My local New Bedford Standard-Times has been shrinking for years, laying off nearly half of its newsroom staff since 2005, and now it's again shrinking physically. I woke up a month ago to find my morning paper had lost an inch off each … [Read more...]
Death of a newspaper
A link to the mlive/AANews website, customized to search on Ann Arbor: http://www.mlive.com/ann-arbor/ I don't think the reporter's speculation about the student paper, the Michigan Daily, undermining the city's paper is on target. … [Read more...]
Are newspapers doomed?
And no one really seems to know what to do about it. Over the last year, I've had the chance to go to a couple of panel discussions about the future of the news business, and the dominant themes seemed to be:People don't want to read … [Read more...]
Boston and Berlin
Everything is not better in Berlin: there is a lot of smoking (including by young people) persistent unemployment in some former eastern neighborhoods, intense debate about how to or how not to better integrate some immigrants from Turkey … [Read more...]
4th Estate or You Snooze, You Lose
This proposal is good news for municipalities. As a defender of those not on the web, it would be great to implement the public notices on the web and provide hard copies at key locations, city/town halls, senior centers, libraries.I … [Read more...]
Talk radio: Just so much talk
I remember 1994, after the Republicans took over Congress, when the new freshman class started referring to Rush Limbaugh as the "majority-maker". I've heard it suggested that talk radio would drive this gubernatorial race. And I'll tell … [Read more...]
Kennedy & Kerry’s media apologists
The Dow Jones/Ottaway newspaper on Cape Cod didn't have room today for thgis story about their buddy Ted The K flying private corporate jets at first class ticket prices, while their smaller sibling The Standard-Times in New Bedford along … [Read more...]