Category : Media & Publishing

Written on Jun, 02, 2015 by in , | Leave a comment

Source:poynter.org Last year circulation revenues inched ahead of advertising for the world’s newspapers, according to a report out today from the trade group WAN-IFRA. For 2014, circulation generated $92 billion compared to $87 billion for advertising, according to a world press trends survey released as WAN-IFRA begins its annual World Congress meeting in Washington. Read entire story here

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Source: poynter.org by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the PressPublished May 19, 2015 10:58 amUpdated May 19, 2015 11:13 am This is another in a series of articles by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press covering legal issues that affect journalists. RCFP’s First Look Media Technology Fellow Jenn Henrichsen wrote this article.   read entire story here Threatening journalists over their reporting is not a new …

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Source: http: huffingtonpost.com read entire story here This is the first installment in our series on mental health in the newsroom. Here are the second, third, fourth and fifth installments. When Hurricane Katrina swirled onto the Louisiana shore and residents of New Orleans clogged highways to flee, John McCusker stayed behind. A photographer for The Times-Picayune for more than two decades, McCusker paddled through the city’s muddy …

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The pricetag would be high, but it might be worth it to reassemble one part of the old newspaper bundle — tying together local news and local services. By KEN DOCTOR @kdoctor May 21, 2015, 7:31 a.m.   Source: niemanlab.org read entire story here Yelp’s for sale, and the news has generated the usual, now-tiresome lists of potential buyers: Google, Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook. It’s like all …

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Source: editorandpublisher.com by: Tom Ratkovich I’m a fitness enthusiast and a poker player. While I’m better at the former than the latter, I’m always looking to improve my game. Before stepping onto the elliptical machine for some cardio recently, I downloaded a favorite poker podcast. The subject: folding your cards too early can be a mistake and cost you money. The …

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Source: newsguild.org Bernie Lunzer, President March 4, 2015 The NewsGuild-CWA IN January, the Washington Post reported on the city’s latest “scandal.” Evidently, a union organizing drive was underway in a digital-news shop. The “threat” was so real that a right-wing anti-taxer vowed to help fight off the terrible union. That audacious union was ours. What the Post didn’t know is that …

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Source: nanaimo-info-blog.com Mark MacDonald Leaves Daily News With the resignation of Hugh Nicholson and now Mark MacDonald it will be interestingto see what, if anything changes with Nanaimo’s oldest newspaper.I went into the Daily to deliver a press release about my council bid and asked to speak to the editor, Mark MacDonald. The receptionist paged Mark and soon another staffer came …

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Source: vancouversun.com The Kamloops Daily News is closing due to declining revenues and high costs, but the industry says this does not signal distress in the daily newspaper business as a whole. “This is the first major market paid daily that we’ve seen close in recent memory,” Newspapers Canada president and CEO John Hinds said. Read more: 

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Source: j-source.ca Black Press Media has shut down the Abbotsford/Mission Times, a little more than a month after purchasing the B.C. paper from Glacier Media. The company also took down the newspaper’s website and closed its Twitter account. When asked why the company was shutting down a newspaper it considered a worthy purchase in October, Rick O’Connor, president and CEO of Black Media, told …

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