Thursday night GOOD Magazine had a launch party for its newest issue. On Friday it laid off most of its editorial staff, according to multiple sources. At least some of the layoffs occurred at the ma...
Freedom Communications announced today that it is selling its North Carolina and Florida newspapers to Halifax Media. Halifax bought 16 newspapers from The New York Times Co. earlier this year, inclu...
New Orleans Times-Picayune staffers are expected to start hearing next week how their jobs will change — if they have jobs — once the newspaper shifts to printing only three days a week w...
NolaVie New Orleans musician Evan Christopher wrote an open letter to Warren Buffett last week, and the billionaire newspaper owner has responded: Naturally I’ve been following the Times-Pic si...
Because so many people today disregard what Mrs. Donovan taught them in the fourth grade, the AP Stylebook has thrown in the towel against the use of “hopefully” as a sentence adverb to m...
A memo from Senior Editor Peter Perl lays out the initiative, which could conceivably allow the paper to hear back about its journalism. As most of you know, we do a brief critique of the web site an...
Google News founder Krishna Bharat describes innovation as collaboration: “It used to be that you could focus on journalism because the technology around you was stable. You could hone your cra...
During today’s Poynter TEDx event, we’re hearing from a variety of thought leaders in journalism and social media. We’ll live blog all of the sessions, which focus on three main top...
College Media Matters | Business Insider When University of Tampa journalism professor Dan Reimold criticized Business Insider financial blogger Joe Weisenthal, Henry Blodget responded that Reimold &...
Information Architects | Nieman Lab | Dan Zarrella This week’s bit of status quo under question is the pervasiveness of “tweet,” “like” and other social-sharing buttons....
GQ | The Atlantic | The Washington Post | The Huffington Post | Politico Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei’s Politico story, which sort of said Mitt Romney gets more negative coverage than President ...
Clay Shirky: Washington Post should emulate Homicide Watch D.C. “Homicide Watch provides far broader crime coverage than the Post, coverage of clear value to the community, and does so in a way...
VentureBeat New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg: Not a fan of Big Gulps, but he’s a certified newsprint aficionado. “I have not gone to read everything on the internet. I still read eight newspa...
Journalists criticized the Associated Press last fall for telling its staffers that they shouldn’t retweet information that expresses a personal opinion. Now, the AP Stylebook is offering that same a...
Pew Internet The number of Americans using Twitter has grown to 15 percent of Internet users, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That’s up only slightly fr...
Times-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss says reporting staff will be “at least comparable” after staff cuts (JimRomenesko.com)
Mike Daisey | KQED | The New York Times | AllThingsD Mike Daisey, back with more media criticism, casts a steely eye at AllThingsD’s D10 (or is that DX?) conference, currently teching it up in ...
Politico Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei’s look at media bias carefully lays out Republicans’ case that the press is unduly biased toward President Obama and against Mitt Romney: “The N...
Cleveland Scene | New York Post Advance Publications’ decision to cut staff and reduce printing to three days a week at its papers in New Orleans and Alabama has worried journalists at its othe...
Scribd | All Things D Venture capitalist Mary Meeker presented her annual analysis of Internet trends Wednesday at the D10 conference, and among the dozens of charts is this one showing the steep imb...
Politico Arnaud de Borchgrave, whose Washington Times column is on hiatus while he writes his memoirs and the paper examines his past columns for plagiarism, tells Politico’s Patrick Gavin his ...
Centre County government Reporters will be allowed to live-tweet and live-blog during the trial of former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on sexual abuse charges, according to a court order...
The 2012 edition of the AP Stylebook, which comes out today, features more than 270 updated and new entries. There’s a new broadcast chapter, an expanded social media chapter and several fashion-rela...
Charles Apple | Washington Post Perhaps some of the copy editors losing their newspaper jobs could find new employment with the presidential campaigns. The Romney campaign released a “With Mitt...
The White House | Poynter | The Economist | Krakow Post | Business Insider | The Washington Post | New York Observer Defenders of Polish integrity howled with outrage Tuesday after President Obama us...
The Chicago Tribune’s plans to charge readers for some of its online content, along with McClatchy’s announcement last week that it will expand its paywall testing to four more sites, are...
The Washington Post As The Washington Post’s Twitter account neared its millionth follower, social media editor Mark Luckie found a use for a template he’d had kicking around for a while:...
NPPA NPPA has announced the still photography winners of its Best of Photojournalism contest. The Virginian-Pilot’s Ross Taylor was named Photojournalist of the Year for large markets. Dave Wea...
In a briefing today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney revived the claim that the controversy over President Obama’s birthplace was driven by the media: “You’re talking about t...
TheOpEdProject The OpEd Project released a new study today saying that there have been “major improvements” in women’s op-ed writing throughout the past six years. But women’s...
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