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Entries Tagged as 'Industry News'

Doonesbury Buyouts

September 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you haven’t read it this week, it’s all about us….
Start here to read from Monday on:
www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20080915

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Irony in Cartoon

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s irony for you:

Best, while listening to:
The Times They Are A-Changin’

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Insight From a Former Print Journalist

August 4th, 2008 · No Comments

This blog entry, 42 Things I Know, is definitely worth reading.
William Lobdell spent 25 years in Orange County California spilling ink, much of it with the Los Angles Times and the Daily Pilot. He writes about why he left newspapers.

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Paper Cuts: Newspaper Buyouts and Layoffs

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

From the files of ‘People Who Do Stuff Better Than Us’, Erica Smith (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) has an interactive and up to date map showing newspaper buytous and layoffs across the United States of these here Americas.

So far, she sees 6,000 fewer people working at newspapers.
(Thanks to the wmhartnett who brought this to our attention.)

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Tags: Body Count · Industry News

Newspapers: We Were Print

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Dedicated to Print Journalists
This Web site is dedicated to print journalists – specifically, newspaper journalists.
We are not blind to the irony of the Web as the medium we will use to connect with one another; we’re well aware that it’s one of the many reasons print is facing dire losses of readership.
However, we hold hope [...]

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