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And In Other News: Copywriting The News|The Scene At Zoellner's Uranium Party|Sanford Scandal Boost S.C. Paper But They Still Cut Staff|USA TODAY Ditches Quarterly Mag - Posted June 26, 2009
MediaJobsDaily: A federal appellate judge suggested that Web sites should be banned from from accessing, linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted material without the owner's consent. Seriously, how would we do our job then? GalleyCat: Mediabistro.com sets the scene at this week's "Uranium"-themed party for PR and media peeps, hosted by author Tom... [FishBowlNY]

And In Other News: Copywriting The News|The Scene At Zoellner's Uranium Party|Sanford Scandal Boost S.C. Paper But They Still Cut Staff|USA TODAY Ditches Quarterly Mag - Posted June 26, 2009
MediaJobsDaily: A federal appellate judge suggested that Web sites should be banned from from accessing, linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted material without the owner's consent. Seriously, how would we do our job then? GalleyCat: Mediabistro.com sets the scene at this week's "Uranium"-themed party for PR and media peeps, hosted by author Tom... [FishBowlNY]

On The Menu: Gannett Might Be Bankrupt, But HuffPo's Expanding - Posted June 23, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, GalleyCat's Jason Boog and editorial director Rebecca Fox barreled through technical difficulties to discuss some breaking media headlines of the day. This morning, Rebecca and Jason discussed news that USA TODAY publisher Gannett might have to declare bankruptcy and the launch of The... [FishBowlNY]

On The Menu: Gannett Might Be Bankrupt, But HuffPo's Expanding - Posted June 23, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, GalleyCat's Jason Boog and editorial director Rebecca Fox barreled through technical difficulties to discuss some breaking media headlines of the day. This morning, Rebecca and Jason discussed news that USA TODAY publisher Gannett might have to declare bankruptcy and the launch of The... [FishBowlNY]

USA TODAY Cuts Ad Staff - Posted May 28, 2009
Yesterday, our colleagues at MediaJobsDaily reported exclusively that three ad sales reps in USA TODAY's New York office and one in Chicago lost their jobs on May 13, which a spokesperson from the newspaper confirmed. The layoffs come as a surprise since USA TODAY's parent company Gannett required staff to take furloughs... [FishBowlNY]

USA TODAY Cuts Ad Staff - Posted May 28, 2009
Yesterday, our colleagues at MediaJobsDaily reported exclusively that three ad sales reps in USA TODAY's New York office and one in Chicago lost their jobs on May 13, which a spokesperson from the newspaper confirmed. The layoffs come as a surprise since USA TODAY's parent company Gannett required staff to take furloughs... [FishBowlNY]

AOL's New Political Site Lands Sweet and Lawrence - Posted April 9, 2009
Michael Calderone is reporting that AOL's upcoming politics site PoliticsDaily.com has landed some big name contributors, notably the Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet. Sweet will contribute a column to the site as well as blog about the First Lady (Daily FLOTUS is one title being considered). Sweet tells Politico: I'm very, very... [FishBowlNY]

AOL's New Political Site Lands Sweet and Lawrence - Posted April 9, 2009
Michael Calderone is reporting that AOL's upcoming politics site PoliticsDaily.com has landed some big name contributors, notably the Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet. Sweet will contribute a column to the site as well as blog about the First Lady (Daily FLOTUS is one title being considered). Sweet tells Politico: I'm very, very... [FishBowlNY]

Whitehouse.Gov to Open the 'Pool' to Everyone? - Posted January 21, 2009
USA Today is reporting that the new whitehouse.gov, which launched at one minute after noon yesterday (a good four minutes before Barack Obama actually took the oath of office) will be posting pool reports. This great news for those of us who enjoy reading the pool reports but struggle to... [FishBowlNY]

Barack Obama Drinking Coffee With Everyone but The New York Times - Posted January 16, 2009
Does Barack Obama have something against the New York Times? We talked about this a bit on the media menu this morning but it's beginning to seem like Obama is planning on visiting every newspaper but the Times. Yesterday he hit both the USA Today and Washington Post newsrooms... [FishBowlNY]

Maxim, Blender Publisher May be Turned Over to Creditors - Posted November 24, 2008
Looks like Citigroup wasn't the only one struggling to get through the weekend. The WSJ is reporting that Alpha Media, the publisher of laddie magazines Maxim and Blender, is in "restructuring talks that are expected to turn over the company to creditors." Just to give you a sense of... [FishBowlNY]

All the News That's Fit to Imitate?* - Posted November 18, 2008
Apparently there is not enough news to go around. Twice already this week someone has brought to our attention similar articles being published in different papers by different writers. The first example comes to us from former fishbowlNY'er Neal Ungerleider who points out that both USA Today and... [FishBowlNY]

Lee Abrams Has Us Pretty Well Pissed Off - Posted June 2, 2008
We're used to making jokes about the outside people who come into newsrooms and mess them all up with their complete lack of understanding about what makes a newspaper a newspaper. But we're having a hard time laughing at the latest lunatic musings from Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams: Then... [FishBowlLA]