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12/11/09
John Mancini out as editor after five years, and onetime Daily News chief and current Newsday ME/internet mistress of the dark Debby Krenek takes over.
If the fantastic job she's done with Newsday's new web site is any indication, chalk this up as another shrewd management move by the Dolans and Cablevision. [www.editorandpublisher.com]
#tips #newsday #cablevision [gawker.com]
11/02/09
But I mean why does the NYT have to run like a standard site? Radically change it up, maybe more like fastflip, maybe not. But something unique, with extremely relevant ads. It could work
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11/02/09
He should know. He's the Captain Smith of this Titanic. #newspapers
11/02/09
If "crafty people" get news for free, then you will eventually just get crappy news. There isn't quality "free" reporting like, say, Watergate or even the recent Times Magazine on the hospital triage during Katrina.
My friends in magazine and newspapers have lost a LOT, and it is because I and so many others just want it free.
It was a huge error in judgement for newspapers to value "eyeballs" over "payment". The online ad thing doesn't pay for a huge newsroom. They might as well try pay firewalls and screw the "get the eyeballs and the ads will come and pay for most everything" failed methodology.
If you own a business, you'll take a paying, small audience over large group of freeloaders any day. #newspapers
11/02/09
Her reply was quite clever, but you know writers.
"No." #newspapers
11/02/09
And now, because you and I and others have had a free ride, the old media doesn't have the money to do what needs to be done. Foreign bureaus are closing, local staffs are cut, and major cities are threatened with not having a newspaper at all, let alone more than one so there can be different voices. If there is a no money to do what needs to be done journalistically, and no experienced people left to do it, the bad guys win. And that means the rest of lose. #newspapers
11/02/09
With the options available to news readers/viewers, I'd say, don't let the door smack you in the ass on your way out.
It isn't important enough for me when I have a bazillion other outlets for news that doesn't cost me a dime.
I suffer from news-overload most days, especially the day that damn ballon went aloft. #newspapers
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11/02/09
Newspapers have fought this for several decades, but have failed to invent an action plan to sustain survivability in a fast-changing, world. I guess you could throw magazines in there, too. Conde Nast, Forbes, etc., are puking all over themselves.
As the taste for news diversified, so did people's tastes. NYT is stodgy; stuck in an old-money, old-tradition journalism mode, not at all hip to youngsters or young adults who are seeking new modes of communication like blogging, podcasts, texting, etc. (can't wait to see where it goes in 10-20 years or so).
Or, they just tune out to every day affairs and quite frankly, don't care about any thing else. It stuns me how little they know of current affairs. #newspapers
11/02/09
11/02/09
I get that Gawker is home of snark or whatever but seriously all the cheering around here every time a bunch of writers and editors get fired is fucking gross. I spent last year covering the election--now almost everyone I worked with is out of a job. A friend who is a war reporter hasn't been able to get anyone to send him on a story in six months. We aren't "puking all over ourselves." We're looking for work, as our our editors, some of whom (gasp) were decent people who worked for Conde Nast.
Change is hard for any industry--in fact I'd be hard-pressed to think of any who handle it well. Certainly Detroit didn't deal with the rise of foreign production well. Television screwed itself with an over-reliance on reality programming.
I'm sure that had one of these sage commenting analysts been involved, none of these meltdowns would have occurred. #newspapers
11/02/09
"I get that Gawker is home of snark or whatever but seriously all the cheering around here every time a bunch of writers and editors get fired is fucking gross."
-I agree. I don't wish for anyone to lose their job, never have. I am one of those surplused victims. I don't feel compelled to support the NYT just to keep the doors open. I love the paper, but don't live there and can't relate to a majority of the content.
"We aren't "puking all over ourselves."
-Referencing the cuts in staff across the board, not showing extra special disdain for publishing. It's sad, period. It's sick that it is happening, I never dreamed of this. You took my statement the wrong way.
"I'm sure that had one of these sage commenting analysts been involved, none of these meltdowns would have occurred."
-That's just a cheap shot at the posters and the open discussion. You know nothing about us anymore that we do about you. How do you know we aren't working behind the scenes to employ those affected?
Extra-special disdain noted. #newspapers
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11/02/09
He was working behind a firewall of twenty dollars from the airport to the hotel. #newspapers
11/02/09
You know what would be awesome? Getting into a cab and seeing that The Moustache of Understanding was driving it. #newspapers
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10/22/09
10/22/09
It's a shadow of what it once was but still better than nothing and I want it to survive. That's part of what makes the lame, unapproachable web site so disappointing, for what it says about management's judgment and level of talent and about the paper's financial future. #theinternet
10/22/09
10/22/09
However, it's free for Optimum clients, so there's that.
Frankly, this rag has such a conservatard slant that it's like The Post with listings for pumpkin farms and tag sales. #theinternet
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10/01/09
My money is on the fact that they reported what a couple sources who worked on the show told the publication and when Dolan's team wouldn't answer (and still won't for Gawker) questions about how profitable the show is or if ticket sales are down it made them believe this should be a news item. There is not a tone of defamation in the Cityfile story. Dolan just had more money to force Cityfile and Buhl to fold when he didn't like how the public responded to the news that he was 'thinking about' shutting down the Christmas Spectacular show. I would have loved to seen the outcome if this abuse-of-the-press suit actually went to court.
10/02/09
Bottom line: he's got nothing better to do.