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Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Lisa Murray Gregory interviews my boss, Bob Blubaugh is the editor of the Carroll County Times

Lisa Murray Gregory interviews my boss, Bob Blubaugh is the editor of the Carroll County Times

Hat Tip: Lisa Murray Gregory. The Human Condition with Lisa Gregory

How Journalism is Changing in Today's World NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In today's world journalism has become a risky business. Newspapers are closing up shop every day in light of the digital age and in many ways it seems the profession is under attack both figuratively and literally. Reporters are being gunned down in newsrooms and the public is becoming more and more suspicious of the profession as the result of the concept of fake news. Bob Blubaugh is the editor of the Carroll County Times in Maryland and has been in the journalism field first as a sports reporter and now as an editor for over 20 years. He is experiencing these concerns firsthand and yet remains committed to the idea of community journalism and the important role it continues to play in our lives.

The profession of journalism is in a precarious state these days as a result of the concept of "fake news," the influence of social media and the threat to the very existence of print media as a result of the digital age.

Bob Blubaugh, editor of the Carroll County Times in Maryland, recently talked with me for my first episode of The Human Condition with Lisa Gregory. He gives an insider's view of the challenges editors and reporters are facing, including the very real threats and violence inflicted upon on them, as well as talking about his love of community journalism and how important it is now more than ever.

Please view my podcast at thehumanconditionpodcast.com.



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Sunday, January 03, 2016

Boston Globe reporters and editors delivered newspapers on Sunday.

Don Surber: Boston Globe sets its minimum wage at $0.00 an hou... 

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2016/01/boston-globe-sets-its-minimum-wage-at.html 

Boston Globe sets its minimum wage at $0.00 an hour - Don Surber at Don Surber - 4 hours ago


To CNN, it is the feel-good story of the New Year. Boston Globe reporters and editors delivered newspapers on Sunday. If you're a subscriber to the Boston Globe, the person who delivered your Sunday paper might have been the same person who wrote part of it. Fed up after nearly a week of widespread delivery problems, dozens of reporters and editors at the Globe worked until dawn Sunday morning to deliver thousands of copies of the paper. The Globe said it was a "small gesture to show our Globe customers that we are working hard" to address the problems. Managing editors, politica... more »

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Management screwed up. It switched delivery companies last week. The delivery company has 600 "contractors" -- people who are paid less than minimum wage to deliver papers. Management said this was done to improve service.

Service so improved that customers complained and cancellations piled up. On Saturday, newsroom staffers volunteered to do the job. Apparently, they worked for nothing, which is even less than "contractors" received.

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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Worth repeating: November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson

Worth repeating: November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/1990/11/november-02-1990-obits-and-news-by.html

November 02, 1990 The Obits and the News By Ernest B. Furgurson


NEW YORK. — New York. - IN JANUARY 1928, they electrocuted Ruth Snyder, the first woman sent to the chair in New York. Most of Manhattan's newspapers ran columns of purple prose about it. Page 1 of the Daily News told the story in one word and one picture.

The word, in huge type, was DEAD! The blurred picture below it was of Snyder at the instant the shock hit her -- taken by photographer Tom Howard with a hidden camera strapped to his ankle.

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That may have been the News' most famous front page, at least until the one in 1975 when the president refused to bail the city out of its financial crunch. The headline that day was was FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.

The word ''dead'' has figured often in the 71-year-history of the News; the paper has specialized in crime reporting, and printed the best. But for the past week, since a long-feared strike began, some of its own employees have become actors instead of narrators in a running crime story.

Starting with the first editions after the strike began, competing papers have covered it as if the News itself were on its death bed, as it may be. There are three tabloids in New York, and the common wisdom is that not more than two can survive. If the strike and management's determination to break the unions does kill the News, one of those rivals might have the bad taste to run its own gleeful headline proclaiming the News DEAD!

That would be the Post, once stodgily liberal, now wackily conservative, catering to readers downscale from the News' hard-core blue-collar fans. The other, more upscale, is New York Newsday, the Manhattan sister of Long Island's Newsday (owned by Times-Mirror, which also owns the Baltimore Sun).


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Friday, May 09, 2014

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Average visit at newspaper site: 1.1 minutes

Reflections of a NewsosaurAverage visit at newspaper site: 1.1 minutes

http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2014/04/average-visit-at-newspaper-site-11.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

Average visit at newspaper site: 1.1 minutes
Even though two-thirds of American adults visit the digital media published by newspaper companies, the average time spent in each session is an anemic 1.1 minutes per day – notably below the engagement enjoyed by competing media.  

 The good news for publishers, as reported this week by the Newspaper Association of America, is that the number of unique visitors accessing newspaper websites grew to a record 161 million in March.  This represents a 19% increase in unique visitors over the prior year and 66.6% of all adults in the United States, according to data provided to the industry organization by the comScore analytics service.

 The bad news for publishers is that the average visitor in March spent only 1.1 minutes per day at a digital newspaper venue, according to supplementary data supplied to Newsosaur by comScore.  The data show that the engagement rate at newspapers falls well under the time spent at competing digital destinations... http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2014/04/average-visit-at-newspaper-site-11.html

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Thursday, May 01, 2014

Baltimore Sun Media Group buys The Capital in Annapolis and the Carroll County Times



May 1, 2014 | 11:13 AM The Baltimore Sun Media Group announced today that it purchased The Capital in Annapolis, the Carroll County Times and the Maryland publications and websites affiliated with those news organizations from Landmark Media Enterprises.... Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-baltimore-sun-media-group-buys-the-capital-in-annapolis-and-the-carroll-county-times,0,1541424.story

Carroll County Times Breaking News: Sun group acquires Times, Capital


The Baltimore Sun Media Group this morning announced it has purchased Landmark Community Newspapers of Maryland, publishers of the Carroll County Times, from Landmark Publishing…

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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Digital doctor Bezos takes on the ailing Post

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Digital doctor Bezos takes on the ailing Post

http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2013/08/digital-doctor-bezos-takes-on-ailing.html

"The purchase of the struggling Washington Post by Jeff Bezos may be the best news the news industry has had in a long time, because it finally puts a true digital native at the helm of a newspaper company. 

Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.Com, is uniquely equipped to bring unprecedented innovation and fresh energy to an industry whose managers run their businesses like the people of Cuba treat their 1953 Plymouths: tinkering with them just enough to keep them running. "


While the people in Cuba unfortunately have no other options, the newspaper industry has been sputtering toward irrelevance for the better part of a decade because editors and publishers either don’t like or don’t get digital publishing. Perhaps, it’s a bit of both. 

Either way, Bezos, who is paying $250 million of his own money to buy the newspaper from the heirs of the man who purchased it out bankruptcy in 1933, now has the opportunity to show publishers how to do digital. And it’s a safe bet he will grab it.  

With a personal fortune topping $25 billion, Bezos has the demonstrated means, insight and patience to re-envision the business model of an industry that has lost more than half of its primary revenue stream since advertising sales peaked at $49.4 billion in 2005. 


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http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2013/08/digital-doctor-bezos-takes-on-ailing.html

 - See more at: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/#sthash.fU6NrZxm.dpuf
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Digital usage overtaking all legacy media

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Digital usage overtaking all legacy media: "MONDAY, AUGUST 05, 2013

Digital usage overtaking all legacy 

media http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2013/08/digital-usage-overtaking-all-legacy.html 

Americans this year are likely to spend as many hours consuming content on digital devices as the combined amount of time that they devote to gazing at TV and paging through print, according to eMarketer, a research-aggregation service. 

After culling through reports from more than 40 institutions, eMarketer forecasts that the average amount of time likely to be spent on digital media this year will climb to five hours and 9 minutes (5:09), as compared with 4:31 in 2012.  

If the prediction holds true, then the amount of time spent with digital media will for the first time surpass the roughly 4½ hours per day that Americans historically have watched television. 

While TV heretofore has been unchallenged as the most popular medium, the shift to digital consumption (as discussed previously here) could create considerable static for local broadcasters. " ... http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2013/08/digital-usage-overtaking-all-legacy.html

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Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon

By Paul Farhi, Published: August 5, 2013


The Washington Post Co. agreed Monday to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations.

Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million in cash for The Post and affiliated publications to The Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper and other businesses.

Seattle-based Amazon will have no role in the purchase; Bezos himself will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days. The Post Co. will get a new, still undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without the newspaper.

The deal represents a sudden and stunning turn of events for The Post, Washington’s leading newspaper for decades and a powerful force in shaping the nation’s politics and policy. Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, an institution that has covered presidents and local communities and gained worldwide attention for its stories about the Watergate scandal and, in June, disclosures about National Security Agency surveillance programs


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Monday, August 05, 2013

Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post - herald-mail.com

Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post - herald-mail.com: "By The Associated Press 5:06 p.m. EDT, August 5, 2013

http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-amazon-founder-bezos-to-buy-washington-post-20130805%2C0%2C229959.story

LOS ANGELES — Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of “old media”: The Washington Post.

Bezos, 49, struck a deal announced Monday to buy the venerable Washington broadsheet and other newspapers for $250 million. It was a startling demonstration of how the Internet has created winners and losers and transformed the media landscape."

Read more: http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-amazon-founder-bezos-to-buy-washington-post-20130805%2C0%2C229959.story
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Saturday, August 03, 2013

New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe

BREAKING NEWSSaturday, August 3, 2013 2:45 AM EDT
New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe
The New York Times Company said on Saturday that it had agreed to sell The Boston Globe and its other New England media properties to John W. Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, returning the paper to local ownership after two decades in which it struggled to stem the decline in circulation and revenue.
Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman, confirmed that Mr. Henry would pay $70 million for the paper. That would represent a staggering drop in value for the Globe, which The Times bought in 1993 for $1.1 billion, the highest price paid for an American newspaper.

READ MORE »

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/business/media/new-york-times-company-sells-boston-globe.html?emc=edit_na_20130803&_r=0
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Friday, June 21, 2013

News Items: Chicago Sun-Times cuts entire photography staff.

Yet Another Blow To American Journalism

June 12, 2013 By Kellia Ramares-Watson

Again the Profit Motive Prefers Cheap Over Craft

News Items: Chicago Sun-Times cuts entire photography staff. While the company, which has been trying to revive its profits, still will hire professional freelance photographers for coverage, it will increasingly rely on reporters to take photos and video to accompany their stories.

Chicago Sun-Times will train reporters on ‘iPhone photography basics’ … a memo from Editor Craig Newman: “In the coming days and weeks, we’ll be working with all editorial employees to train and outfit you as much as possible to produce the content we need.”

There are two major groups of repercussions to the Chicago story: What this means for journalism, especially photojournalism itself, and what this move says about the economy as a whole.

- See more at: http://www.leftistreview.com/2013/06/12/yet-another-blow-to-american-journalism/kelliaramares/?goback=%2Egde_79756_member_250218951#sthash.iHkOhQA4.dpuf ...

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Not a good pic but Woodruff and Hunt are being introduced by Pres Casey



Sunday Afternoon, April 15, 2012


For more information: see “Washington insiders to speak on campus,” http://www.mcdaniel.edu/12054.htm, on the McDaniel College website, http://www.mcdaniel.edu/.

McDaniel College hosts a “Conversation with Washington Insiders” at 2:30 p.m. April 15, featuring a discussion with Washington, D.C., journalists and husband and wife, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News and Judy Woodruff of “PBS NewsHour.”

Dr. Roger Casey, president of McDaniel, moderates the hour-long event, which is free and open to the public. Questions and answers also will be solicited from the audience.

Al Hunt is executive editor of Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C. He was formerly a congressional and national political reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor for The Wall Street Journal for 35 years. He has served as a panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and PBS’ “Washington in Review,” as well as political analyst on CBS Morning News, and a panelist on CNN’s “The Capital Gang” and “Novak, Hunt & Shields.”


Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news as a television journalist at CNN, NBC, and PBS for more than three decades. She served as co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” chief Washington correspondent for PBS’ “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” and anchored the award-winning weekly documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” She was an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN for 12 years, anchoring the weekday political program, “Inside Politics.”


Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt speak at McDaniel College this afternoon



Sunday Afternoon, April 15, 2012


For more information: see “Washington insiders to speak on campus,” http://www.mcdaniel.edu/12054.htm, on the McDaniel College website, http://www.mcdaniel.edu/.

McDaniel College hosts a “Conversation with Washington Insiders” at 2:30 p.m. April 15, featuring a discussion with Washington, D.C., journalists and husband and wife, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News and Judy Woodruff of “PBS NewsHour.”

Dr. Roger Casey, president of McDaniel, moderates the hour-long event, which is free and open to the public. Questions and answers also will be solicited from the audience.

Al Hunt is executive editor of Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C. He was formerly a congressional and national political reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor for The Wall Street Journal for 35 years. He has served as a panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and PBS’ “Washington in Review,” as well as political analyst on CBS Morning News, and a panelist on CNN’s “The Capital Gang” and “Novak, Hunt & Shields.”


Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news as a television journalist at CNN, NBC, and PBS for more than three decades. She served as co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” chief Washington correspondent for PBS’ “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” and anchored the award-winning weekly documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” She was an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN for 12 years, anchoring the weekday political program, “Inside Politics.”



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Friday, January 06, 2012

The column I might have written by Steve Berryman

You could call this one "a parting shot!"


[January 6, 2012 for my blog, MediaHooker.org]

This Friday is an especially strange today for me, separated from an ongoing conversation with readers of The Frederick News-Post. As the new Editorial page editor Cliff Cumber took it upon himself to do away with all weekly columns; my voice has been successfully muted.

Returning the resulting Emails and assimilating the online comments will not be a necessary part of this day.

In its place was a – not so local – column by The Los Angeles Times; not a local citizen-journalist.

In fairness, weekly columnists were offered the opportunity to post up to two columns a month.  This arrangement held little comfort for me, as I know that readers want weekly attention to their thought processes, and lose out to random journaling.

Ironically, the Frederick News-Post – a very long standing and award winning paper for it’s size/geographics – is a DAILY newspaper.  One would assume that regular contact with readers would be more respected; why do they print a new “Editorial” opinion piece every day?

My argument is simply that the minimum continuity with an audience of readers is once a week.  A writer/reader relationship – involving a learning curve – is otherwise impossible.  Examples of newspapers with regular weekly columns include:  The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, and The Examiner.

The impact of having random columns – even with a loose monthly schedule – is exactly like publishing extra letters to the editor every day.  My reading says that the paper was already doing that…

And what of the papers approved description of its own column writers, “citizen-journalists?”

Think about it.  Quite demeaning, really, as are we not citizens already?  Or is this some attempt to set up a firewall between the News-Post corporately and its contract-basis writers?

As for me, a professional writer I was not (as defined by payment for prose) before doing my Friday FNP column.  I did write a weekly Monday column – hundreds - for www.TheTentacle.com since 2007; the stable of authors assembled by John Ashbury is certainly a fine association.... http://mediahooker1.blogspot.com/2012/01/column-i-might-have-written.html

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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Beginning of a new era: The St. Petersburg Times becomes the Tampa Bay Times

Beginning of a new era: The St. Petersburg Times becomes the Tampa Bay Times | TV shows, TV news, media issues: The Feed | Tampa Bay Times:

Eric Deggans -


"JANUARY 01, 2012

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Beginning of a new era: The St. Petersburg Times becomes the Tampa Bay Times
Sometimes, the best thing you can say about the end of an era, it that is also marks the start of a new one.


I will certainly admit twinges of odd feelings as the newspaper went about the business of officially changing its name from the St. Petersburg Times to the Tampa Bay Times -- a transition which became official on the front page today. We had an internal sale of promotional items with the old logos last month which felt a bit like a wake, and the day the signs were replaced on our downtown headquarters, you felt the sense of something momentous clicking into place."

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