27 June 2020

Facebook Boycott: Unilever and Verizon Join Pledge to Pull Ads - The New York Times

Editing is what editors are for and they cost bottom line money. In FB waters, the two don't mix.

22 June 2020

Obituaries - The Washington Post

No way to follow any births in the Washington Post? Just deaths. What a commentary on the future!

21 June 2020

20 June 2020

Déconfinement : la presse, victime du coronavirus

I think this will just get worse for a long time to come and then we will have lost such pillars of our past. Where are the new pillars?

07 June 2020

James Bennet Resigns as New York Times Opinion Editor - The New York Times

I hope they can get it right.

Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms - The New York Times

How unfortunate from every perspective.

Top Editor of Philadelphia Inquirer Resigns After ‘Buildings Matter’ Headline - The New York Times

I see only one African-American face in the photo. Philadelphia's African-American population is about 40%.

04 June 2020

New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards - The New York Times

Reinforces why we need newspapers who make rational and reasonable judgments about what to publish. It is what editing is all asbout. Long live editing!

New York Times staffers denounce newspaper for Tom Cotton editorial urging military incursion into U.S. cities - The Washington Post

This is wrong, but the commentary is wonderful.

31 May 2020

Hear, hear! The explosion in audio books - CBS News

Where do newspapers fit? Podcasts?

29 May 2020

News Corp to Stop Printing More Than 100 Australian Newspapers - WSJ

They are so stupid. They have not figured out how to do both and there is a solution.

24 May 2020

The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names - The New York Times

If The New York Times had not done this, who would?

09 May 2020

No News Is Bad News | On the Media | WNYC Studios

What a depressing episode. God help us all, or whatever Bob GARFIELD said on the program.

05 May 2020

29 April 2020

Without Coronavirus Aid, Local Newspapers Could Fold - WSJ

Hard to imagine a happy ending.

27 April 2020

I used to run White House press briefings. Here's how journalists should handle Trump (opinion) - CNN

Magnificent advice. I sure hope it does not land on deaf ears!

10 April 2020

02 April 2020

Carriers

Nice piece on NBC News 29 March 2020 - carrier offering to shop for customers who cannot get out. Very nice!

12 March 2020

Where Westchester Teens Get Their Coronavirus News - The New York Times

I guess we all need to understand this a lot better.

03 March 2020

‘Imagine This Were Your Sister,’ Ronan Farrow Tells Woody Allen’s Publisher - The New York Times

Each side in this made a decision, supportable and or objectionable. No winners. No losers.

26 February 2020

The Newseum still exists. One of its next exhibits is in a hotel suite. - The Washington Post

Articles about the Newseum are almost too sad to even open.

15 February 2020

08 February 2020

Maybe Information Actually Doesn’t Want to Be Free - The New York Times

I hope this is as hopeful for the future as it seems. But how do we value information at a lower price tag and make people willing to pay for it again? Like the proverbial nickel paper. Or even penny paper.

28 January 2020

Worried Reporters Make a Plea: Please Buy Our Paper - The New York Times

I don't have the stomach to read much more of this.

25 January 2020

Pompeo Says NPR's Kelly Lied To Him Twice But Doesn't Deny Lashing Out : NPR

Secretary ASS. Let's see, did I spell that correctly?

24 January 2020

Reporter says Mike Pompeo cursed and demanded she find Ukraine on a map after interview - CNNPolitics

She does not work for a newspaper, but thank goodness she is there and is who she is!

Jim Lehrer, understated PBS news anchor and presidential debate moderator, dies at 85 - The Washington Post

They don't make 'em like that anymore.

22 January 2020

17 January 2020

Justice Dept. Investigating Years-Old Leaks and Appears Focused on Comey - The New York Times

I wonder how this will touch the news organizations receiving the leaks?

03 January 2020

Luxury Developers Turn the Page on Old Newspaper Headquarters - WSJ

At least it is not reduced to the dust of ages, or of whatever.

27 November 2019

Chris interviews one of his ‘heroes’: Fmr. Hearst CEO Frank Bennack

I bet there is a whole story to why he does not have his own entry in Wikipedia. Probably involves money and power.

18 November 2019

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26 October 2019

23 October 2019

22 October 2019

Mimicking Local News, a Network of Michigan Websites Pushes Politics - The New York Times

Our system of freedom of expression is sick. How we treat her will spell our futures.

21 October 2019

08 October 2019

Dying Gasp of One Local Newspaper - The New York Times

I think I added this earlier?

Is Local News Dying?

Might be really interesting.

25 September 2019

04 September 2019

13 August 2019

A Times Editor Is Demoted as the Paper Discusses Its Coverage of Race - The New York Times

Frankly, far too touchy. Too many important things to do without doing more than giving whatever critique is warrranted here and moving on.....

07 August 2019

North Carolina Newspapers Form Media Management Company – Editor & Publisher

Not sure I see the long-term value proposition.

27 July 2019

5 facts about the state of the news media in 2018 | Pew Research Center

This stuff is too discouraging to read regularly!

10 July 2019

08 July 2019

05 July 2019

Longtime Newspaper To Shut Down In Youngstown, Ohio : NPR

I still don't believe that a creative solution is out of reach. The shame comes in not thinking hard enough in different ways about values, prinicipals, etc.

Tears, Laughter and Ideas for a Post-Vindicator Future - Business Journal Daily

I see nothing creative here.

Are Local Papers Beyond Saving? A Test in Ohio - WSJ

What a bummer.

04 May 2019

Why The Times Is Taking Down Its Paywall for 3 Days - The New York Times

I don't get it. Not well explained at all.

20 January 2019