Category: Newspaper news

When a newspaper shutdown is a good thing

More than 600 Chinese party organs are biting the dust, editorsweblog reports. You have to love the logic of a command economy: These rags are being shuttered to save the government money and to relieve the peasants in the provinces…

Those old, old newspapers

Maud links to a story saying author Nicholson Baker has penned an art book devoted to the old New York World. She also links to the American Newspaper Repository, which despite the unappetizing title has some very tasty examples of…

Talking demographics

Ross Fadner at MediaDaily News reports on a study of the reading patterns and technology usage by people various racial categories. Surprisingly, the results show that high tech device ownership, while highly correlated with income, does not alone explain users…

And the 25 grand goes to…

The Michael Kelly Award will recognize “a reporter or editor whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly’s own career: the fearless expression and pursuit of truth.” How long till the blogosphere gets its panties in a knot because…

How they spent their Sunday

Mark Glaser at Online Journalism Review writes about how newspapers reacted to the Saddam story breaking at the worst time possible. Mainly it was about getting the sleep out of their eyes. One editor describes how the Web changes his…

Careful about those Lolitas

I did a Google news search on “newspaper editor” and found this juicy story from Portales, New Mexico: CANNON AIR FORCE BASE ? The editor of the Cannon Air Force Base newspaper will spend nine months in military prison, be…

Robert Bartley dead

The cheerleader of Reaganomics succumbs to cancer. I don’t speak ill of the dead so let’s leave it at that.

A tidy newsroom dustup

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…

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…