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Friday, August 8, 2008
Hearst To Manage 3 MediaNews Dailies -- Buys 'Connecticut Post' Any doubt that the Hearst Co., was distancing itself from MediaNews Group can be put to rest, at least for now. Hearst decided to purchase the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport and seven weekly newspapers from MediaNews and is assuming the management of three Connecticut dailies operated by the Denver-based company- August 08, 2008 12:45 AM ET
GateHouse Media Posts $430 Million Q2 Loss -- Suspends Dividend One-time industry supernova GateHouse Media Inc. broke apart its business model Friday, suspending its rich dividend indefinitely, taking emergency action to stay within its loan covenants, and reporting a $429.7 million second-quarter loss that includes a big goodwill impairment charge to reflect its cratering stock price and falling cash flow. - August 08, 2008 9:55 AM ET
Be Careful What You Wish For: Is the U.S. Heading -- And Ready -- For a Long War in Afghanistan? Few voices in the mainstream media -- and even in the liberal blogosphere -- have tackled this subject, partly because of long arguing for shifting troops to this "good war" from the "bad war" in Iraq Now some commentators with impeccable pro-military credentials are starting to sound off.- August 07, 2008 9:45 PM ET
Alexandra Caldwell Named 'Clearwater Citizen' Editor Alexandra Caldwell has been named editor of the Clearwater (Fla.) Citizen. Caldwell joined Tampa Bay Newspapers as a general assignment reporter in March, and before that she was a reporter for the Villages Daily Sun.
Frank Levine Named 'Roswell Daily Record' M.E. Frank Levine has been named managing editor of the Roswell Daily Record. Previously, he was national editor of the Mexico City News.
Playing Through: What Newspapers Could Learn From Golf There are interesting parallels between the perfect storms roiling the newspaper industry and golfing. There's a big difference, too: Golf seems to have a vision for getting out of its fix. - by Mark Fitzgerald - August 07, 2008
63 Years Ago: Media Distortions Set Tone for Nuclear Age At this time of year it is always important to look back at how the original "first-strike" was explained to the press, distorted, and then became part of the decades-long narrative of how, in this view, nuclear weapons can be used -- and used again. - by Greg Mitchell - August 06, 2008
Darkness on the Edge of Town: 'Star-Ledger' Cuts Mean More Than Most The Ledger, as it is known to any Jerseyan (such as me), was different. It was the big fat and happy daily and circulated statewide. Now facing big buyouts and a possible sale, Tony Soprano's favorite newspaper is clearly vulnerable -- which means no paper is safe. - by Joe Strupp - August 01, 2008
Change is Now Wise cutbacks and broad innovation are the keys to climbing out of crisis -- but now, "everything's on the table."
Metrics Beyond Measure There are several methods by which traffic and other Web site data is measured. Which of them, if any, should be the benchmark?
Editors 'Relax the Rules' to Make Moves Editor/Vice President Frank Scandale at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., admits radical moves are unusual -- but his paper, like others, is forced to enter unchartered territory to survive and compete. "I think all of the rules have been severely relaxed just due to the economic realities," he says.
A Sign of Hope Moises Saman for The New York Times An Afghan boy from Helmand Province carries water back to his family's tent at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul. Hundreds of Afghan families fled the current fighting in the south of Afghanistan.
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