This morning's New York Times features a front-page Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin article on a story that MAN has been aggressively covering for six weeks: The New Museum's self-made ethical problems regarding its exhibition of a trustee's collection. ( Click here for a roundup of links to MAN's coverage. Click here for an op-ed I wrote for the current issue of The Art Newspaper.) Some thoughts:...
Britain's reputation for "libel tourism" is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned. Publishers, human rights groups and campaigners have expressed "substantial and increasing concern" because comments that would be protected under the freedom...
Tunisan blogger Fatma Riahi, who is known online as Arabicca, has been released by police investigating whether she is the author of Blog de Z , according to a posting on the Free Arabicca blog. According to Al Jazeera , Riahi was first summoned to appear before the Criminal Brigade of Gorjani in Tunis on Monday. She was released only to be arrested the next day. Her home was searched, and her computer...
RELATED " Covering the Fort Hood Shootings, A Day Later ," Al Tompkins Days after Twitter Lists were introduced to the public , the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday showed the power of this feature to cover a major news event in real-time. News organizations quickly created a trusted set of Twitter Lists to follow developments out of Texas. Lists from The Huffington Post , Los Angeles...
Waiting for a bus on my way to work I picked up a copy of the real estate sections of The Korea Times , a local newspaper serving the Korean community in Los Angeles. That’s right the real estate sections. There were two, a total of 32 pages of real estate coverage and advertisements in one day’s newspaper. This at a time when falling circulation and ad revenue forced the Los Angeles Times...
Just how bad for Obama were Tuesday's election results? So bad White House senior adviser David Axelrod went on Fox News Wednesday to try and spin it? In case you've forgotten, this is about two weeks after Axelrod told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, " [T]hey're not really a news station ." I guess that's changed now that the Republicans have come back to life (video of Major Garrett's unedited...
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Matthew Sheffield notes in a Nov. 4 NewsBusters post that the Los Angeles Times was "downplaying two Republican gubernatorial victories (state-wide) and playing up two House races won by Democrats," adding, "Sometimes spotting liberal bias is like shooting fish in a barrel." One of those races was in California. Los Angeles is in California. So, basically, Sheffield is criticizing...
On Halloween, I read in the Los Angeles Times that starting the next day, the California government would be holding back 10 percent more than it already does in state income taxes. At first, I thought it was some sort of sick Halloween joke. But it wasn't. Maybe worse, the newspaper tried to make the case for the "not technically a tax" withholding by saying: Think of it as a forced, interest-free...
The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers of the company will only use the statistics and breaking news The Tribune Company's chain of newspapers will try to see if they can do without the Associated Press news feed next week, as the bankrupt publisher tries to find ways it can manage costs, The Chicago Tribune reported (via mathewi ). The Tribune's trial separation from the AP starts...
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Texas Tribune Launches Tomorrow ( WaPo ) Evan Smith, the longtime editor of Texas Monthly , on Tuesday is launching the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news site which is designed to fill the gap left by the shrinking number of newspaper reporters at the state capitol in Austin. Can Newfangled Web Ads Save Journalism? ( Vanity Fair ) Matt...
Los Angeles Times Newspaper reluctantly endorses Corzine Philadelphia Inquirer AP TRENTON, NJ - Gov. Jon Corzine has received the endorsement of The Gloucester County Times, even though the newspaper believes another candidate is the best choice. In an editorial published Sunday, the newspaper said Independent Chris Daggett has ... New Jersey Voters Split Between Corzine, Christie FOXNews Poll Shows...
How do you say poignant graphic? Newspaper circulation over the past decades. It's that darned Internet I tell you. "...the Los Angeles Times is an absolute horror show."
Most national papers in America are faring better than metropolitan ones THE slope down which America’s metropolitan newspapers are tumbling became steeper this week. On October 26th the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed that the Los Angeles Times had lost 11% of its paying readers in the past year. Circulation at the Boston Globe tumbled by 18%. At the San Francisco Chronicle it fell by...
Press release CHICAGO -- The Chicago News Cooperative (CNC) Wednesday announced that the Chicago Tribune's leading City Hall reporter has joined the staff of the new multi-platform news venture that will offer public service reporting about Chicago for the New York Times, the city's public television station and on the Internet. Dan Mihalopoulos, who has covered City Hall for the Tribune since 2003,...
Apr-Sept 2009 daily circulation at the Top 25 Newspapers in U.S.: Wall Street Journal - 2,024,269 - 0.61% USA Today - 1,900,116 - (-17.15%) New York Times - 927,851 - (-7.28%) Los Angeles Times - 657,467 - (-11.05%) Washington Post - 582,844 - (-6.40%) NY Daily News - 544,167 - (-13.98%) NY Post - 508,042 - (-18.77%) Chicago Tribune - 465,892 - (-9.72%) Houston Chronicle - 384,419 - (-14.24%) Philadelphia...
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