I'd like the panel to discuss the conflict of interest re: the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner. Bronner's son serves in the Israeli Defense Forces and readers alerted the New...
Archives for March 2009
Attorney General Holder says he will consider helping US newspapers
posted by Ralph Ranalli on March 20, 2009
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that preserving a healthy newspaper industry was important and that he was open to adjusting antitrust policy if it would help.
"I'd like to think 20, 30, 40 years from now people will still be reading the newspaper," Holder said at a Justice Department press conference.
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) earlier in the week had urged the Justice Department to give newspapers more leeway to merge or combine operations. Executives at the largest newspaper in Pelosi's district, the San Francisco Chronicle, said the paper was in danger of closing but receive a temporary reprieve when its unions agreed to a wage cut.
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Iran seizes an American journalist
posted on March 20, 2009
Iranian authorities continue to hold American freelance journalist Roxana Saberi in prison while charges against her remain unclear. Major news organizations are protesting and working for her release.
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The Herald or the Globe: Who will survive?
posted on March 20, 2009
People have believed for years that Boston would eventually be a one-newspaper town. But a controversial list of endangered newspapers published by a Wall Street blog is questioning the assumption that that one newspaper would be the Boston Globe.
Jim Cramer vs Jon Stewart: No contest
posted on March 20, 2009
It was Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer in a mano a mano battle over CNBC's pre-meltdown coverage of the financial markets. Stewart won in a walkover.
Network news is all a-Twitter
posted on March 20, 2009
The microblogging service Twitter is less than 3 years old, but news networks - for better or worse - are jumping on the bandwagon and tweeting for all they're worth.
We interrupt this bad news to bring you some REALLY bad news
posted by Ralph Ranalli on March 20, 2009
A list compiled by the blog 24/7 Wall Street of the supposedly "10 Most Endangered" US newspapers caused quite a stir when it was picked up by Time magazine's online news service last week. One can only imagine what would have happened if Time had featured this little gem:
"85% of newspapers will be dead by 2011."
Globe may shutter City Weekly, consolidate suburban editions
posted by Ralph Ranalli on March 20, 2009
Ouch. The Boston Globe has hit another pothole on the road to going hyper-local.
First there was the lawsuit and settlement with rival Gatehouse Media, in which the Globe agreed to stop automatically aggregating stories from Gatehouse's Wicked Local web sites on its rival Your Town sites. Now it appears that the Globe's local coverage will be contracting in its print editions even as the paper tries to expand online.
Globe editors held a meeting with regional staffers Thursday and broke the news that the paper may soon shutter the City Weekly and Globe Northwest sections as a cost cutting move, according to several staffers who attended.
"It was pretty depressing, but I guess not surprising. Nothing is surprising anymore," one regional staffer who was at the meeting said.
The sorts of stories that had been going in City Weekly - neighborhood-oriented news from Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville - would be absorbed into the City & Region section under the plan, staffers said. Meanwhile, the 40 cities and towns in twice-weekly Globe Northwest, including Lowell and 15 in southern New Hampshire, would be split evenly between Globe North and Globe West.
Staffers said the plan was developed in response to the Globe's ongoing effort to cut 50 newsroom positions via voluntary buyouts - for which there are apparently few takers. If the Globe is forced to resort to layoffs (which it has been able to avoid in three previous staff reductions) they would be done largely by seniority and are expected to hit the young staffers in the regional sections particularly hard.
