About two months shy of its true 150th anniversary, the Rocky Mountain News published its last paper and prepares to completely close down. It had been seeking a buyer in the midst of troubles plaguing many newspapers these days.
My hat is off to our colleagues. I can’t help wondering what will happen to the archives [...]
Techdirt and Editor & Publisher posted two stories that the Wall Street Journal is laying off two news librarians:
Editor & Publisher:
“NEW YORK The librarian who operates The Wall Street Journal’s news research library — which is set to close with the elimination of her job and another staffer’s — said in a memo to other [...]
Garrett pointed me to the summary “On the Record: A Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of News” in the current issue of Focus on Global Resources.
“The recent and ongoing contraction in the newspaper industry and the emergence of the Internet as a venue for real-time news suggest that preserving newspapers will become [...]
I don’t normally listen to the National Public Radio program On the Media, but I happened to catch two stories on this week’s episode definitely worth mentioning here.
1) Like many archival repositories, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the archives that handle many important United States government records, like those from the Office of [...]
It’s the lawsuit for which some members of the copyright law world have been waiting: how much text in links on news sites is too much?
GateHouse Media, Inc., is suing The New York Times Co. to find out. Since many news sites, including aggregators like Yahoo! and Google News, link to news stories on other [...]
Associated Press reports that Google is ending its newspaper ad program on Feb 28, 2009:
“Emboldened by its online success, Google set out in November 2006 to help newspapers that have seen their revenue evaporate as more advertisers shifted their spending to the Internet to connect with the Web’s growing audience.
Under the program, potential advertisers were [...]
This coming weekend’s edition of the radio show Weekend America should include a segment on changes in the news industry. Here’s an excerpt from their weekly e-mail:
“… Take Journalisms Pulse.
In light of the Tribune bankruptcy and the massive lien the New York Times just leveraged on its own building, the future of daily journalism looks [...]
The Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other television stations and news organizations, as well as the Chicago Cubs (who will eventually win the World Series) filed for bankruptcy protection today. This filing probably won’t be the only one for a news organization during this downturn. Subscriptions and advertising revenue [...]
By now, you might have learned the Christian Science Monitor is planning to stop printing regularly and will be mostly an online publication. I was pondering how to discuss the change in this space and figured it out when, of all things, I read in the print edition of The Boston Globe that Ethan Zuckerman, [...]
AP reports that the Christian Science Monitor newspaper will become the first national newspaper to drop its daily print edition and focus on publishing online:
“Come April, the Boston-based general-interest paper — founded in 1908 and the winner of seven Pulitzer Prizes — will print only a weekend edition after struggling financially for decades, its editor [...]