“George Le Masurier, who has been publisher of two McClatchy Co. weeklies in Washington state, was named president and publisher of The Olympian in Olympia, Wash. He replaces John Winn Miller, who resigned in January.”
Since 1871, The Pickens Sentinel, in South Carolina, has served it community and took a moment to remind its readers how important the newspaper is the to community. “With the nation plunging into recession and with the never-ending stream of bad economic news, there’s much focus on the decline of newspaper circulation in most of…
“Community newspapers were impacted by the challenging economy but in a much smaller way than the industry in general, according to fourth quarter 2008 financial data collected by the trade associations Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) and National Newspaper Association (NNA).”
“ Honolulu Star-Bulletin owner David Black has become part owner of the San Diego Union-Tribune. The purchase, by Beverly Hills private-equity firm Platinum Equity, was announced today. The price was undisclosed and Black was described as part of the team. La Jolla-based Copley Press Inc. had put the paper on the market in July and…
Media outlets may be slashing jobs, reducing pages and shrinking expectations, but not all the news is bad at Canadian media companies, says Kelly Toughill. A glance through year-end reports finds some surprising reasons for optimism.
Well, make that three photos. But the top one gets my vote. From the Silicon Alley Insider, photos by Noah Berger of AP.
CTVglobemedia cut jobs at The Globe and Mail, shut down morning news shows and threatened to abandon whole stations after earning an operating profit of 9.7 per cent in 2008.
B.C. community newspaper publisher David Black has enough faith in newspapers that he’s involved himself in bigger American leagues….
Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage…”
“The Daily Me” means going online as our own editor/gatekeeper, to select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. So what’s the problem?