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The Media Mob (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jim Romenesko—and just about every media site possible — linked to a story by The Philadelphia Daily News ' Dan Gross that says his paper's parent company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tina Brown and Barry Dillers nearly 200-hour old Web site The Daily Beast, claiming that its logo is "potentially trademark-infringing" with that of The Daily News . Mr. Gross quotes the letter (which...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Jim Romenesko s media news site has taken some hits lately.
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Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... newsroom leaders in U.S. journalism. The other has been some folks questioning him for leaving. Jim Romenesko quoted Roger Polthow , editor and publisher of the Idaho Falls Post Register: While I understand this inclination — I’ve thought about falling on my sword from time to time myself — it’s an impulse we should resist. Print/online journalism has never needed passionate, experienced,...
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The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Jim Romenesko points us towards an post from Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple in which he announces that Creative Loafing, his paper's parent company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to Mr. Wemple, it's really not that big a deal—in fact, it might be a good thing—since, according to Creative Loafing C.E.O., Ben Eason (whom Mr. Wemple paraphrases), the fiing...
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The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Former Life Magazine managing editor Bill Shapiro sent the above cover of the magazine from September 2004 (left) to Jim Romenesko's blog as a nod to Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whom many have noted resembles Tina Fey. Media Mob was just struck by how similar Ms. Fey's pose is to the most recent cover of Rolling Stone (right), which features the 30 Rock star along with Chris Rock...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... Breen, for instance, who says he worked for a New York City wholesaler (and wrote a 2004 letter to Jim Romenesko's blog, MediaNews), city news dealers paid just a penny per copy. That means it makes no economic sense to return the leftovers. The result, Breen claimed, was "their circ figures look great. Virtually every copy they print is 'sold.' " (An additional peek into the lunacy that...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Washington Post media regurgitator Howie Kurtz says that curator of all things journalistic Jim Romenesko was wrong when he said that Kurtz violated the WP's own policy by letting a Fox News flack...
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No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... News and, perhaps even more, the response from the unnamed “Fox News spokesman”. Poynter Online’s Jim Romenesko makes the interesting point that Kurtz violated Washington Post policy in allowing the “Fox News spokesman” to comment anonymously. I have to agree, what possible justification could there have been to grant anonymity? Bizarro. Anyhow, The San Francisco Chronicle promises us a...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... spiked her story about MSNBC because she how politics is discussed on her site. From Sklar's on Jim Romenesko's Poynter.org forum: This post was originally written for "Eat The Press' at the Huffington Post, but it was determined that the post was not "congruent with HuffPost's editorial position against the media's penchant for viewing everything through a left/right prism" (). With respect,...
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The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Jim Romenesko has posted a press release from the Chicago Tribune announcing the promotion of Jane Hirt to managing editor. Ms. Hirt had been the editor of RedEye , the Tribune 's young, hip [sic] paper, not to be mistaken with Fox News' young, hip [sic] late night show where bloggers are stars . (In fact, the Tribune Company tried to get Fox News to change the show's name in 2007.) Ms. Hirt...
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Freakonomics (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Photo: Pinkpoppy We recently presented you with a game-theory puzzle for Beauty and the Geek. Now here's a real-life story concerning apple pie, a historical example that is admittedly not very complex, but still quite interesting. It's via Jim Romenesko, citing an article on WBEZ.org: Medill's Peck Recalls Giving Pies to Chicago Police in 1968 Abe Peck, who [...]
