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more about #deathofprint more comments → raincoaster: Why enter? You'll just end up locked in a house with Rachel Marsden, and that NEVER ends well. more » Smitros: I may have to give this a shot. And if they don't pick me, it will just prove that WaPo doesn't care about semi-Hellenic armadillos. more » Perhaps Not: I'm sorry, $200 per column? Howard Kurtz blows his nose with $200 every time he turns on his computer. It's in his contract. more » Island of Misfit Toys: Paging Mr. Hippity... more » Unsolicited Advice: I feel enormous empathy for the underpaid sucker who's going to have to read four thousand uninformed, illiterate rants about health care. more » Rev. Paul T. Hipple: I could channel God for them, but I doubt seriously He would want His message soiled by delivery through the WaPo. Perhaps Fox News has a similar con... more » Pope John Peeps II: I'd enter one of my famous Thomas Friedman: Magical Retard fake columns, but his actual colums already blow mine away in terms of satire. more » Astigmatism: I'm so going to win this. I think stuff about things. more » Hamilton Nolan: $200 a column? Not an economics pundit, presumably. more » Swordfish: And Newsweek??? more » WackoJacko: Maybe they should change their name to Ivory. more » Baroness: I'm seeing a vast cross-promotional push sponsored by Admiral Televisions Inc. more » Monte Wooley: The freedom to destroy the press (and cash out in the process) belongs to the man who owns one. more » Nic Fit: In all fairness, those stock options are worth roughly the same amount as the paper they are printed on. more » TheUptightMidwesterner: Niche rag sez "SHOW ME THE MONEY!" more » -
#deathofprint
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 » -
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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 » -
#whoops
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 » -
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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 » -
#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 » -
#tardy
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 » -
#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 » -
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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?" -
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#puppies
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 » -
#history
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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
#forbes
The Other Memo Was Funnier
We heard about a sadly not fake memo Steve Forbes sent out this afternoon to everyone at Forbes who hasn't been laid off announcing unpaid furloughs and pay-cuts. [Updated: More details after the jump.] More » -
#rumormonger
Penthouse 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.
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#deathofprint
Newspapers are dead. Google and Sharon Stone's ex-husband killed them.
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#ebooks
Esquire Editor Admires the Kindle, or At Least the Hearst Replacement
Esquire editor David Granger loves the Amazon Kindle. Sort of. The e-book reader gives him hope that Internet-shortened attention spans will lengthen enough to spark a renaissance in books and magazines. He's utterly delusional. More » -
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The New York Times Battles a Googler for New Jersey
Why is the Gray Lady building websites for the obscure suburbs of South Orange, Maplewood, and Milburn? Perhaps because those are the exact same towns Google executive Tim Armstrong picked for Patch, his local-news startup. More » -
#mediacrack
Mourning Becomes Romenesko
The Rocky Mountain News has rolled the presses for the last time. Here's your Media Crack another-one-bites-the-dust edition: More » -
#ebooks
Hearst's E-Reader: The Last Stand of a Doomed Industry
Dear media companies: Please stop trying to innovate. You're lousy at it. Hearst's supposed "Kindle killer," an electronic reader for magazines, is just the latest in a series of debacles from the moribund print-media business. More » -
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Here's Hoping Google Does Kill the Newspapers
The news that Google is placing ads on Google News has sent a renewed wave of handwringing through the newspaper industry. How dare those Googlers make online news a profitable business! More »
