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more about #newspapers more comments → sweetpickles: Do magazines think people want to wait for their regurgitated content on a monthly basis again? No. They do not. Silly magazines. You're going to have... more » momof3wildkids: From the looks of the picture, Martha Stewart is in bed with something other than the State Dept. With that stick, it is no wonder she doesn't need a... more » MrInBetween: When the Big One hits L.A. or the next terrorist strike slams Manhattan, The Post will publish riveting "reaction stories" quoting the old dudes at th... more » SlickaNicka: I find it delightful that the Washington City Paper, the free paper with Savage Love and Stories of the Weird, broke the story. Ouch. more » atlasfugged: I'm probably wrong, but I blame Fred Hiatt for this. more » DennyCrane: Somehow this felt appropriate. more » bess marvin, girl detective: attempting to do more with less. david simon is in a bawlmoor bar somewhere cackling. more » JennaW: They aren't? Well, they used to be! Great work, Marcus Brauchli! In just one year you've turned the Washington Post into a local paper. Ben Bradlee mu... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Sadz. more » Mike Jahn: Another step in saving the New York Times. more » TheBusinessGuy: How sad it is that he utterly misses the point of the service local bureaus render: that they provide another take, another perspective, another voic... more » Meercat: One day - and perhaps soon - we as a nation will regret the loss of true journalists. Edward R. Murrow, we need you now. I wonder who will lead the ... more » Rozelle’s Bagman: I'll miss the meta stories about Gawker ripping them off. more » Helio: Oh, how quaint. My local paper will finally live up to the title. It's a shame i can't look at the editorial page (hell, the entire paper) without wan... more » Swordfish: It already closed most of the foreign buros last year. They just sent the NY correspondent to Beijing for a short stint, just in time for the Obama vi... more » -
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Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
In your cheery Wednesday media column: our nemesis Martha Stewart's magazine implicated in decoration-for-prestige scheme, iTunes for magazines is coming, your weekly layoff roundup, and the Search Engine Media Wars heat up. More » -
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Marcus Brauchli —
executive editor of the Washington Post explaining the newspaper's decision to close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, to the Washington Post. -
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Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
At the end of December, the Washington Post will close its bureaus in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. This is the biggest write-off of on-the-scene domestic news coverage by any major paper yet. More » -
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Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
In your trepidatious Tuesday media column: we hear the Time Inc. layoffs hit Fortune (and others?) today, BusinessWeek speaks robot language, Dave Eggers will not stop saving print, and a horrible massacre of journalists in the Philippines. More » -
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Carl Kasell Escapes NPR News Gig Alive
In your merciful Monday media column: Carl Kasell gets to sleep in now, more rumored AP layoffs, crazy "old media" types eschew pointless media beef, and Verlyn Klinkenborg defended like a doe, a deer, a female deer, shut up, Verlyn. More » -
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Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
Circulation rates going up! That's great! Print's dying and someone's succeeding! THANK GOD. Except, not. While circulations go up, fewer people are getting newspapers circulated to them. How? More » -
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The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
Newspapers are dying, which means there will never be any more investigative journalism and politicians will screw whomever they want. But it's OK, because "innovative" new "partnerships" like the Chicago News Cooperative are here to produce real journalism. More » -
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German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
In your ferocious Friday media column: Newspaper wars in Germany are of another breed, another high school paper censored for dumb reasons, more on the BusinessWeek layoffs, and George Stephanopoulos' fluff chops questioned. More » -
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Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
In your foreboding Thursday media column: Rumors of veterans departing their jobs far and wide, Anthony Kennedy's story weakens, newspapers and magazines lose huge money, and Jon Fine's media gig disappears. More » -
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Fox News Anchor Gets Real Job With The Onion
In your wistful Wednesday media column: Fox News anchor moves up in the world, layoffs loom at Time Inc. and BusinessWeek, people still say they read newspapers, and Pat Kiernan has a contest, for you. More » -
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Tattle-Tale Newspaper Costs Vulgar Commenter His Job
A St. Louis schools employee made a juvenile, vulgar joke in the comments section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, anonymously. Soon, he was out of a job because an offended newspaper editor hunted him down and called his bosses. More » -
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Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
Forrester Research has a new study out that Rupert Murdoch should probably download: Of 4,000 people polled, 80 percent will not pay for online newspapers or magazines, and the rest are divided on how they want to pay. More » -
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Documentary to Expose Twittering, Typing, Lunch Habits of NYT Media Reporters
The uniformly mustachioed Twitter addicts of the New York Times media desk are getting a documentary of their very own! Sounds pretty........interesting. Sorry, fell asleep there for a sec. More » -
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Moonie Newspaper Editor Shockingly Forced to Attend Moonie Wedding
In your well-regarded Tuesday media column: A Washington Times editor reaches his breaking point, the NY Daily News makes a bizarre investment, Lou Dobbs has a terrifying new career option, and magazines are now pointless. More » -
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Cops investigating union corruption raided the New York Times' printing plant this morning [NYT].
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Rupert Murdoch: David Paterson Is a Hapless Blind Illiterate
At the Wall Street Journal CEO Council yesterday, someone asked Rupert Murdoch why our political discourse is so angry and infantile. Murdoch's answer was, "Because David Paterson is blind and can't read braille." (The correct answer is "Rupert Murdoch.") More » -
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Newspaper Box Enlivened One Last Time
Artist Jason Eppink turns empty newspaper boxes into flashing little disco parties. "When the last vestiges of a collapsed empire litter the landscape, there's only one thing to do: throw a bumpin' party and dance on the ruins." [BoingBoing] -
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Ken Auletta Is Not Funny
In our meritorious Monday media column: Judd Apatow questions Ken Auletta's wit, a reporter tries to pretend he is not a vicious murderer, Americans are cheap bastards when it comes to news, and all you need to know about Playboy. More » -
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How to Turn a Correction into an Exclusive
New York Post, November 13: "Lou Dobbs walked away from more than $9 million when he quit CNN." And today, the Post has a brand new "EXCLUSIVE". More » -
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David Rohde: There Are More Kidnapped Journalists Still in Pakistan
David Rohde, the New York Times reporter who spent seven months in Taliban captivity, spoke out publicly for the first time last night at an International Center for Journalists Awards Ceremony and said other kidnapped reporters remain in Pakistan. More »
