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Denver Post Takes Top Honors In E&P's Photo Contest - Posted October 26, 2009
Three staffers from The Denver Post have taken top honors in Editor & Publisher's Photo of the Year contest. E&P announced last night that the Post's Craig F. Walker, Meghan Lyden and Tim Rasmussen had been awarded the top prize in the competition for their multimedia entry "Ian Fisher: American Soldier," which... [FishBowlNY]

Denver Post Takes Top Honors In E&P's Photo Contest - Posted October 26, 2009
Three staffers from The Denver Post have taken top honors in Editor & Publisher's Photo of the Year contest. E&P announced last night that the Post's Craig F. Walker, Meghan Lyden and Tim Rasmussen had been awarded the top prize in the competition for their multimedia entry "Ian Fisher: American Soldier," which... [FishBowlNY]

WSJ Looks To Claim Title Of Number One Paper In Circulation - Posted October 14, 2009
The Wall Street Journal today released its latest circulation numbers, revealing that its circulation revenue has grown more than 10 percent year over year. According to numbers reported to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Journal said that its circulation is 2.024 million as of September 2009, compared to 2.012 last year.... [FishBowlNY]

How Necessary Is The NYT's R&D Department? - Posted October 9, 2009
How does The New York Times plan to usher in the newest digital innovations? Just ask its fulltime research & development department, which according to this lengthy profile in Editor & Publisher, "has spent nearly four years reviewing the newest technologies and gadgets for use in spreading news -- and advertising... [FishBowlNY]

How Necessary Is The NYT's R&D Department? - Posted October 9, 2009
How does The New York Times plan to usher in the newest digital innovations? Just ask its fulltime research & development department, which according to this lengthy profile in Editor & Publisher, "has spent nearly four years reviewing the newest technologies and gadgets for use in spreading news -- and advertising... [FishBowlNY]

WaPo Baghdad Bureau Chief Heads To NYT - Posted September 22, 2009
Editor & Publisher reports today that The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau chief Anthony Shadid is leaving the paper to join The New York Times' Baghdad staff in January. Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, told E&P that both he and his wife Nada Bakri, also a Post staffer based his Baghdad, will... [FishBowlNY]

WaPo Baghdad Bureau Chief Heads To NYT - Posted September 22, 2009
Editor & Publisher reports today that The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau chief Anthony Shadid is leaving the paper to join The New York Times' Baghdad staff in January. Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, told E&P that both he and his wife Nada Bakri, also a Post staffer based his Baghdad, will... [FishBowlNY]

Journal News Sacks Business News Staff, Rehires Cartoonist - Posted August 28, 2009
Earlier this week, we learned that Gannett-owned Westchester paper The Journal News was completing its restructuring this week by giving transitional pay packages to employees who chose not to reapply for jobs at the paper. Today, Talking Biz News, a business journalism blog, exclusively reports that the Journal News' entire business staff... [FishBowlNY]

Editor & Publisher Reveals 10 Papers That "Do It Right" - Posted August 11, 2009
At a time when local newspapers across the country are imperiled -- cutting staff and resources to stay alive, drawing more from pooled resources like the Associated Press to the detriment of their own original content and instituting furloughs -- it's important to celebrate those papers that are still doing challenging... [FishBowlNY]

Editor & Publisher Reveals 10 Papers That "Do It Right" - Posted August 11, 2009
At a time when local newspapers across the country are imperiled -- cutting staff and resources to stay alive, drawing more from pooled resources like the Associated Press to the detriment of their own original content and instituting furloughs -- it's important to celebrate those papers that are still doing challenging... [FishBowlNY]

Julie Powell Leads Bloggers To The Silver Screen - Posted August 7, 2009
This week, Editor & Publisher asked readers what their favorite journalism- or newspaper-based movies were. It got us thinking. Lots of our favorite movies revolve around newspaper writers and their lives in and out of the newsroom. From Citizen Kane, to His Girl Friday, to All the President's Men to Runaway... [FishBowlNY]

Layoffs Avoided At Consumer Reports Publisher - Posted July 17, 2009
After threatening to layoff staffers earlier this month if it could not produce $1.8 million in cuts, Consumer Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, has reached a deal with the union representing its staffers. The company has reached a tentative agreement with the Newspaper Guild of New York, promising to nix the... [FishBowlNY]

In Face Of Photoshopping Allegations, NYT Pulls Photos From Online Gallery - Posted July 8, 2009
Editor & Publisher noticed that the New York Times had taken down a slideshow of photos by Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins that had appeared in this Sunday's magazine depicting abandoned house construction projects in the wake of the financial crisis. Now, instead of the gallery online, there is a short statement... [FishBowlNY]

E&P Launches Photo Of The Year Contest With New Categories - Posted July 6, 2009
Editor & Publisher launched its Tenth Annual News Photos of the Year contest today. FishbowlDC has the details about the contest, which runs until September 14: "Newspaper print photos, online news photos, and video/multimedia published since September 13, 2008 are eligible for award consideration. One grand prize winner will receive $1,000 and... [FishBowlNY]

Kidnapped NYT Reporter's Escape Brings Press Blackout To Light - Posted June 22, 2009
Over the weekend, news broke that Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Rohde had escaped from captivity in Afghanistan, where he had been held for the past seven months. The news brought relief to a community overwhelmed by stories of violence against and arrests of journalists in Iran and the... [FishBowlNY]

Traffic Soars At WSJ.com In April - Posted May 18, 2009
Editor & Publisher has published Nielsen Online's monthly unique visitor tally for newspaper websites in April and they have a few surprises. First, there was a huge jump for The Wall Street Journal (ranked number two on the list) while hits at The New York Times' Web site were down by... [FishBowlNY]

EW.com, WSJ.com Take Top Prizes At EPpy Awards - Posted May 7, 2009
Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek presented their 14th consecutive EPpy Awards today in at the Interactive Newspaper Conference and Trade Show in New Orleans, honoring "the best Web sites in the media world." The beleaguered Boston Globe, The Las Vegas Sun, CNN and ESPN all took home two awards each. The Globe,... [FishBowlNY]

EW.com, WSJ.com Take Top Prizes At EPpy Awards - Posted May 7, 2009
Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek presented their 14th consecutive EPpy Awards today in at the Interactive Newspaper Conference and Trade Show in New Orleans, honoring "the best Web sites in the media world." The beleaguered Boston Globe, The Las Vegas Sun, CNN and ESPN all took home two awards each. The Globe,... [FishBowlNY]

New York Newspapers Can't Retain Web Site Traffic - Posted April 22, 2009
Webnewser has a story detailing the struggles that the recently online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer is having to retain Web traffic, which fell 23 percent year-to-year. However, there's an interesting story happening closer to home as well. As Editor & Publisher reports, while The New York Times' site saw unique visitors rise seven... [FishBowlNY]