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Michael Jackson Obituary: Read it Today on Wikipedia

You want to read the Michael Jackson’s Obituary that’ll run in tomorrow’s newspaper? Check Wikipedia.

Wikipedia: How Newspaper Obituaries are Written

Since learning of the news of Michael Jackson’s dead (from Laine’s Facebook status), I have been monitoring the Michael Jackson Wikipedia edit log. Based on the edit log, it looks as though Wikipedia had […]

Newspaper Advertising Sales Down $4.5 Billion

Comments TechCrunch: From Terrible To Terrifying: Newspaper Ad Sales Plummet $2.6 Billion In Q1 2009. Here it is in a nutshell…

Thanks to Grant from the The Guild of Scientific Troubadours for bringing this depressing news to our attention.

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1. Buyout. 2. Blogger. 3. Profit?

Have you done it? Are you a blogger? Is it working out for you?

How have you taken your personal print brand and turned it into an online brand?

Has anything specific worked well for you or been a complete failure?

If nothing else, pimp your blog below.

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Shocking: Judge Parker is Back, AJC has a Comics Editor

In reading a Washington Post commentary, Are Too Many Newspaper Comic Polls a Sham?, I was shocked by two points:

Judge Parker is being returned to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The AJC has a Comics Editor.

Judge Parker? Really? You’re not exactly picking up new readers with that stinker.

With the Atlanta Journal-Constitution cutting more than […]

Will Your Tribune Buyout Check Clear?

A note from my Tribune source…

Anyone who took the buyout and opted not to take the money until 2009 got screwed. As soon as Tribune declared bankruptcy, all of those people were deemed “creditors” and just went on the list of people Tribune can’t pay. It wasn’t a lot of people, but it was […]