Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere

The new Los Angeles Times headquarters located in El Segundo, California

Help Lagniappe be a better newspaper - Lagniappe

The WSJ is adding three dozen jobs - Wall Street Journal

The Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust - Columbia Journalism Review

Courageous journalism recognised by haul of awards - Editors Weblog

Digital darling BuzzFeed stages newspaper stunt - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Good News: These Newspapers Added a Print Section on Good News - Poynter

Post-Dispatch Buyouts Claim More Senior Reporters, Editors - River Front Times

Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists - NBC San Diego

Why You Should Hire an Editor to Review Your Website Copy - Business 2 Community

Morgan Jones is selling more than newspapers, he's making his own soap - Street Sense Media

Sunday Morning in the Blogosphere

Newspaper boys selling their wares

Newsonomics: Is Tronc due for a crash? - Ken Doctor

HD Media acquires Charleston Newspapers - Williamson Daily News

East Bay Times Reporters Rally Against Newspaper's Owner - Hoodline

Some good , some bad ; but you can’t stop small newspapers - Imphal Times

Advocates say tight budget leading to open-press threats - News and Observer

After 58 years, my parents ditched their daily print newspaper for iPads - Geek Wire

Startups, Deals, Parties And Pals: Will News Exec Levinsohn Repeat The Past? - NPR

Ad-Tech Firms Blacklist Newsweek Sites, Alleging Website-Traffic Manipulation - WSJ

A newspaper’s secret is at the heart of a police beating that has gone nationwide - Poynter

Newsweek Secret Tape: We Gotta Turn the Business Around or We’re Dead - Daily Beast

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

Friday Morning in the Blogosphere

The day I quit journalism - Quartz

What every newsroom can do to fight online misinformation - Poynter

F.C.C. Opens Door to More Consolidation in TV Business - NY Times

Chairman Steps Down As NPR Grapples With Harassment Crisis - NPR

FCC rolls back ownership regulations for big media companies - Poynter

BuzzFeed Set to Miss Revenue Target, Signaling Turbulence in Media - WSJ

Axios Raises $20 Million to Fund Newsroom Expansion - Wall Street Journal

Trust Project launches indicators to promote quality and reliability - Editors Weblog

Rollins College has officially terminated its print subscription of The NY Times - The Sandspur

For 54 years McCloskey hung on to newspapers he saved the day JFK died - Altamont Enterprise

Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere

With temperatures in the triple digits yesterday 

we still managed to distribute food to people in need  

The value of a newspaper - Buffalo Bulletin

Newspapers still top choice for news - Jamestown Sun

Jeff Bezos talks about the future of newspapers - Poynter

Folsom – a community newspaper's kind of place - Folsom Telegraph

Labor Unions Make Play To Buy Chicago Sun Times - The Daily Caller

Media Startups Try a Lower-Cost Model: Unpaid Student Writers - WSJ

How The Times of London grew its registered users to 1.2 million - DigiDay

An unlikely big player in digital media: unions - Columbia Journalism Review

By Ignoring Archives, News Organizations Put Much at Risk, Miss Rewards - EP

With an eye on the future, Globe returns to downtown Boston - The Boston Globe

You Are What You Read - Newspaper Humor

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statist shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country – if they could find the time – and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country … or that anyone is running it; but, if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are Handicapped, minority, feminist, dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided, of course, that they are not Republicans.

Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere

Our youngest volunteer donning a mask to filter out the terrible odors of Skid Row

The Next Frontier for Forbes - Jeff Jarvis

Express Newspapers to cut 200 posts - The Guardian

Gannett earnings up 84%, beat analysts' estimates - USA Today

Mobile's Ad Share Is Passing Newspapers - Wall Street Journal

Tribune Newspapers, To Begin Trading Aug. 4 - Hartford Courant

2014 will be another tough year for newspaper advertising - Poynter

Beyond the Paywall: Future Valuation of News - Editor and Publisher

The technology that will stimulate journalism's  future is now here - NAA

Newspapers begin to challenge broadcasters in video storytelling - Editors Weblog

LA Times Books reporter finds colleague's ‘literary prowess’ comment depressing - Romenesko

Friday Afternoon in the Blogosphere

Print will last a while: Murdoch - The Australian

Inside The New Yorker’s digital strategy - DigiDay

New Newspaper Numbers; New Opportunities - ClickZ

Tribune Publishing to take on $325 million in debt - Chicago Tribune

New York Times Hit With Incredibly Weird Lawsuit - Huffington Post

David Butler, 63, Will Now Oversee 75 Daily Newspapers - Mediabistro

Tribune CEO Won't Seek Re-Election to Yahoo's Board - Wall Street Journal

Freedom of Russian press under scrutiny following Ukraine crisis - The Guardian

LA Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein' response to Congressman Waxman - LA Times

Congressman Waxman calls on LA Times' owner to change newspaper spin-off plans - SCPR

Sunday Afternoon in the Blogosphere

Taken at the shuttered Los Angeles Times Chatsworth Production 

Facility sometime in the 1980's.

The Newspaper's last supper - Khaleej Times

Long Beach Register debuts Monday - OC Register

Groundbreaking Newsprint Technology Introduced - PR WEB

Despite odds, Long Beach becomes 2 newspaper town - SCPR

The future of newspapers is uncertain - Wisconsin State Journal

Scooping up newspapers left and right - The Daily News Online

New metric shows huge swings in newspaper audiences - Ad News

It's no secret that the newspaper industry is declining - Seeking Alpha

Challenges for newspapers? Sure, but that's nothing new - The Town Talk

Start the Presses! It's How You Sell Newspapers - The Wall Street Journal

David Hiller on a Greater Web Presence

With all the ado this past weekend over the union election at the Los Angeles Times I fell behind with my regular blogs that I read daily, for news about the newspaper and messages from the publisher. Mr. Hiller comments about a Tim Rutten's column in the Saturday edition of the Times regarding the Wall Street Journal's mixing of old media with new. The memo from Mr. Hiller was sent to all employees, with the exception of the majority of Pressroom employees.

To: All Times Employees Folks,

By now, I hope you have all taken the time to read Tim Rutten's column in Saturday's edition, and also hope you have been able to spend some time with the re-designed Wall Street Journal that was the subject of Tim's column, "Updated Journal Writes its Future."

Tim's piece does a good job of framing the the fundamental changes all news organizations like ours need to make as they "move forward toward a future in which they simultaneously connect with the readers online and in print.

"He says, and I agree, that we need to have a "simultaneous and complementary stance in both venues." This means most critically, being focused on how, where and when people want and get their news and information.

Recognizing each medium has unique strengths, we have to use each differently to best meet those reader/user needs. For us, this means breaking news, freshened all the time, coupled with data-driven personal utility on the web; while we engage a different focus of unique story-telling, analysis, and context in our print editions - with both relentlessly focused on what people can't get anywhere else. It is very clear to me this is the way we need to go, and is the way pointed forward by all of our research and the work coming out our Spring Street project, about which you will be hearing more. Fundamental change like this will take the resources and focus of our entire company.

And I agree with Tim that these changes "suggest how strong a role there is to be played by newspapers willing to accept the challenge of re-calibrating" what they do. In this, we will be a leader. Our success depends on it.

David

Source: LA Biz Observed