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NewspapersLA Weekly Advertises On Craigslist For Mikulan's ReplacementYou remember Steven Mikulan? The widely-respected journalist and editor the LA Weekly canned last month after 25 years on staff? Mikulan was known for his versatility, earning accolades as both a theater critic and trial reporter. He counted Dominick Dunne as one of his many fans. Mikulan's most recent role at the paper was as editor of the LAW news blog, LA Daily. Said Kevin Roderick on LA Observed "I liked the aesthetics, if you will, that Mikulan brought to the Weekly's blog. He seemed to rise above the overheated city is falling apart while the Valley suffers meme that's currently in vogue at the Weekly, and his range of posts was a main reason I began checking the blog, well, daily." Anyhow, the LAW fired him. And now they're looking for his replacement on Craigslist. Comfort with web publishing (including basic HTML) a must!!!
Slate And The Myth Of Newspapers HatersCord Jefferson of The Awl takes exception to a recent article in Slate entitled "Paper Hangers: Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think." "Chillax, people," wrote Daniel Gross, who also works for Newsweek, a newsmagazine that fired lots of people last year before cutting its page count. "I can't help but think that many newspaper-doomsayers are conflating hope with analysis." Which brings us to our first problem: Based on this article, it would seem Gross believes there are actual Internet monsters-"newspaper-doomsayers," "digerati," etc.-cackling and blogging with glee every time a newsroom loses an editor. Mentioning the latest abysmal newspaper circulation statistics, he says "newspaper haters" must be joyous. LA Times Takes Vacation From AP ContentNext week, beginning November 8, the Tribune Co. newspapers including the LA Times are going to use as little Associated Press content as possible. It's an experiment designed to gauge whether discontinuing use of all AP content would be a practical option for the future. From Phil Rosenthal at the Chicago Tribune: The trial is scheduled to be conducted almost 13 months after Tribune Co. gave the AP a required two-year warning that it might drop the news service, effective Oct. 15, 2010. Tribune Co. said at the time that it was keeping its options open while weighing what role, if any, the AP would play in its future. Will Paywalls Rescue Newspapers?The heated debate over paywalls and charging for content continues to rage. Our sister blog BayNewser has turned to crowdsourcing for the answer, and the rest of the MediaBistro family is spreading the word: The issue is coming to a head. The New York Times is going to decide "within weeks" whether to erect a paywall. And Newsday already has. Some in the journalism business think newspapers won't be able to survive unless they start charging readers to read their stories on the Web. Others think it'll be the beginning of the end, as readers flee to free sources of news - with advertisers close behind.
New LA Times Celebrity BlogAnyone keeping track of web traffic knows that celebrity news equals page hits, if not journalistic respectability. Maybe that's why the LA Times is launching a new celebrity blog. Below is the LAT memo, found via LA Observed:
To: The Staff The Onion: Kidnappers &hearts NewspapersJust when it seems there's no humor left in the downfall of the newspaper industry, The Onion manages to make us chuckle: According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the day's date in filmed ransom demands. Read the full article at The Onion website. Tribune Co Finds New Way To Shrink The LA TimesThe pages are about to get skinnier. A Chicago Tribune article explains the downsizing of the LA Times: Tribune Co. is trimming the margins of its daily newspapers in an effort to improve its financial margins. All its daily newspapers -- including the Chicago Tribune -- will adopt a web width of 44 inches in the coming months, the company confirmed Tuesday. What that means in plain speak is that the front page of the LA Times will now be 11 inches wide instead of 12. Tribune says this will have no impact on content. Found via LA Biz Observed Thieves Swipe Glendale News-Press Rack
A Glendale News-Press rack that stands outside the newspaper's office on Brand Boulevard suddenly went missing.
California Watch Releases The Goods on Homeland Security Spending Today
Today, newsrooms across the state are running the first project produced by California Watch, the largest investigative reporting team in the state. California Watch and Schulz was able to help out several major newspapers around the state with local angles on the story. Even though we might get a nasty letter from them saying it, even the Sacramento Bee was able to take advantage of a non-profit's investigative reporting: OC Register Makes Worst PersonsVisit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Keith Olbermann calls out editors Keith Sharon, Todd Harmonson and David Bean by name for allowing Mark Whicker's horrible sports column treating Jaycee Dugard's 18 year detainment by a pedophile like she was in a curious soap opera-like coma where all she wanted was to see a sports page. Previously on FBLA: PreviouslySelf-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 Google Ends Ad Partnership With Newspapers LAT Made 'Hilarious Newspaper Clippings' Cut LA Daily News and FBLA Crossover There Are Cartoon Columnists at LAT Regret the Error 2008 Round Up LAT Homicide Blog Takes a Break? |
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