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Orange County Register Lays Off 110, “Not Just Profitablity”

Orange County Register Lays Off 110, “Not Just Profitablity”

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Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Orange County Register is laying off 110 by Friday.  We should remember that their parent company a few months ago launched a pilot program to outsource some editing to India, in addition to also sending some pages for pagination overseas as well.  A flat world indeed! OCR Publisher Terry Horne: “This isn’t necessarily just to improve profitability, we have to become a different kind of company,” Horne said. “We will be more focused…

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Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy

Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy

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Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy. Wow – read the post before this first.  Then read this.  Here’s where we’re going, folks.  This is earth shattering. The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day. The changes at the Monitor will include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting…

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New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet

New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet

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New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet Wow – even with out the Silicon Valley Insider’s snark, this is a wild and wooly bit to go out to the troops from the NYT Editor, Bill Keller.  The cattle must have been close to stampede… Check out the Insiders conclusion: But we have a problem with Bill’s characterization of the cuts around the industry as “short-sighted.” Bill’s business reporters would never characterize them that way, and if…

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Media Ethics and Political Affiliations

Media Ethics and Political Affiliations

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Watching the Twitter streams of the newly minted gurus of Social Media, I’m often surprised by how little many of the experts actually know about traditional media. In fact, I’m surprised by how many of us actually have bought the “journalistic ethics” and “media bias” lines we see so often. One of the giants of the Social Media, who I’m not gonna call out here, the other day expressed dismay that the Boston Globe had made an endorsement of Senator…

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NY Times: I Got the News Instantaneously, Oh Boy

NY Times: I Got the News Instantaneously, Oh Boy

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(For our newer readers, I used to work for the premier supplier of newspaper software systems, and in the dim and distant past was a writer with the Worcester Telegram – so I still follow what’s going on in the print world quite closely) The Sunday New York Times had a very intesting article this morning entitled “I Got the News Instantaneously, Oh Boy” which was written by Media Writer Tim Arango.  In it, Tim takes on the issue of…

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How Technorati Gave Away Their Special Sauce

How Technorati Gave Away Their Special Sauce

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I used to use Technorati to find compelling blog posts to share and comments.  It was rather convenient to be able to go to one spot and find out what people were saying in blogs around the globe and to easily search.  One of the most compelling features, for me, was that it was an application designed with blogs only in mind. This morning I was looking a set of compelling blog posts on the anniversary of 9/11.  So I…

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The Worm Turns for Big Media

The Worm Turns for Big Media

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There have been two big events in the media world in the past couple days, and to some extent, I think both have gone largely unnoticed.  The first is that the 2008 Olympics have become a real social media event, such to the extent that it’s been written about almost as much as Misty May’s tattoo or Michael Phelp’s speedo.  From the NY Times (pointer via Churbuck.com) article by David Carr: “On Friday, NBC spent the day trying to plug…

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Duncan Riley: At the end of the war, Newspapers commit ritual suicide

Duncan Riley: At the end of the war, Newspapers commit ritual suicide

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Duncan Riley writes at Inquisitr that the Philadelphia Inquirer has set a new policy requiring that all “signature investigative reporting” appear in print before it hits the web site. Romenesko has a copy of the memo sent to Inquirer staff. The important parts: Beginning today, we are adopting an Inquirer first policy for our signature investigative reporting, enterprise, trend stories, news features, and reviews of all sorts. What that means is that we won’t post those stories online until they’re…

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PEJ Report – The Changing Newspaper Newsroom

PEJ Report – The Changing Newspaper Newsroom

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The Project for Excellence in Journalism (funded by the PEW Charitable Trust) has an excellent report out on the Changing Newspaper Newsroom – with some very interesting statistics that seem to imply the newspapers still haven’t got the message about their value proposition. It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of…

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Tribune Company – Leave the Gun, Take the Cannolis

Tribune Company – Leave the Gun, Take the Cannolis

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Big moves today over at Tribune Publishing – the owners of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. The moves apparently started last month when Publisher Scott C. Smith retired, and was replaced on an interim basis by Bob Gremillion, publishing group executive vice president. Ann Marie Lipinski, the newspaper’s senior vice president and editor is leaving and will be replaced by Gerould W. Kern who’s been their VP Editorial for the last 5 years. Later in the day,…

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