From Advertising – Newspaper Ads Expected to Show Up to 30% Drop – NYTimes.com:
Publishers will start to report first-quarter results this week, but people who follow the industry and have had a glimpse of the 2009 numbers say it is clear that once again, even the most pessimistic predictions were not dark enough.
From The Media Equation – Newspapers Begin to Push Back on the Web – NYTimes.com:
Robert Thomson, the editor of The Wall Street Journal, was equally blunt, though in service of the original argument. “There is no doubt that certain Web sites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet,” he told the newspaper The Australian last Monday.
From Boston Globe Surprised by Size of Demand for Cuts – NYTimes.com:
“Now, nobody thinks that if we make these concessions, there won’t be more cuts in a few months,” he said.
From Iran Charges Imprisoned American Journalist With Spying – washingtonpost.com:
Roxana Saberi, an American freelance journalist who has been in Iranian custody since January, has been charged with spying
Two American journalists detained this month by North Korean soldiers will be put on trial for “hostile acts” and illegal entry, North Korea’s official news agency reported Tuesday.
With a doomsday clock ticking for newspapers as we know them, no one has more at stake than fourth-generation New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., who is scrambling to keep his family’s prized asset alive. Some see him as a lightweight cheerleader, others as the last, best defender of quality journalism. Talking to company insiders, the author examines the nexus of dynasty and character that has brought the 57-year-old Sulzberger to the precipice.
In exclusive interview with the Guardian, writer David Simon expresses fears for newspapers’ future and accuses media owners of contempt
Right about this same time last year (it’s 70th anniversary) I found an incredible paragon of throw-down urban journalism resting on the counter of my local 7/11 store. To say The St. Louis Metro Evening Whirl is unlike any newspaper printed and distributed in the United States would be giving it so little credit it’s not even funny.
The kidnappers have reportedly sent a list of demands insisting that People magazine print a half-page feature on Hutton’s New York restaurant venture P.J. Clarke’s, provide them with a suitcase containing $500,000 in unmarked bills, and include the actor “without fail” in the next People.com “Who Looked Hot?” web column.
If you are an independent journalist in a country in which independent journalism is seen as a danger to those in power, you sometimes cross a line from reporting the news to being the news. That is what is happening to Carlos Fernando Chamorro.
That is, what if they were to combine for critical mass and keep most of their journalism off the public Internet for a few days after publication but then make the archives freely available?
Today marks the last day of publication for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and I’m sad.
The people in charge told me I should do a farewell blog entry, so please indulge them — they’re losing a bunch of great people, including me.
Just in: Tomorrow will be the last print issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Seattle now is a one-newspaper town; its only remaining daily is The Seattle Times.