Adrian Monck says that the decline of newspapers has nothing to do with journalism and everything to do with the changing world.
Amen.
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Archive for August 6th, 2008
Another amazing example of mismanagement at The New York Times:
Fraud charges were filed yesterday against a former newspaper delivery man accused of bilking the New York Times for nearly $325,000 by submitting about 8,500 fake subscriptions.
Martin T. Holtet, 50, of 235 S. 19th St., is accused of defrauding the company of $227,000 in delivery fees [...]
Children were very close at the burial of the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps.
Time reports:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was buried today in a Russian Orthodox ceremony that included goose-stepping honor guards and a religious choir singing solemn dirges.
The service, attended by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and a bevy of [...]
Monkeys sell.
In Austria.
In Portugal.
Everywhere.
Good front pages.
A fantastic front-page story in today’s New York Times, with a great infographic.
K2 is known as the world’s hardest and most dangerous mountain for climbers, more challenging even than Everest.
Farther north and 1,500 miles from Everest, it collects heavy snow and storms, and climbers have only a few days each year when they can [...]
Big promotions up.
Big stories down.
The wrong mix.
A bad sign for readers and advertisers.
No proportion.
No respect for the news.
A newspaper in crisis.
YOUNG READERS? HERE THEY ARE, ON THE FRONT PAGE
Published by August 6th, 2008 in General. 0 CommentsIn Austria, they know how to attract young readers.
Well done!
Bush driving Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed at Camp David.
Saving gas is the game.
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The fight of the Century!
Murdoch versus Sulzberger.
The news:
The new Wall Street Journal is working.
Murdoch and his new editorial and management team are going full-speed against The New York Times.
How?
Ron Grover explains the Murdoch strategy here.
Months after it formally came under Murdoch’s sharp eye and equally pointy editor’s pencil, the Journal is clearly aiming at The [...]
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