Category: Newspaper news

Top 20 under 40

Presstime magazine lauds “young” newspaper people of accomplishment. Just what the hard-chargers of our industry need: One more reason to lament not getting a raise this year.

Ouch

Romenesko had this yesterday: Dancer we said was dead actually is alive. Now get this: The obituary was based on one in The Daily Telegraph of London on Nov. 29. The Times was unable to confirm her death independently and,…

Put the toaster away

American Journalism Review reports on the latest readership research about what gets people to read the paper: Perhaps the most noticeable single theme is optimism. While full of sobering data and often critical of newspapers, the studies are strikingly upbeat.…

Heads up, Knight Ridder folks

Registration is coming to your Web sites, so get yourself mentally prepared for a fresh round of aggravation.

A flash of joy at the Sun-Times

Steve Rhodes says they were singing “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” around the newsroom at the Chicago Sun-Times, with the publisher ousted and Conrad Black defanged… But the newsroom is also tinged with trepidation. For one thing, though Black…

Publishing industry humor

Satirical (I suppose) look at candidates to be the next editor of the New York Times book section. I was going to post an excerpt but none of them are remotely funny.