mel | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2008 | newspapers, agonizing death, job search
Ah geez, this is depressing.
Quoted: Clearly, the sky is falling. The question now is how many people will be left to cover it.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 27 2009 | newspapers, journalism, news
One of the best quotes ever. Dowd routinely gets the good stuff.
Quoted: “For people who still love print, who like to hold it, feel it, rustle it, tear stuff out, do their I. F. Stone thing, it’s important to remember that people are living longer,” he said. “That’s the most hopeful thing you can say about print journalism, that old people are living longer.”
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 23 2009 | news, newspapers
On the plus side, Mlive.com is in the top 30, which includes the GRP...
Quoted: Maybe print does drive online readership. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which published its last edition on March 17, was knocked off the list of top 30 newspaper Web sites in March, according to the latest figures form Nielsen Online.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2009 | journalism, newspapers
Quoted: Even if Brill recruits 95 percent of the top newspapers and magazines in the country, welds digital-rights-management security bracelets onto all content, and assassinates hackers who redistribute copy without authorization, the idea can't work.
Quoted: Maybe Brill's business model should find a way to start billing the millions of free-riders who pick up pre-read copies in coffee stores or family members who share newspapers at home.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 14 2009 | news, newspapers
Quoted: In a memo not long ago to his staff, Times editor David Boardman referred to the newsroom as a "sacred" place where news "magic" happened.
I thought that sounded good, a sort of Hogwarts on Fairview.
Then his contemporary at the P-I, David McCumber, reminded me of something.
"The newsroom," he said, "is profane and conflicted."
Two cultures, two attitudes, two methods. All better than one. - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2009 | news, newspapers
Favorite phrase: "committing journalism"
Quoted: The future of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer appeared uncertain tonight after a local television station reported the newspaper is setting the stage for closure — but then the paper's managing editor said he knew of no such plans.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2007 | newspapers, journalism
Quoted: "We think it's a cultural disaster," said Hans Holm, who served as the chief editor of Post-och Inrikes Tidningar for 20 years.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 28 2006 | news, newspapers
Quoted: The King County Journal will put out its last issue on Jan. 21, the newspaper's new owners told employees at a meeting Thursday.
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- drew_s - Oct 31 2008
You must be Mel's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I'm sure half a dozen bloggers will share their conflicting and egocentric views on why the sky is falling, where it will land and who is to blame. What more do you need, really?
Soon the lawyers, pols, civil servants and their staffs will control the information. It will still be available, but it will cost more.
Send Mel a friend request or a personal message instead.