper dies - Washington Post

Owners' greed dooming many newspapers - Sweet Home New Era

Publisher lived her 'dream' at Verde Valley Newspapers - Verde Independent

Patt Morrison discusses and signs Don’t Stop the Presses - Vroman's Bookstore

The Salt Lake Tribune faces layoffs, cuts to print offerings - The Salt Lake Tribune

Billionaire stalls on $500M deal for LA Times, San Diego Union-Tribune - NY Post

Denver Post employees protest ownership with events in Denver and New York - Denverite

Students' survey highlights censorship of Christian college newspapers - Religion News Service

OC Register to charge for unlimited access to digital news to help support local journalism - OCR

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

Our clear skies have vanished this morning

A farewell to free journalism - Washington Post

A Lynching Memorial Is Opening - New York Times

Support flows in for #SaveStudentNewsrooms - Poynter

Vanity Fair Introduces a Metered Paywall - Folio Magazine

Rupert Murdoch Is About to Lose His Fleet Street Crown - Bloomberg

French Nonprofit Houses Refugee Journalists, Defends Press Freedom - CJR

Turkish court sentences 14 journalists and newspaper employees to prison - WaPo

Ashland mourns the loss of 137-year-old newspaper - Virginia Business Magazine

How Journalists Can Better Cover Neglected Communities - American Press Institute

Newsprint tariffs could stretch papers to breaking point - Indianapolis Business Journal

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

The shuttered Los Angeles Times production Facility that was located in Costa Mesa

Tribune shakes up newsroom roster - Robert Feder

Thank God you’re not in newspapers - Nieman Lab

Lend your support to World News Day - Editors Weblog

Tribune Tower sign spat lands in court - Chicago Tribune

LA Weekly leaving Culver City, moving Downtown - LA Curbed

Sinclair Circles the Wagons as Former Employees Speak Out - CJR

Proposed tariffs would be devastating to newspapers - Lancaster Online

The Week in Fact-Checking: Malaysia is criminalizing fake news - Poynter

Sinclair’s Boss Responds to Criticism: ‘You Can’t Be Serious!’ - New York Times

Malicious actors used its tools to discover identities and collect data on Facebook users - WaPo

Wednesday Afternoon in the Blogosphere

Enjoy your newspaper today, could be gone tomorrow

Breitbart’s readership plunges - Politico

A world without newspapers - The Washington Post

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Los Angeles Times

Les Payne, former Newsday editor who won Pulitzer Prize, dies - Newsday

Michael Ferro exits tronc ahead of sexual misconduct claims - Robert Feder

Poynter receives $3 million from Google to teach teens to tell fact from fiction - Poynter

Facebook Is Running Ads in Mexican Newspapers Warning About Fake News - Gizmoto

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Addresses Facebook's Cambridge Analytica Scandal - BuzzFeed

Ferro's Legacy At Tronc: The Dumbest Name In The History Of Corporate America - Forbes

Former Tronc Chairman and Investor Accused of Inappropriate Advances by 2 Women - Fortune

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

Merly and I will be heading back to the Philippines the last week of May for four weeks

iHeartRadio owner files for bankruptcy - CNN Media

More layoffs hit Chicago Tribune newsroom - Robert Feder

Inside The Seattle Times’ Newsletter Strategy - Lenfest Institute

Wisconsin Newspapers Worry Canadian Paper Tariffs Could Cost Them - WPR

This is how we launched a new daily newspaper in just two weeks - The National

Riveting Twitter thread solves a mystery and reads like a serial narrative - Poynter

The most awful kind of grief. The most beautiful memories. So long, son - Chris Erskine

A 40 percent postal rate increase is bad for Americans, bad for the Postal Service - The Hill

Why Sinclair's latest plan to sell major TV stations has critics crying foul - Washington Post

How 3 Newspapers Covered Mexican Deportation During The Great Depression - Kera News

Wednesday Night in the Blogosphere

Sprained my left knee after falling from a semi trailer, 

wearing a similar knee brace and using crutches

Journalists need a mirror - Winston-Salem Journal

Alex Tizon, who died in March, wins an Ellie award - The Atlantic

Google offers olive branch to newspapers - Columbia Journalism Review

Why it’s unfair to compare large and small newspapers - The Washington Post

U.S. Imposes More Anti-dumping Duties on Canadian Newsprint - Toronto Star

An editor looks back: Equal access to the lunch counter in Greensboro - Poynter

Charleston Newspapers workers receive employment applications - Metro News

Newspapers are Getting More Creative with Getting People to Pay for News - EP

Can the Denver Post Survive Its Hedge-Fund Owners? - Westword - SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Denver Post newsroom slashed as hedge fund continues eviscerating Digital First - News Matters

Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere

Thankfully we have many Filipino foods nearby as my wife is homesick

The death of the local newspaper? - BBC

Fake News is Not the Real Problem - TechCrunch

A West Virginia newspaper is in bankruptcy - WaPo

Norpac draws publishing industry ire - The Columbian

Newsonomics: Vulture Alden Circles Boston - Ken Doctor

How Technology is Designed to Bring Out the Worst in Us - Vox

How Google replaced the Facebook decline for publishers - Poynter

How ProPublica Became Big Tech’s Scariest Watchdog - Fast Company

In Colorado, newspapers fight to keep publishing public notices - The Colorado Independent

Publishers of Anchorage Daily News will buy 3 Morris publications - Alaska Dispatch News

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

Robert is one of the many homeless living day to day in the shadows of La Verne. After many weeks of trying to give him food he finally gained enough trust to meet me several weeks ago.

Welcome to Our New Local Media Hellscape - Splinter News

Tronc to funnel all production through Chicago - Robert Feder

Forbes Will Pay All of Its Contributors, but Purge the Worst - WSJ

New York Times Employees Are Pissed About Bari Weiss - Huffpost

Washington Post is becoming what the LAT used to be - LAObserved

The American Media Landscape is Being Reshaped by Billionaires - CJR

For one-time NPR and NYT digital chief, a new adventure: WordPress - Poynter

No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong - WaPo

Publishers Continue to Explore Next-Gen Advertising to Support Digital Ventures - EP

Small town New Hampshire library takes over newspaper to keep it in production - 25 News

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

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

New York New York hotel and casino Las Vegas, Nevada

The year in pictures 2017 - NY Times

Saving the Free Press From Private Equity - Prospect

The Daily Californian needs your help! - Go Fund Me

The 10 best journalism movies - The Washington Post

Power outage hits the Register in Anaheim - OC Register

What 'The Post' gets right about 1970s newsrooms - LA Times

Worst headlines bloopers of 2017: The best of Lower Case - CJR

Michael Ferro Isn’t Worried that Morale is in the tank - Chicago Magazine

An eye opening conversation with The NY TIMES’ Dean Baquet - Medium

Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook - The Wall Street Journal

Monday Morning in the Blogosphere

Los Angeles Times Guild

Pacific News Service, RIP - LAObserved

Vox Media workers' union move, explained - Poynter

The Newspaper Revolution has begun - Columbus Post

What the blockbuster sale of Time Inc. means - Poynter

The Chicago Reader is in no danger of folding - Robert Feder

A great newspaper makes you late for work - Los Angeles Times

Zimbabwe’s biggest newspaper can print exactly what it wants - WaPo

Pacific News Service closes, but lessons continue - San Francisco Chronicle

Indian Newspapers Run Blank Pages to Protest Journalist Killing - The Guardian

Gearing for a bull run? Tronc Inc (TRNC) Moves 7.19% For Week - Stock Daily Review

Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere

The Pivot From Advertising - Slate

Value your constitutional rights? Thank a journalist - CNN

The journalist I most want to thank - The Washington Post

Were You a Victim of Russian Propaganda? - The New York Times

Weeks of preparation go in to Turkey Day newspaper - Sun Journal

Getting the Most Out of Life: 10 Questions for Thanksgiving - Poynter

tronc Inc. (TRNC) Breaks into New 52-Week High on November 22 - Equities

After 28 years on the job, Strong woman to deliver last newspaper - Sun Journal

The Times is “torn” about whether Glenn Thrush should lose his job - Vanity Fair

How MTV, The Telegraph and Evening Standard are Using Amazon Echo Show - DigiDay