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Ebony Searches For A Saviour
7:50AM John Cook | Newsweek’s Johnnie L. Roberts reports that Ebony, which was founded with a $US500 loan in 1942, is in “big, big trouble” and shopping itself to Time Warner and Viacom. More »
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New York Times Execs Are Overpaid Even By Their Own Standards
1:15AM John Cook | The New York Times, which six months ago forced staffers to take a 5% paycut, has been overpaying its publisher and CEO for nearly two years in violation of its own compensation rules. We’re supposed to bail these people out? More »
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Will Variety Lead Old Media Back To Pay Wall Ghetto?
12:53AM John Cook | Variety, the Hollywood trade newspaper with its own secret language based on words like “ankle” and “boffo” into its copy, has confirmed that it plans to put most or all of its web site behind a paywall. More »
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NYT Mag’s “$400,000″ Hurricane Katrina Story: Expensive, Brilliant
7:45AM Foster Kamer | The NYT Magazine’s epic story covering a hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans dropped today. It’s estimated to have cost around $US400,000. What kind of reporting does that buy? The expensive, endangered kind. More »
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Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At Online Presence
7:15AM Foster Kamer | It must pain Jann Wenner to see his other properties start succeeding where his flagship magazine, Rolling Stone, squandered possibilities and descended into irrelevancy: online. Now that US Weekly’s site has heat, Wenner’s finally starting to line up RS’s strategy. More »
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The Plight Of Print’s Lucky Ones
4:31AM Gabriel Snyder | Lest they offend their many laid off friends, anyone who’s kept their job in print media will tell you they’re one of “the lucky ones.” But privately, survivors talk of the malaise sweeping medialand. This is one of them. More »
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If You Want To Know Why Newspapers Are Dying
10:10AM Gabriel Snyder | Explaining why newspapers (but not journalism) are dying, Bill Wyman doesn’t romanticise them: “So, sure, an average newspaper did print some serious journalism. But is that most of what they did, or even anything more than a tiny part?”
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New York Times Editor Comes Up With New Column Idea
6:21AM Gabriel Snyder | Jill Abramson, New York Times managing editor for news, has a new column: “This is the first article in a weekly series about the challenges and satisfactions of raising a puppy through its first year of life.” More »
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When We Walked On The Moon, And When Newspapers Mattered
3:36AM John Cook | Forty years ago today, some guys landed on the moon and walked around, and there were thousands of money-making newspapers on hand to chronicle it. They used words like “spacemen” and drew nifty mod-looking illustrations. Here’s a front-page gallery. More »
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