Cynthia Cotts describes a teapot tempest at Newsday over a botched attempt to promote the paper’s foreign editor. The story doesn’t matter much to non-New Yorkers, but I’m linking to it because it’s so reassuring to see Newsday’s newsroom is…
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MS the pop-up killer
Mark Glaser says the Redmond Behemoth is about to get religion on killing popup ads. Microsoft is prepping a pop-up blocker in its next version of its dominant Internet Explorer browser, due out by next June, giving more readers than…
‘Lingerie Bowl’
Why don’t we call this what it really is: an open invitation for Osama to send his evil minions to America to blow up stuff: In the January “lingerie bowl,” two teams of models will play football in sports bras,…
Public education at work
Romenesko points to a Long Island high school whose bosses have taken a hard look at their kids’ low test scores and decided the thing to do was crack down on the school newspaper. If we want to get kids…
Farewell to a great American
Paul Simon, the former U.S. senator who started out as a crusading newspaper publisher, died today after heart surgery. He was 75.
A stopper
A Newsday column lamenting “floating celebrities” — people famous for being famous — emits the following: In this, Hilton is one of a laundry list of not-so-illustrious examples. Kato Kaelin and Jessica Hahn, Monica Lewinsky and Joey Buttafuoco, Darva Conger…
Coverage of TV is lame, he says
In addition to our multitude of sins on other fronts, it seems we don’t cover the TV business worth a damn, either. I guess what I’ve learned is that the media have reflexively searched for the easy answers to trends…
Gone tabbing
Papers in the UK are unleashing tabloid editions. No topless P.3 girls for the Times of London, alas, but there appears to be a trend afoot: The move by The Times and The Independent is slightly different from the approach…
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.
Perhaps the worst column ever written…
… in which a 40something white guy tries to talk like a rapper, making fools of himself, his paper, his editors and the people who brought him into this world. Heads up to the Testy Copy Editors for flagging this…