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By: Shawn Moynihan “I jump off the boat into the thickest, reddest patch of oil I’ve ever seen,” Associated Press video journalist Rich Matthews wrote of his plunge into the murky, oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. “I open my eyes and …
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By: Shawn Moynihan In late April, when the group led by former Philadelphia Newspapers CEO Brian Tierney lost in a bankruptcy auction to the senior creditors of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, the new owners called on Greg …
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By: Shawn Moynihan When Publish2 announced in late May its goal to help newspapers save money by using its content-sharing platform instead of paying for Associated Press content, a spate of dramatic, David-and-Goliath headlines followed. But as …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Carll Tucker used to publish community newspapers. He owned and ran the Trader Publications newspapers in New York’s Hudson Valley from 1981 until selling to Gannett in 1992. Now he’s back in the community news …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI)Recent closing price: $14.52 52-week trading range: $3.10 (July 10, 2009) to $19.69 (April 16, 2010) 52-week change in value: 232% S&P 500 in same period: 11.9% THE GOOD OLD …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Haiti by all accounts is only slowly rebuilding from January’s devastating earthquake, the dilatory progress a legacy of the island’s deep poverty and congenitally dysfunctional government. As Damien Cave reported in …
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By: Rob Tornoe Dan Piraro, the artist behind the wickedly skewed comic panel Bizarro, won this year’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor a cartoonist can receive. Piraro talks about drawing, syndication and …
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By: Alan D. Mutter One of the biggest challenges for newspapers in the age of interactive media is proving that their advertising works. The San Diego Union-Tribune seems to have solved that problem in a small, but meaningful, way — and …
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By: Debra Gersh Hernandez Just like their newspaper customers, syndicate services face a changed world that offers unprecedented new opportunities — that are hampered by unprecedented economic challenges. New digital distribution channels …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Journal Register Co.’s Ben Franklin Project might strike some as stunt. But to CEO John Paton, the reason to make the chain’s 18 dailies to produce a newspaper using only digital tools available for free on the …
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By: E&P Staff Until recently, the modus operandi of the U.S. Postal Service was to swear up and down that no way did it favor direct mail over newspapers — c’mon, newspapers are our oldest customers! — while constantly …
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6/11/10
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By: Shawn Moynihan For Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kim Komenich, fighting crime is evidently all in a day’s work. A former photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Komenich — who won the 1987 Pulitzer for spot news photography …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Even as newspaper newsrooms shrank at unprecedented rates, jettisoning at least 13,500 journalists since 2007, The Newspaper Guild seems to be more active than even in the heydays of newspaper unions. The CWA unit in recent …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald A unique campaign that launches this summer to promote the First Amendment — and, not so coincidentally, its guarantee of a free press — proceeds from this insight: Americans love their First Amendment rights, …
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By: Shawn Moynihan These days, there are endless cases of strapped newspapers with downsized staffs, that are hurting for content. One New Jersey daily met this need by having an employee of one of its sports teams write stories about that team for …
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By: Shawn Moynihan Diversity in newsrooms is one of those issues that even in the best of times, often gets short shrift. But these are not the best of times, and recent findings by the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) provides a snapshot of …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald In August, ChicagoNow, a network of more than 300 local blogs created by the Chicago Tribune, expects to celebrate not just its first anniversary, but also its first profits. At a time when services like Patch abound, allowing …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Through the 1980s and 1990s, as organic circulation such as home delivery and single-copy sales sagged, many metro dailies responded by building up circ that was classified as “other paid circulation”: Bulk sales, …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald El Tiempo is by far Colombia’s biggest daily newspaper. Add in all Casa Editorial El Tiempo (CEET) properties — its downmarket tabloid daily Hoy, a financial news daily, six news, fashion and men’s magazines, …
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