If you read anything from this week, make it the Los Angeles Times’ series on cars and the poor. It’s timely, well reported and a potential game changer.
Around the Web: LA Times layoffs, favorite magazines, fewer analysts
Tidbits on the news and publishing business from the past week: Life after layoffs – The Los Angeles Times announced last week it is cutting 150 newsroom jobs. It didn’t take long for lists of who’s leaving to appear on news industry blogs, including Tell Zell, and Ricochet, Chrys Wu’s blog for online news practitioners. […]
Newspaper industry: worst of times, or best?
To paraphrase Dickens, it is the best of times and the worst of times for the newspapers business. The worst of times: layoffs, more every day including downsizing at some of the country’s biggest papers. Just yesterday, the Los Angeles Times said it was cutting 250 jobs, including 150 in the newsroom, bringing its total […]
By Naming Stanton Editor, LA Times Bets Big on Digital
The Los Angeles Times today named Russ Stanton editor. Depending on how you feel about the present state of the newspaper business, this is either really good or really bad news, and for Stanton, a really good or a really bad job. I’m of the mind that it’s good on both counts, and not just […]
Go Web, Young Man
Newspapers see the future, and it’s digital. The latest evidence: earlier this week the New York Times Co. and three other investors sank $29.5 million into Automattic, the company that makes WordPress blogging software runs the WordPress.com free blogging Website. (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.com to create and host this blog.) According to a news report, […]
Web Editor Up for LA Times Top Job – A Good Thing
It’s the worst of times at the Los Angeles Times. James O’Shea, the paper’s editor in chief resigned last week after a budget dispute with publisher David Hiller. This comes a month after real estate mogul Sam Zell took control of the paper and the rest of the Tribune Co. It’s the latest skirmish in […]