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LA Biz Journal reports: "Integrity is our most important commodity: Avoid writing or posting anything that would embarrass The Times or compromise your ability to do your job," the committee stated. So this memo is preempting a reporter flashing his boobs on Facebook while holding up a copy of the Turner Diaries or something? The advent of MySpace was seven years ago...way to keep up. Anyone think this is in the wake of those horrible Katie Couric photos? Via I Want Media Drex Heikes Responds to Neon Tommy Piece
"The kid who wrote it was first rate. I wish it had been more about the paper and less about yours truly. I asked him several times to focus on the paper because I could tell he was going all messiah, which is utterly misguided," Heikes tells FBLA. Noting, "The websites advisors are both former Weekly employees. I wonder what happened in the editing." But tellingly Heikes asks for patience, "I wish that crowd would calm down and give us a year." Noted. Previously on FBLA: LA Weekly Gets Defensive About Neon Tommy Report LA Weekly's 'New Guard' Slams LA Weekly's 'Old Guard'
Romero argues that "what's seen as a reduction of the editorial department is also a changing of the guard." That the new owners reduced the staff of the editorial department by more than half is not a perception - it's a fact. Romero should note all the empty cubicles around him in the Weekly office. Furthermore, the freelance budget has been slashed and the paper's page count has shrunk. But Romero would have you believe that getting smaller is a good thing: While the Weekly of yesteryear was a place for old white guys to pontificate -- in 10,000 words or less -- about the state of the nation, the new Weekly is, ironically, more like a daily newspaper, where reporters and journalists are employed to report, dig and do research before putting it on paper in fewer, tighter, fact-driven words. OC Register and FBLA Crossover
Full story is here. Hey LAT, Is There Nothing Else to Have an Opinion About?
It's not like she's Britney Spears or Paris Hilton or New Moon. Have some dignity. Neon Tommy Profiles Drex Heikes
Mike Lacey, the self-proclaimed "asshole in charge," said he has authorized Heikes to double the size of its editorial staff in the next six months. The whole piece by Kevin Douglas Grant can be found here. Pictured Dex Heikes and FBLA editor Tina Dupuy. Previously on FBLA: LA Weekly Throws Party For Incoming Editor LA Times Loses Real Estate Blog
Tribune Co. Out Of Bankruptcy In Six Months?The Tribune Company indicated in court papers filed last Friday that it might emerge from bankruptcy by May 31 of next year. The company is filing for a four month extension "to craft a plan to exit Chapter 11 without interference from other parties." Bankruptcy is very confusing. More from the LA Times: The Chicago-based media company, whose holdings include the Los Angeles Times and KTLA-TV Channel 5, is trying to avoid a lengthy and costly legal battle with some creditors, who are likely to recoup little of their investment in the company given the distressed values of its newspaper and television assets. Romenesko has the Tribune Co. memo. WSJ May Start Covering L.A.Bloomberg.com says that the Wall Street Journal may be adding local metro coverage of the Los Angeles area, according to "two people familiar with the company's thinking." The paper is also considering similar coverage of Chicago. From Bloomberg: Les Hinton, chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., told employees in a meeting yesterday that the newspaper was contemplating additional coverage in the California and Illinois cities, according to the people. Paywalls, The PollIn response to the heated debate over the paywalls and the future of newspapers, our sister blog BayNewser created a poll to crowdsource the answer. Results have been tallied:
Baynewser reflects on the results: While the poll may seem unscientific, it was relying on the principle articulated in James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. The principle says that "a diverse collection of independently-deciding individuals is likely to make certain types of decisions and predictions better than individuals or even experts." (Cribbed from Wikipedia.) There you have it. Mob Rule + Newspapers = No Paywalls
PreviouslyLA Weekly Advertises On Craigslist For Mikulan's Replacement Slate And The Myth Of Newspapers Haters LA Times Takes Vacation From AP Content Will Paywalls Rescue Newspapers? The Onion: Kidnappers &hearts Newspapers Tribune Co Finds New Way To Shrink The LA Times Thieves Swipe Glendale News-Press Rack California Watch Releases The Goods on Homeland Security Spending Today OC Register Makes Worst Persons Self-Pimp: FBLA Editor Takes on Tampa Tribune Editor Part Two Military Cancels 'Media Analyst Contract' With Rendon Group Self-Pimp: FBLA Editor Takes on Tampa Tribune Editor Glendale News-Press Identity Crisis Rainey On The Significance Of The Cronkite Errors "Mouthpiece Theater" Has Been Killed Andy Cobb Takes on Mouthpiece Theater FBLA Editor Self-Pimps LA Daily News Piece LA Times To Take Over OC Register Delivery Obama Admin to Newspapers: 'Drop Dead' San Diego Union-Tribune Threatens San Diego Reader With A Lawsuit Dude! LA Weekly Scored a MJ Funeral Ticket Anatomy of a Pop Culture Apocalypse LA Weekly Ratifies New Contract LA Weekly's Annual Weekly Literary Supplement Hits Newsstands FBLA Editor Self-Pimps LA Weekly Piece LA Times Ranked 4th Most Popular Newspaper Website Reports Of Drop In LA Times Circulation May Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. Or Not. Computer Glitch Gives LA Times Employees A Scare What's the Matter with Augusta, Kansas? LA Weekly Profiled LAPD Detective Turned Accused Murderer VVM Gets Defensive About Pimping New Haven Advocate Outsourced To India Village Voice Media Reports Their Blogs Get 40 Percent of All Pageviews San Jose Mercury News Will Soon Charge For Online Content Class-Action Lawsuit Against Antelope Valley Press Correction: FBLA Editor Punked by 2008 Article Los Angeles And San Francisco Losing The Onion New Weekly Magazine From LA Times New Paper For The Santa Clarita Valley Could the iPhone rescue journalism? Panel: Where's the money (for journalism)? Panel: Foundations probably won't save the SF Chronicle FBLA Editor Self-Pimps Pasadena Weekly Piece LAT's Staffers Win Society of American Business Editors and Writers Awards Peep Show From The Washington Post A Closer Look At The Front Page Bruin Ad LAT Front Page Ad Could Have Been Even Worse LA Times Runs A Fake News Story On The Front Page Daily Bruin Runs Front Page Ad, With Apologies Reuter's CEO Suggests The NYT Cut Newsroom Staff By 90% Newspaper Launches Trillion Dollar Ad Campaign Pics From Pressmen's Protest of LAT Pressman's Union To Protest Monday LAT Memo: A New Multimedia Editorial Product - Brand X LA Weekly Delves Into LAPD's Rape Kit Debacle Layoffs And Furloughs At O.C. Register Where Newspaper Racks Go To Die NYT Story Brings Starving Children Into Focus America's Apathy Towards Newspapers Is the LA Times Going to Be Bought Again Soon? Another Reason We Need To Keep Newspapers Alive SF Chronicle Management And Union Sort Of Come To An Understanding Sacramento Bee Union Chooses Pay Cut To Save Jobs LA Times Pressroom Training Films from 1953! Nice Headline, New York Times... Pressman's Union Talks Back To LAT Management LA Weekly Drops "Life In Hell" LAT Memo: Sallie Hofmeister to Become Assistant Managing Editor/Arts & Entertainment LA Times Response To Pressman's Protest A Look Back At The Pressman's Rally Patrick Range McDonald's State of Newspapers Address Las Vegas Paper Publishes Police Photos Of Hookers Chime in on NYPost Sean Delonas' Cartoon Phoenix New Times Confuses Satire For Fact, Sticks It In A Cover Story Tribune To Shrink Severance Packages San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group Gets A New Editor And A New General Manager SF Chronicle 'Redesigns' for 2009 Propsed Paycuts For 2 Northern California Papers Community Newspapers Doing Better Than Everyone Else |
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