MediaNews Group
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MediaNews Set To Launch Pay Walls Next Year - Posted 5 days, 3 hours ago
MediaNews Group, one of the largest newspaper companies in the U.S., has decided to launch pay walls on Web sites of two of its papers early next year.
The pay walls will first go into effect for the The Enterprise-Record in Chico, Calif. and The York Daily Record in Pennsylvania, and then... [FishBowlNY]
MediaNews Set To Launch Pay Walls Next Year - Posted 5 days, 3 hours ago
MediaNews Group, one of the largest newspaper companies in the U.S., has decided to launch pay walls on Web sites of two of its papers early next year.
The pay walls will first go into effect for the The Enterprise-Record in Chico, Calif. and The York Daily Record in Pennsylvania, and then... [FishBowlNY]
WaPo Nixes Salons In Face Of Criticism|The New York Blade Closes Up Shop|MediaNews Denies Bankruptcy|Boston Mag Owner Dumps "Idiot" Editors|SalaryTK's Unpaid Job Posts Sad But True - Posted July 2, 2009
FishbowlDC: The Washington Post responded to criticism of its proposal offering lobbyists and others off-the-record access to reporters and editors for a price. The "salon" idea has since been nixed altogether. Also: some fun bits from the AP's interview with President Barack Obama today.
The New York Times: Biweekly gay newspaper The... [FishBowlNY]
WaPo Nixes Salons In Face Of Criticism|The New York Blade Closes Up Shop|MediaNews Denies Bankruptcy|Boston Mag Owner Dumps "Idiot" Editors|SalaryTK's Unpaid Job Posts Sad But True - Posted July 2, 2009
FishbowlDC: The Washington Post responded to criticism of its proposal offering lobbyists and others off-the-record access to reporters and editors for a price. The "salon" idea has since been nixed altogether. Also: some fun bits from the AP's interview with President Barack Obama today.
The New York Times: Biweekly gay newspaper The... [FishBowlNY]
MediaNews Memo Continues Online Pay Content Discussion - Posted May 13, 2009
Yesterday, Romanesko published a memo by executives from national newspaper publisher MediaNews Group. The memo outlined the company's new interactive strategy, as devised by 22 MediaNews execs. Like many other newspaper companies, MediaNews is facing a decline in print circulation and interactive revenue growth, so its leaders have been trying to... [FishBowlNY]
SoCal Journo Signs Petition to Keep Journalism Local - Posted November 3, 2008
Len Cutler is the first (and as of this writing, only) name on a petition demanding that MediaNews Group not outsource reporting for the Long Beach Press-Telegram. The petition language follows:
We the undersigned support newsroom employees at the Press-Telegram in their effort to preserve local journalism. We support their stand against... [FishBowlLA]
Jon Fine: Newspapers Losing Money - Posted June 10, 2008
So it's not Earth-shattering news, but it's still news:
"Last week Dean Singleton, CEO of MediaNews Group (which owns the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, and 55 other American dailies) gave a remarkably candid speech on the state of the American newspaper to the World Newspaper Congress in Sweden.
It's drawn a... [FishBowlLA]




