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NBC competes with its Boston affiliate, WHDH
posted on October 30, 2009
NBC is apparently looking to start an NBC Boston local news web site that would compete with its own affiliate in the market, WHDH. NBC is already hearing from affiliates claiming the move to air Jay Leno at 10PM has undermined the ratings of local newscasts at 11PM.
The Christian Science Monitor succeeds online
posted on October 30, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor is doing better than many had predicted since ending its daily edition for online (and a weekly print magazine). Could the Monitor’s business model work for other newspapers?
Has Facebook changed the rules of journalism?
posted on October 30, 2009
In Florida, a grisly murder led reporters to use Facebook in order to find pictures and contact the victim's friends before her identity was released. How has access to social media tools like Facebook changed the rules of reporting?
Jack E. Robinson: how to cover a fringe candidate
posted on October 30, 2009
This week, Jack E. Robinson announced he is in the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. However, media coverage of his announcement was sparse. How does media coverage determine the viability of a candidate? And does it define a candidate’s ability to win an election?
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Today's Beat the Press
posted by Ralph Ranalli on October 30, 2009
Busy day. Sorry I didn't have time to post the line-up and topics before taping.
Segments should be up soon, but 'til then:
Line-up: Emily hosting, Joe, Callie, Adam Reilly subbing for Dan K., Kara Miller in the guest panelist chair.
Topics: Covering fringe political candidates, reporters using Facebook as a source, the Christian Science Monitor makes a comeback, Jay Leno's bad ratings kill NBC affiliate late newscasts across the US.
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Ainsley out as Boston Globe publisher, retires at 57
posted by Ralph Ranalli on October 29, 2009
The New York Times has announced that Publisher Steve Ainsley - on whose watch the Boston Globe slipped from being the region's premier news organization to a struggling, demoralized unit that at one point faced the possibility of extinction - will retire at the end of the year and be replaced by Chris Mayer, the current Senior V.P. for circulation and operations.
In an announcement released through Business Wire, Times Company CEO Janet Robinson chose to accentuate the positive about the 57-year-old Ainsley's tenure. She credited him in particular with pulling the paper through tough negotiations with employee unions - negotiations that included a threat that the paper could be shut down - that netted the Times $20 million in concessions.
"Over the past year Steve has shepherded a comprehensive financial strategy that has significantly strengthened the Globe and Boston.com and enhanced its ability to provide the New England community with high-quality news and information," Robinson said.
The Globe's Beth Healy reports that Mayer's job has been to oversee circulation, information technology, production, and distribution. He was also the "architect" of the recent circulation price increase that has helped the paper shore up its shaky finances, Healy writes.
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ABC fails to mention that groundbreaking US Senator Ed Brooke was a Republican
posted by Ralph Ranalli on October 29, 2009
The conservative watchdog site Media Research Center is criticizing ABC News for failing to mention that former Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts - the first African-American elected to the US Senate - was a Republican.
President Obama praised Brooke yesterday as he presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal. In a "Bias Alert" posted on their web site last night, Media Research Center said ABC's Charlie Gibson failed to mention that Brooke was a Republican during a brief mention of the medal ceremony on "World News."
David Gregory, who was filling in as anchor of NBC's "Nightly News," apparently did mention Brooke's GOP affiliation. CBS didn't do a story.
The Wall Street Journal closes its Boston bureau
posted by Ralph Ranalli on October 29, 2009
Romenesko and the Boston Gl0be have the details: Nine Wall Street Journal reporters will be laid off and asked to reapply for other jobs within the company as Boston bureau - which covered the mutual fund industry and other topics - is shut down.
Though Editor Robert Thomson said the Journal would maintain an "investigative presence" in Boston, the move marks a fairly complete retrenchment out of New England and back to the financial news giant's New York headquarters. The Journal shuttered its New England Regional Edition in 2000 after a 7-year run.
Thomson blamed the move on continued weakness in newspaper advertising. On the plus side, the Journal recently regained it's position as the highest-circulation daily in the United States, surpassing USA Today.
Loose lips sink ships: Least-Reassuring Analogy of the Week Award
posted by Ralph Ranalli on October 27, 2009
Fresh off the news that the New York Times won't be selling the Globe anytime soon, and that the Globe's daily print circulation is down another 18.9 percent, this little tidbit in New York magazine couldn't have been exactly reassuring for the folks on Morrissey Boulevard.
Meanwhile, though many people have blamed the Globe's problems on the collapse of traditional advertising-based revenue models or seismic shifts in news delivery mode preferences among readers, Boston University alumnus Bill O'Reilly of Fox News has another theory: Excessive snootiness.
Abdication: The Boston media gives away an important US Senate debate
posted by Emily Rooney on October 27, 2009
If viewers and listeners were bored to death by Monday night's senatorial debate at the JFK Library, they have the usual suspects to blame - the media. Only this time, they are right.
The entire expanse of Massachusetts television, radio and print media ceded control of the debate to the Edward Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. Why, you ask? Because it was free - the Kennedy Institute paid for everything. And we all got what we paid for, nothing. The format was lame, the questions were lame, the production was lame and the result was tedious. And for the record, I opposed this lazy and cozy partnership.
Virtually every rule of "don't" was broken. Don't ask everyone the same question, don't ask yes/no questions, don't ask hypotheticals, and don't use a format that doesn't allow for interaction among the candidates.
Peter Meade is one of the most competent, knowledgeable and civically engaged people I know - but that does not make him a debate moderator. Come to think of it, what he is, is senatorial material.
