Topic Archive: Media future
Anh Do, a former columnist for the Orange County Register and vice president of Nguoi Viet Daily News (the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the U.S.), will be the managing editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2009 10:28 PM
The new "radio and multimedia service directed to an ethnically diverse and underserved 25-40 year-old demographic" — funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and managed by Radio Bilingüe —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 11, 2009 1:19 PM
That innovative new website for Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky that we told you about in May has gone live. It features a blog by Yaroslavsky and stories about county news and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2009 11:35 PM
In today's radio commentary I argue we should all care about embarrassed cops obtaining the phone records of TMZ's Harvey Levin. The segment airs — as every Friday — at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2009 4:20 PM
Following his toss-down of the gauntlet last night (reported first at LAO, I feel like saying), TMZ boss Harvey Levin guests tonight on "Which Way, L.A.?" to talk about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2009 4:54 PM
Venting in depth for the first time about official prying into his personal phone records, TMZ editor Harvey Levin tonight called it an illegal abuse of power — "a brutal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2009 9:05 PM
The Los Angeles artist says in a statement that he actively tried to conceal which photo he worked from in creating his Hope poster of Barack Obama. It was an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 17, 2009 12:04 PM
Former Inland Empire sports columnist Paul Oberjuerge, who blogged his own firing in 2008, finally got a job back in daily journalism — in Abu Dhabi. It grew out of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 16, 2009 9:24 AM
In my post this morning on Jim Rainey's Times column about the local media crossover efforts we've been following, I forgot to mention one that Rainey left out. That is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2009 12:49 PM
The LAT's media ponderer, James Rainey, catches up with and gives the once-over to three recently reported cases of a newsmaker hiring a journalist to deliver its news directly to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2009 9:40 AM
The new California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting at USC Annenberg has an ad running for three senior writers — "three experienced, accomplished, self-starting journalists to report about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2009 7:43 PM
Long checked out Friday as news director and VP at KNBC Channel 4. He's headed to Istanbul to teach a class in journalism ethics at Bahcesehir University. Long had previously... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 26, 2009 2:58 AM
David Cohn's Spot.us, which raises money from website readers to finance longer-form journalism, is opening in Los Angeles in association with USC Annenberg. He's looking for a managing editor. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 22, 2009 9:05 AM
Make that apples in this case, as the offspring of two local writers make publishing deals. First, 19-year-old Emmett Rensin, son of LAO's own David Rensin, has made profitable use... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 15, 2009 1:09 PM
California Watch, the new investigative reporting operation, will be coming out with its first piece tomorrow - an examination of waste and mismanagement in local homeland security grant spending across... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2009 1:38 PM
Variety is advertising for an editor of the daily paper and for an online editor to run the website. Also, USC Annenberg is helping to recruit a project manager "as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2009 3:10 PM
Billionaire Phil Anschutz's Examiner.com is acquiring the citizen journalism site NowPublic for about $25 million, according to paidcontent. Remember, back in June Forbes said that L.A.'s most publicly elusive major... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2009 1:56 PM
The investigative reporting operation launched to fill in where newspapers such as the L.A. Times don't go so much any more will announce on Monday its staff of 11 reporters,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 23, 2009 10:06 PM
The female orgasm story from 2008 has made it to the number one spot on today's most viewed and most emailed lists at the Los Angeles Times website.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2009 11:53 PM
The #2 most viewed story on the L.A. Times website this morning is a health story from February, 2008 explaining the key to female orgasms is "how far a woman's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2009 7:28 AM
Scott Martelle and Brett Levy are the former Los Angeles Times journalists running The Journalism Shop, the new co-op in which they and a selected group of other ex-LAT staffers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2009 10:11 PM
Couple of weeks ago it was former Los Angeles Times photographers starting a service to offer their freelance expertise. Now it's reporters and former associate editor Leo Wolinsky. "Highly skilled... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2009 12:32 AM
The Center for Investigative Reporting received more than 600 applications for its new California Watch project. The winner, to be announced soon, is Lance Williams, who has been part of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2009 7:01 PM
The Huffington Post is moving ahead with its long-talked-about local pages for Los Angeles. The site has "yet to set a launch date but is actively looking for the right... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2009 3:05 PM
Sunday's New York Times published a letter to that newspaper's public editor from the publisher of L.A. Youth, the paper run here by teenagers, commenting on a column about how... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2009 9:12 AM
The formal title is Chief Content Officer, and the employer is Radio Bilingue. The project takes a little more explanation. A major new public media programming service in Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 26, 2009 9:09 PM
Sharon Waxman's report that Nikki Finke inked a $14 million deal to sell Deadline Hollywood Daily has yet to be confirmed by anyone on the record, and Finke declines comment... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2009 11:15 PM
Life magazine says the Iranian photographer who submitted this photo of protests in Tehran is now missing and probably arrested. Here is a gallery of the photographer's work with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2009 12:05 PM
The current issue of Pomona College Magazine examines the future of news, drawing on journalist alums: Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times; Richard Pérez-Peña, who covers newspapers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2009 8:56 PM
Mike Florio, the fan who started Profootballtalk.com eight years ago, hits it big. NBC will announce Monday that is acquiring rights to PFT's content and will run it at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2009 4:30 PM
The Center for Investigative Reporting named the editorial director for its new reporting initiative focusing on California: Mark Katches, the former editor who oversaw prize-winning investigations at the Register in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2009 12:53 AM
The job skills and responsibilities sought in a new county government reporter for the Register in Orange County could be a template for how out-of-work journalists should market themselves these... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2009 11:59 AM
Nick Madigan was axed as a reporter for Sam Zell's shrinking Baltimore Sun. Then several co-workers with safer safety nets volunteered to leave instead. Madigan stays. He used to do... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2009 2:52 PM
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky is adapting to the new media order by revamping his official website to be more newsy under the guidance of Joel Sappell, who used... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 28, 2009 9:15 PM
I've now read and thoroughly enjoyed Michael Connelly's latest book. In today's Times review, Tim Rutten calls "The Scarecrow" Connelly's best since "The Poet," and also the first novel to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2009 11:53 PM
Author and journalist Scott Martelle blogs that he's been told that the annual Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism is shutting down. [* "Shutting down" was his original information, now revised... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2009 1:53 PM
I keep getting notes from readers about mistakes in the L.A. Times and on its website, including today's subhead gaffe saying the Hubble Space Telescope got new* telescopes rather than... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 16, 2009 12:25 PM
Author Frances Dinkelspiel has noticed that ever since the San Francisco Chronicle laid off dozens of reporters, the number of author and artist features in the paper has gone up.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 14, 2009 10:33 AM
I don't know which of these ethics provisions are new, but among those that caught my eye is the rule that "motion picture rights to articles written by news staffers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2009 2:50 PM
Michael Wolff continues his ongoing rant about newspapers at Newser, arguing that most papers have surrendered their niche anyway and that better means of doing their job are readily available.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2009 1:35 PM
Hard to see how this would apply to Dean Singleton's barely breathing SoCal newspapers, but here's the memo explaining MediaNews' plans to come up with some premium content that readers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2009 9:37 AM
More by Steve Greenberg Steve is the editorial cartoonist for LA Observed. Bio and email... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2009 9:18 AM
Times Wire web page appears to deliver everything generated by the New York Times, in order and in one sentence plus a headline and link. The "river of news," says... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2009 8:35 PM
The Center for Investigative Reporting is launching a new statewide reporting initiative "to produce in-depth multimedia journalism specific to California and to engage the public on issues of critical importance... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2009 8:24 AM
A bit of snark this morning from L.A. Times media writer James Rainey: latimesRainey Getting ready for Kerry Senate hearing on future of journalism. I'm sure we'll have this fixed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 6, 2009 4:49 PM
Mark has the goods at LA Biz Observed: TV Week is going online only. * Update: TV Week alum Michael Schneider blogs the history at Franklin Avenue. Also: Video story... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2009 6:59 PM
I've updated this morning's post about the Los Angeles Newspaper Group dropping its Dodgers beat writer. There's also this on the blog of Dodgers VP Josh Rawitch, who sits with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2009 5:26 PM
Tony Jackson, the Dodgers beat writer for the Daily News, has apparently been laid off, per KABC post-game show host Josh Suchon and chatter at SportsJournalists.com. Jon Weisman reacts at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2009 10:21 AM
Where we chronicle how the mainstream media and other media-centric Angelenos are adapting to Twitter. LATimesfood Danger! Danger! I inhaled too quickly while scarfing my Aebelskivers and almost shot powdered... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2009 1:54 PM
A SoCal newspaper editor passed along this fable, saying it came from a friend at the Denver Post. But I don't actually know who wrote it. (Update below.) One could... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 29, 2009 11:59 PM
Fifteen digital journalists from 10 states have been selected for the inaugural class of the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Entrepreneur Boot Camp. Local fellows are Julia Scott, who blogs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2009 3:35 PM
Oscar Garza came aboard as senior editor/content — basically the same as managing editor — last August. He was caught in today's budget cutting and leaves at the end of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 24, 2009 3:12 PM
The newsroom guild at the Daily News has gotten the word about Friday's latest round of reductions — and asked its members to voluntarily reduce their hours in order to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2009 8:36 AM
You know how state employees are being threatened with unpaid furloughs and salary cuts — and how Mayor Villaraigosa is asking city staffers to voluntarily give up some pay? And... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 21, 2009 9:16 PM
A photographer and a graphic artist are also expected to be laid off by the end of the week, according to what the union has been told by management. Some... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2009 3:38 PM
When Fox released "Dragonball:Evolution" in 2,000 theaters last weekend, it didn't bother with newspaper ads — or print reviewers, for that matter. The teens who were the target audience just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2009 11:08 AM
Variety executive editor Michael Speier is among those losing their jobs as part of a 7% staff cut across parent Reed Business Information, says The Wrap.com. It's the second big... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2009 3:47 PM
NPR's "Morning Edition" carried a piece today that made the point that ethnic media are faring better than more traditional newspapers, radio and TV stations. It cited Univision's KMEX and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2009 11:56 PM
Editors at UCLA's student paper "begrudgingly" ran a full-page ad for Haagen-Dazs wrapped around today's front page, and say in an editorial that it's a "regrettable but relatively unavoidable consequence... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2009 11:37 AM
Writer-producer Stu Kreisman has taken the Los Angeles Times for three decades, and he knows the paper still has some top writers. But management decisions to dilute the paper got... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2009 3:10 PM
Right-of-center blogs that used Pajamas Media as their advertising service are back on their own. The L.A-based PJM is dropping its blog ads network and will focus on PJTV, its... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2009 11:24 AM
Former L.A. Times systems guy and news editor Brett Levy is offering free webinars for journalists to get up to speed on their tech and New Media skills. The first... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2009 4:38 PM
David Zahniser takes a post-Measure B look at Brian D'Arcy, who runs the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18 at the DWP. LAT Three high-level managers forced out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 30, 2009 8:55 AM
Author and Slate blogger Mickey Kaus has several friends at the Los Angeles Times, but for years he has been advocating the demise of the paper — partly in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 28, 2009 9:58 PM
Unfortunate choice of names, perhaps, but the L.A. Times is officially calling its new weekly tabloid Brand X. It's the latest grasping at straws down on Spring Street and replaces... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 25, 2009 4:28 PM
Zócalo and the New America Foundation are hosting the founder of craigslist at the Arclight tonight at 7:30. Reservations are only available for the waiting list (and the Zócalo website... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 25, 2009 4:12 PM
Daily News top editor Carolina Garcia is out of the office this week on mandatory unpaid furlough. It's not just for hockey writers.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2009 5:45 PM
Wall Street Journal reporters Sue Schmidt and Glenn Simpson are leaving the paper to launch SNS Global LLC, which Politico's Michael Calderone calls "a new company where they’ll do investigative... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2009 11:43 AM
Cinny Kennard's position as head of NPR West won't be filled, plus there are cutbacks in travel, training, salary raises and discussions with the unions about further reductions. Here's the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 23, 2009 3:05 PM
Staffers in the Los Angeles Times newsroom expect the the next wave of forced departures to come down today, along with revelations of colleagues who choose this moment to retire... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 23, 2009 12:42 AM
Times media columnist James Rainey wrote over the weekend about how political pros love one unintended consequence of the wane of mainstream news outlets and the rise of blogs —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2009 11:43 PM
Californians Aware and its former president Richard McKee, a Pasadena City College professor, have been ordered to pay the legal fees that Orange Unified School District incurred after being sued... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2009 10:22 PM
There's about to be a fresh news outlet covering politics. Would you believe AOL? The Wrap reports that the service has hired Melinda Henneberger of Slate, and formerly of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2009 5:32 PM
National Public Radio is canceling all of its newspaper subscriptions, opting instead to grab the stories it takes from print journalists off the web. Romenesko Memos... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2009 5:11 PM
Rick Wartzman is not some Twitter-happy newbie who naively pimps New Media and technology. He's the former Business Editor at the Los Angeles Times, and was the editor of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2009 6:31 PM
A coalition of groups including California Common Cause, the Center for Media Justice, the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College and the LA Alliance for a New Economy... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2009 10:48 PM
David Carr, the New York Times media writer, argues that newspapers should stop giving it away on the web and that the nation's publishers should be legally free to conspire... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2009 3:56 PM
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was speaking in his office Friday to a delegation from the California Chicano News Media Association: Latino Journalists of California. At one point, per notes sent to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 1, 2009 9:03 AM
Double whammy today in the Los Angeles Newspaper Group world. First, holders of the company-wide Media News Group credit card, called P-Cards, were notified to stop using the cards at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2009 2:59 PM
It's so tough that journalists have stopped entering prize competitions. Recently the L.A. Press Club extended its deadline for contestants to submit entries to the entertainment awards. Now the California... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 24, 2009 1:10 AM
David Kronke, who covered television for the Daily News and wrote the paper's Mayor of Television blog, posted his final item today and said to watch for the launch of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2009 4:13 PM
A photographer taking pictures in the public areas at Union Station deleted his photos under pressure from Amtrak employees. More details at the Discarted blog. Apparently it's in violation of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 12, 2009 12:10 PM
NeonTommy.com at USC Annenberg is an "online digital news Web site created to fill a void in local and national news while providing news and commentary across multiple platforms—audio, video... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2009 10:30 PM
Anthony Citrano was taking pictures with his Nikon on Santa Monica Pier when a security guard for Pacific Park said he would have to show ID and sign a waiver,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 19, 2009 2:54 AM
A scenario as imagined by Joe Flint, the former WSJ, Entertainment Weekly and Variety reporter who is now director of industry programs at the Paley Center for Media. It helps... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 15, 2009 11:05 PM
That's the conclusion of David Westphal, who writes at USC's Online Journalism Review that the Knight Foundation's effort to seed the creation of local news operations across the U.S. received... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 14, 2009 9:34 PM
The New York Times is a forming a team of seven reporters from several desks to ramp up its coverage of environmental issues and news. The team includes former L.A.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 13, 2009 11:55 AM
Jm Farber wrote for the South Bay Daily Breeze for 16 years, serving as the paper's theater and arts critic. He was let go today, according to Culture Monster.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2009 5:35 PM
Guild blog The Stress Telegram has the background on the three journalists laid off today (by seniority in each department, I'm told) at the Long Beach Press-Telegram. There were also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2009 5:58 PM
Monday's front page in the New York Times carries a 2½-inch high display ad from CBS across the bottom. Economic necessity, the paper explains in a news story. In the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 4, 2009 10:18 PM
Staffers at the Daily Breeze came in to find the writing on the wall — OK, technically, the memo on the men's room door. The memo from Media News Group... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 29, 2008 10:47 AM
“Sowing Hope,” a series in the Merced Sun-Star upstate about efforts to open a medical school at UC Merced, is the first published project of the Center for California Health... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2008 6:24 PM
The Pulitzer board announced it will accept submissions of online journalism from "United States newspapers or news organizations that publish at least weekly, that are primarily dedicated to original news... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2008 9:28 AM
Memo today in the New York Times newsroom. From: Arthur Sulzberger JR. Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:36 AM To: NY TIMES NOTES; NY TIMES INTERNET; ALL IHTNEWS Subject: Our... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2008 10:59 AM
The previous editor of the Los Angeles Times wonders at the Nieman Watchdog whether newspapers will deliver "the rich, hard-hitting storytelling that gives the news its infrastructure of shoe-leather journalism... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 1, 2008 12:56 PM
Writing at LA Eastside, Browne Molyneux calls on La Opinión and the Sentinel to launch their own community-based versions of the homicide blog that has been put on hiatus by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 1, 2008 9:38 AM
James McPherson, the owner of Pasadena Now who fired his reporters and replaced them with cheap piece workers in India, is featured today in, of all places, Maureen Dowd's column... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2008 10:58 AM
Eric Ulken, who recently left as editor for interactive technology at LATimes.com, shares some lessons learned with USC's Online Journalism Review. His main case study is the project to develop... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 22, 2008 2:07 PM
Credit to the UCLA student newspaper, which sent a reporter and photographer to China for two weeks for a series of stories that began today on UCLA's presence there as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 19, 2008 2:32 PM
Voice of San Diego could be the future of Los Angeles journalism: small, independent, online, aggressive and above all smart — content with value trumps attitude, and there are no... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2008 9:58 PM
Hey, somebody's hiring. From Poynter: The Sacramento Bee is the leading news organization in the capital of California, a state boasting one of the world’s largest economies. We're looking to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 5, 2008 2:58 PM
Dean Singleton, owner of most of the Los Angeles-area newspapers that aren't part of the Times empire, said yesterday in a speech that his MediaNews Group is considering going to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 21, 2008 12:20 AM
Ex-LAT reporter and editor William Lobdell took some meaning from a recent perusal of the most-viewed stories at the Times and Register websites, concluding that the opinion pieces, crime briefs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2008 9:40 AM
USC Annenberg mothballed the original Online Journalism Review in June. But Geneva Overholser, the new director of the Annenberg School of Journalism, announced today that OJR is coming back under... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 17, 2008 1:26 PM
Exciting and fairly big news in the world of Los Angeles blogs. Eric Richardson announced today that his blogdowntown has been accepted into an incubator program at Community Partners and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 15, 2008 1:30 PM
Bill Boyarsky, posting dispatches from the Democratic gathering at Truthdig.com, concluded that this convention marked a welcome end to big media dominance of political reporting. This from a media veteran... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2008 10:35 AM
Email sent to Rebecca Rosen-Lum, former religion writer at the Contra Costa Times up north, gets back this little dig: The Contra Costa Times has cut its coverage of religion... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2008 10:02 AM
Sounds like everybody got kicked back yesterday emailing to that craigslist ad about a new newspaper forming in Los Angeles. But the ad has surfaced now in the classifieds at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2008 2:25 PM
More than a dozen journalists — many, but not all, recently staffers at the Los Angeles Times — emailed me that they tried to reply to yesterday's bogus-sounding craigslist ad... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2008 12:36 AM
Aura Bogado, who blogs at To the Curb, was in Chicago for the Unity journalism conference. Newspapers and other media outlets send recruiting teams to make contacts with potential hires... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2008 7:42 PM
Truthdig's columnist writes: The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet. It does not signal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 22, 2008 9:24 AM
Maurice Possley, a Chicago Tribune criminal justice reporter who was on the team that helped free wrongly convicted death row prisoners, asked to be included in his paper's involuntary separation... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2008 12:52 PM
When OJR suspended publication last month, the move ended a ten-year run in which the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications was a high-profile player in the emerging... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2008 10:50 PM
Shelly Leachman left the Daily Breeze last Thursday, and with it her career in newspapers (including a stint at the Santa Barbara News-Press in the Wendy McCaw meltdown years.) She's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 7, 2008 2:45 PM
His Flickr stream and an Editor & Publisher story.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 3, 2008 11:15 AM
TJ Sullivan checks out the Mindworks Global website and decides to help the Orange County Register's new offshore copy editors with their command of English. Native Intelligence Previously on LA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2008 2:31 PM
Steve Young's regular column in the DN's Sunday Viewpoint section is no longer needed, given that this week saw the last Sunday Viewpoint section to be published. Young takes it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 25, 2008 5:35 PM
Copy-editing of some stories in the Orange County Register, as well as layout of a sister community paper, will be handled at a company in New Delhi starting next month,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2008 10:25 PM
The Online Journalism Review had survived for ten years under the stewardship of USC's Annenberg School of Communications. No more. Editor Robert Niles posted today: I'm pleased to say that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2008 5:45 PM
The Huffington Post blogger's decision to tape, and then post, Bill Clinton slamming Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum is still being discussed and dissected all over the politics and mediasphere.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2008 9:07 AM
Not just fewer pages and sections, but fewer days of the week in print. The Daily Pilot in Orange County just dropped Mondays.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2008 1:46 PM
Christopher Page killed himself three weeks after losing his job as a theater critic and editor at the at the East Valley Tribune in Phoenix. He was 29. Sasha Anawalt,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 28, 2008 11:16 PM
LiveNewsCameras.com offers a wall of live news video from dozens of U.S. cities, and a "moderator" who monitors the hottest stories of that minute. At least, she's there during the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 19, 2008 11:42 PM
Cal State Los Angeles journalism students and faculty have been awarded a New Voices grant intended to support creative new citizen media projects. The team will "partner with community groups... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 15, 2008 1:07 PM
Anthony Pesce, next year's editor in chief of the student newspaper at UCLA, and photo editor/columnist Dharmishta Rood won a Knight News Challenge award to "create online publishing software geared... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 14, 2008 12:41 PM
After losing four sports staffers last week at the Daily News, the sports editor who doubles as writer of the paper's successful Kings blog had to ask for volunteers to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2008 10:38 PM