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Click here to read The <em>Washington Post</em> Launches <em>America's Next Top Pundit</em>

The Washington Post Launches America's Next Top Pundit

Internet blogs are killing newspapers and stealing from them and full of blowhards who don't know what they're talking about, so where does the Washington Post look for it's next "great pundit"? The internet. More »

09/29/09

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By John Cook

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Click here to read <em>Ebony</em> Searches for a Savior

Ebony Searches for a Savior

Newsweek's Johnnie L. Roberts reports that Ebony, which was founded with a $500 loan in 1942, is in "big, big trouble" and shopping itself to Time Warner and Viacom. More »

09/25/09

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By John Cook

#whoops

Click here to read <em>New York Times</em> Execs Are Overpaid Even By Their Own Standards

New York Times Execs Are Overpaid Even By Their Own Standards

The New York Times, which six months ago forced staffers to take a 5% paycut, has been overpaying its publisher and CEO for nearly two years in violation of its own compensation rules. We're supposed to bail these people out? More »

09/21/09

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By John Cook

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Variety to Lead Old Media Back to Pay Wall Ghetto

Variety, the Hollywood trade newspaper with its only secret language based on words like "ankle" and "boffo" into its copy, has confirmed that it plans to put most or all of its web site behind a paywall. More »

09/18/09

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By John Cook

#investigativejournalism

The '$400,000' Hurricane Katrina Story: Expensive, Epic

The NYT Magazine's cover story about a euthanizing, beleaguered hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans dropped today. It's estimated to have cost around $400,000. What kind of reporting does that buy? The expensive, endangered type. More »

08/30/09

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By Foster Kamer

#tardy

Click here to read <i>Rolling Stone</i> Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com

Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com

It must pain Jann Wenner to see his other properties start succeeding where flagship Rolling Stone squandered possibilities and descended into irrelevancy: online. Now that US Weekly's site has heat, Wenner's finally starting to line up RS's strategy of "whatever." More »

08/30/09

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By Foster Kamer

#mastheadconfessional

The Plight of Print's Lucky Ones

Lest they offend their many laid off friends, anyone who's kept their job in print media will tell you they're one of "the lucky ones." But privately, survivors talk of the malaise sweeping medialand. This is one of them. More »

08/27/09

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If You're Looking to Spend Your Evening Reading about Why Newspapers Are Dying

Explaining why newspapers (but not journalism) are dying, Bill Wyman doesn't romanticize them: "So, sure, an average newspaper did print some serious journalism. But is that most of what they did, or even anything more than a tiny part?"

08/13/09

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By Gabriel Snyder

#puppies

Click here to read <em>New York Times</em> Editor Comes Up with New Column Idea after Lunch with Book Agent

New York Times Editor Comes Up with New Column Idea after Lunch with Book Agent

Jill Abramson, New York Times managing editor for news, has a new column: "This is the first article in a weekly series about the challenges and satisfactions of raising a puppy through its first year of life." More »

07/20/09

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By Gabriel Snyder

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When We Walked on the Moon, and When Newspapers Mattered

Forty years ago today, some guys landed on the moon and walked around, and there were thousands of money-making newspapers on hand to chronicle it. They used words like "spacemen" and drew nifty mod-looking illustrations. Here's a front-page gallery. More »

07/20/09

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By John Cook

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Click here to read Did David Blum Help Gut a <em>Third</em> New York City Weekly?

Did David Blum Help Gut a Third New York City Weekly?

Was former Village Voice and New York Press editor David Blum—whose tour through New York's dying weeklies has, fairly or unfairly, been regarded as a kiss of death—behind the bright idea of firing 10 New York Observer staffers? More »

06/29/09

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Click here to read Will David Geffen Gay Up the <em>New York Times</em>?

Will David Geffen Gay Up the New York Times?

Hello, Pink Lady! David Geffen, the wealthy friend of Dorothy, wants to buy the New York Times. Fantastic news for the paper's gay mafia. More »

05/11/09

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By Owen Thomas

#forbes

The Other Memo Was Funnier

04/01/09

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Penthouse Magazine Closing? CEO Says No, COO Says Yes

Click here to read <em>Penthouse</em> Magazine Closing? CEO Says No, COO Says Yes

Internet porn has devastated old-fashioned smut rags. We now hear a top executive at FriendFinder Networks, the publisher of Penthouse, wants to close the money-losing magazine down. But his boss denies it. More »

03/02/09

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By Owen Thomas

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