“A community service program designed to bring together people looking for good jobs and employers looking for good people is being launched by Neighbor Newspapers Called Community Employ Ease, the campaign officially begins April 1 at all 12 of the company’s community newspapers in northeast Oklahoma.” An innovative approach to the current recession and another…
“With a doomsday clock ticking for newspapers as we know them, no one has more at stake than fourth-generation New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., who is scrambling to keep his family’s prized asset alive,” said the intro on a Vanity Fair piece about Sulzberger by Mark Bowden. “Some see him as a…
Instead of one publisher per newspaper, group publishers are now the norm. That might make sense for geographic regions in rural areas; however, Sun Media are now creating publisher positions for entire provinces. See link for details of a new configuration in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
“Three union editors at Sun Media’s Brantford Expositor were notified today they will be laid off as of May 1, says a TSF source.” It appears a regional pagination centre is being created.
The faltering of the Sun-Times Media Group has far-reaching implications for 83 smaller newspapers. The company owns community papers in the Metropolitan Chicago area and surrounding suburbs, as well as other papers through Illinois and Indiana. The implications are staggering for those communities.
“Nonprofit status would muffle or silence newspapers’ editorial voice and add in layers of regulatory control that we cannot begin to predict, going in.”
“As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-year history,” reported the New York Times. Said Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner, “I don’t believe in the end of journalism.” “I don’t believe….”…
Here’s a lede you’ll see only in alt-media: “Shane McConkey was one crazy motherfucker.”Will that kind of a lead consign the outlet that runs it (in this case, by the B.C. online magazine The Tyee) to always being alt-media? When is the use of obscenity appropriate?
“Academic jargon that obscures meaning must be replaced by crisp, understandable conclusions,” said an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by CMAJ section editor Noni MacDonald and André Picard…
Journalists who work online are worried the Internet is undermining journalism’s professional values, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism. A slight majority of respondents believed journalism is on the “wrong track,” with many citing declining journalistic standards as their main concern. However, the study notes, online journalists are more optimistic about the future than those who work in…