John Sturm - MediaJobsDaily http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily Hire Minds Delivering News & Insight About Jobs in the Media Copyright 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:19:34 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Even Associations Can’t Protect Us; NAA Cuts 39 Jobs The Newspaper Association Of America has just cut 39 positions, or almost 50% of its staff, and announced it will no longer print physical copies of Presstime.

President and CEO John Sturm (who got creamed by Colbert last month) was direct about it: “Industry economics compelled this round of staff reductions—to ensure we remain an affordable value to our members,” he wrote in a memo.

These guys are supposed to be the ones looking out for us, and now they’re in trouble too? Come on, haven’t we hit bottom yet?

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]]> Rachel Kaufman http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/even-associations-cant-protect-us-naa-cuts-39-jobs_b537#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/even-associations-cant-protect-us-naa-cuts-39-jobs_b537 http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/even-associations-cant-protect-us-naa-cuts-39-jobs_b537 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:18:35 +0000 The Colbert Report Talks To Newspaper Journalist (Again) Editor-at-large of Hearst Newspapers and the San Francisco Chronicle, Phil Bronstein, decided to take a turn on The Colbert Report last night. Even though he ran John Sturm, head of the national publisher’s organization (NAA), through the ringer last week, Bronstein thought it was important to go on the show and risk ridicule, to try and convince TV viewers that the internet is killing the newspaper industry. Make sense to you? Yeah, we weren’t quite sure either. Tell us how you think he did.

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]]> Becki Heller http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/the-colbert-report-talks-to-newspaper-journalist-again_b378#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/the-colbert-report-talks-to-newspaper-journalist-again_b378 http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/the-colbert-report-talks-to-newspaper-journalist-again_b378 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:26:55 +0000 Colbert On The Newspaper Industry And now for something a little lighter:

Stephen Colbert sat down with NAA president John Sturm to talk about the death of newspapers. Let’s see how it went:

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]]> Rachel Kaufman http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/colbert-on-the-newspaper-industry_b321#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/colbert-on-the-newspaper-industry_b321 http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/colbert-on-the-newspaper-industry_b321 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:54:10 +0000