It’s an incredible thing: Hit the submit button, and after several hours of elaborate and costly printing and distribution, your content is before the reader! At about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, if you wanted a copy of the morning papers in the Tribune section of Media Pavilion 2 there were still plenty of choices. The reporters Read More
Jim Romenesko has posted a press release from the Chicago Tribune announcing the promotion of Jane Hirt to managing editor. Ms. Hirt had been the editor of RedEye, the Tribune‘s young, hip [sic] paper, not to be mistaken with Fox News’ young, hip [sic] late night show where bloggers are stars. (In Read More
Jim Romenesko posted the above photograph of a Sam Zell-themed cake served up by employees at the Tribune Company’s Hartford Courant. As Mr. Romenesko wrote, "A Courant staffer couldn’t resist poking Zell’s eyes out—on the cake, of course."
Mmmm. Revenge has never tasted so … bitter.
On Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson will be managing a conference call that, from the looks of it, won’t be much fun. They’ll be reporting The New York Times Company’s second-quarter earnings. Last time they did one of quarterly earnings calls, The Times reported big losses; there was Read More
150 reporters, editors and designers at The Los Angeles Times are packing their boxes and heading home for good this week, but out of the paper’s press department that’s not the big news at all!
Last night, John Conroy, one of their spokesmen, sent reporters an email about a new blog the newspaper’s Web site, Read More
This morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Carl Quintanilla interviewed Tribune owner Sam Zell about everything from the housing market to the elections to the Chicago Cubs. (This comes via Jim Romenesko.)
When the subject turned to the advertising market, Mr. Zell asked, "What ad market?" Mr. Quintanilla clarified that he meant newspaper advertisers, Read More
That’s what Richard Perez-Pena asks in this morning’s Times, and he hears a mixed response.
A former executive at Gannett, Allen Neuharth, says that Zell is just doing what he has to do. In order to prevent newspapers to go the way of the steel industry in the 1980s, preemptive steps have to Read More
Los Angeles Times foreign editor Marjorie Miller has quit the paper.
In the second sentence of the memo announcing the news, editor Russ Stanton tries to make clear that it has nothing to do with anything. “She requested such a move a year ago …” it begins.
So don’t worry, there’s no panic here! Read More
"What has become clear as we have gotten intimately familiar with the business is that the model for newspapers no longer works," said Sam Zell in a memo he just sent out to Tribune staffers.
So everything is getting trashed and reworked! There are going to be redesigned newspapers, redesigned Web sites, redesigned business structures. Read More
Rupert Murdoch was standing in a deep corner of the Rose Hall at about 7:30 p.m. last night to toast his fellow influencers: It was the Time 100 celebration, an event that drums up publicity for the magazine’s decreasingly influential list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The day before, Mr. Murdoch Read More
