| Newspaper Union Postpones $25 Raise | The Philadelphia Inquirer August 27, 2008 | Aug. 27--Writers, editors, and advertising sales representatives for The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News agreed today to postpone a $25 weekly raise to help the newspapers cut $10 million in costs by the end of this year.
Members of the 700-strong Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia voted, 197-79, to push back the raise until Aug. 1, 2009, just a month before the current labor contract with Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C. expires.
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| | Times Media Picks Revenue Exec | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 27, 2008 | Newspaper industry veteran Scott McKibben on Tuesday was named executive vice president, chief revenue officer, for the Los Angeles Times Media Group, filling a job considered key to reviving the company's flagging financial fortunes.
The appointment of McKibben is the first major move by new Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein.
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| Bloggers' Access Raises Questions About the Blurring Between Journalism and Activism | | The Dallas Morning NewsAugust 26, 2008 | DENVER _ It was an unprecedented move by Democrats and Republicans this year when they invited hundreds of bloggers to cover their conventions with the same access as _ and in some cases much better than _ the mainstream media.
And as the detailed, witty and largely positive online write-ups pour in from the Democratic convention floor this week, it's easy to see why this was a stroke of party-buzz brilliance.
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| | Times Media to Enter Real Estate Business | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 23, 2008 | Searching for new sources of revenue, Los Angeles Times Media Group is getting into the real estate business.
On Monday, Times Media Group and other partners will launch ZetaBid, a business that will auction foreclosed homes and other properties.
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| Reporter Worked for Media Rights | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 23, 2008 | Jack Landau, 74, a founder of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, died Aug. 9 of complications from emphysema at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va.
The committee, a Washington-based legal defense and research center for reporters, was created in 1970, when the nation's news media were facing increasing government subpoenas demanding that reporters name confidential sources.
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| | Newspaper Death Knell Premature | | Crain's New York BusinessAugust 18, 2008 | Another prediction of the death of newspapers just hit my in-box.
U.S. papers' print-ad revenue fell 9.4% in 2007.
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| | Gannett July Revenue Down 12% As Classifieds Stay Depressed | | .August 22, 2008 | "Gannett Co. Inc. reported its July revenue fell 12%, adjusted for currency differences between the dollar and British pound."
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| | BRIEF: Gannett Announces Job Cuts in State | | The Milwaukee Journal SentinelAugust 21, 2008 | Aug. 21--Gannett's Central Wisconsin Media Group is cutting 11 full-time positions next month when it closes its Stevens Point production facility, the Wausau Daily Herald reported today.
Gannett owns that paper, as well as the Stevens Point Journal, Marshfield News-Herald and Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune in central Wisconsin.
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| Gannett Eliminates New Jersey Jobs | | Asbury Park PressAugust 21, 2008 | Aug. 21--Gannett Co. Inc. eliminated 120 full- and part-time positions Tuesday at its six newspapers in New Jersey due to deteriorating business conditions.
The layoffs took place at the Asbury Park Press, the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick, the Courier News in Bridgewater, the Daily Record in Parsippany and the Daily Journal in Vineland.
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| | Four More Newspapers Intend To Drop AP Over Rates | | .August 21, 2008 | "At least four more daily papers are planning to drop the Associated Press in the wake of new rates being announced, including The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash, which is trying to cut ties without the required two-year notice."
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| WSJ launches free news application for BlackBerry | | Associated Press/AP OnlineAugust 19, 2008 | NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal launched a wireless application for BlackBerry smart phones Tuesday as news organizations look for opportunities to tap an emerging market for mobile advertising.
The free WSJ.com Mobile Reader will let users view headlines, summaries and full articles - previously viewed articles will be available for some time even if the user loses wireless connectivity.
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| | Cleveland 'Plain Dealer' Offers Buyouts to 370 | | .August 20, 2008 | "Ohio's largest newspaper today offered voluntary buyouts to most of its 370 non-union office workers -- representing nearly a third of The Plain Dealer's 1,200 employees.
The newspaper reported on its Web site that the move is part of an effort to reduce expenses as the industry struggles with advertising sale."
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| | New Publisher Expects Autonomy | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 19, 2008 | The Los Angeles Times' new publisher, Eddy Hartenstein, said Monday that the newspaper would operate with greater autonomy from its corporate parent in Chicago as it tried to reverse steep declines in circulation and revenue while overcoming the trauma of recent staff cuts.
He is the newspaper's fourth publisher since it was acquired in 2000 by Chicago-based Tribune Co., but the first with Southern California roots to hold the job since Otis Chandler, whose family controlled the paper for more than a century, resigned the post in 1980.
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| Pew's Latest Survey: More Bad News for Newspapers | | .August 18, 2008 | "The always-interesting results of the biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press were released Sunday afternoon. Findings on TV news and online-only news produced a few surprises (follow to come), but on the newspaper front the indications were mainly negative, especially on the print front, but also in some aspects of newspapers on the Web."
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| | Uh-oh, Where Did Those Newspaper Web Ads Go? | | .August 18, 2008 | "File this under 'It can always get worse.' Amid the constant stream of circulation declines, vanishing ads and staff reductions that have afflicted print newspapers, some major publishers are seeing online-revenue declines for the first time."
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| DirecTV Pioneer to Take Times Reins | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 16, 2008 | Eddy Hartenstein, the former head of satellite television provider DirecTV, will become the new publisher of the Los Angeles Times on Monday.
Hartenstein said Friday that he would fill the post vacated when publisher David Hiller resigned July 14, the same day parent company Tribune Co. began implementing the latest round of staff cutbacks at the paper.
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| | Tribune Cuts 40 More in Newsroom | | Chicago TribuneAugust 16, 2008 | The Chicago Tribune shed more than 40 newsroom employees Friday, which, coupled with last week's voluntary exit of more than 30 journalists, means 80 editorial jobs have been eliminated as part of a cost-cutting campaign at all of parent Tribune Co.'s newspapers.
The latest round of cuts is the paper's fourth since late 2005, when the newsroom was said to have had 670 positions.
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| CNHI Names Dabney Publisher | | Claremore Daily ProgressAugust 16, 2008 | Aug. 16--Bailey Dabney was already a veteran newspaperman when he was invited to speak at a convention
At that point, the South Carolina native had worked at newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia and Missouri.
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| | Media & Marketing: Gannett to Cut 1,000 Jobs Amid Ad-Revenue Woes | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 15, 2008 | Gannett Co. said Thursday it is cutting 1,000 newspaper jobs, or about 3% of its newspaper division's work force, another sign that the newspaper industry's cost-cutting hasn't kept pace with its falling revenue.
The balance will come largely from not filling vacancies and retirements.
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| Latino Media Expect Political Ad Windfall | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 15, 2008 | Spanish-language broadcasters in the U.S. project their political advertising sales will soar this year as the presidential candidates woo Latinos in states that have a chance to tip the election.
"We are significant players in the battleground states," said Philip Wilkinson, chief operating officer of Entravision Communications Corp., owner of 51 Spanish-language television stations.
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| | Newspaper Receives a Makeover | | Statesville Record & LandmarkAugust 14, 2008 | Aug. 14--Fran Farrer's first issue of The County News brought some major changes.
In the first issue the newspaper's new owner and publisher oversaw, she tried to make an impression on the communities it serves.
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| BRIEF: Orlando Spanish-Language Newspaper to Close | | South Florida Sun-SentinelAugust 14, 2008 | Aug. 14--SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- El Nuevo Dia Orlando, a free Spanish-language newspaper, will shut down Aug. 29, its parent company said Thursday.
The closure of the Ferre Rangel Group paper that is published on weekdays will affect about 50 employees, said company spokesman Jose Serra.
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| | Western Media Step Up Their Criticism of China Reporter's Detention, Tight Control Stir Up Division Over Freedom | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 14, 2008 | BEIJING -- Frustrations are escalating between the Western media and Chinese officials over the government's handling of the Olympic Games, reflecting deeper divisions over this country's policies.
Tensions bubbled to the surface Thursday at a daily news conference when several reporters confronted Olympics officials over the rough handling of a British television journalist by Chinese security forces, and over why the government hasn't approved applications to demonstrate in specially designated protest zones.
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| Cox Enterprises to sell all but 3 newspaper holdings | | .August 14, 2008 | Cox Enterprises, the Atlanta-based media conglomerate that built a multibillion-dollar business from a single Ohio newspaper, announced Wednesday that it plans to sell all but three of its newspaper holdings.
The company will retain flagship newspapers in Dayton, Ohio; West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Atlanta â?" including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution â?" but sell dozens of daily and weekly newspapers in Colorado, North Carolina and Texas.
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| | Media & Marketing: Tribune Swings to Loss, But Reduces Some Debt | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 14, 2008 | A $3.8 billion accounting charge dragged Tribune Co. to a second-quarter loss, but the company made an unexpected dent in its nearly $13 billion debt load.
All eyes are on Mr. Zell's efforts to remake the company as deteriorating newspaper advertising strains its ability to keep pace with its debt.
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| | Publisher of Central Illinois Newspapers Posts Loss, Suspends Dividends | | Journal StarAugust 09, 2008 | Aug. 9--PEORIA -- GateHouse Media Inc., parent of the Journal Star and several other central Illinois newspapers, said it will maintain its business strategy despite another loss in the second quarter that overshadowed revenue growth.
GateHouse, based in Fairport, N.Y., posted an operating loss of $429.7 million, or $7.77 a share, during the second quarter, compared with a loss of $1.96 million, or 5 cents a share, in the second quarter of 2007.
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| Publisher Writes Down Online Ad Stakes | | Chicago TribuneAugust 12, 2008 | McClatchy Co. wrote down the book value of its stake in Classified Ventures LLC, indicating the online ad initiative begun as a way of capturing lost ad sales is stumbling.
In a regulatory filing Monday, McClatchy valued its 25.6 percent in Classified Ventures at $86.5 million at the end of June, down 13 percent from December.
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| | Net Income Falls at Liberty Media | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 12, 2008 | Liberty Media Corp. said its second-quarter revenue rose in each of its three business units, including QVC and its Starz pay television operations, but operating income was flat.
Combined revenue grew 13.4% to $2.49 billion, while net income at the three entities, which have different tracking stocks, fell 88% to $125 million, down from $1.01 billion a year earlier.
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| | Media & Marketing: Mainstream Media Notes Enquirer Scoop | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 11, 2008 | For most of the 10 months since allegations of former Sen. John Edwards's extramarital affair appeared in the National Enquirer, the story was marginalized, partly because much of the media has a dismissive attitude toward the publication that broke it.
They ignored the story at their peril, forgetting that amid the unflattering celebrity photos and overblown headlines, the Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid owned by publisher American Media Inc. has a track record of scoops, including some about politics.
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| 3 to Receive Media Icons Award | | Tulsa WorldAugust 10, 2008 | Aug. 10--THREE MEDIA LEGENDS -- Tom Goodgame, Mary Hargrove and Ken Greenwood -- will be honored as Media Icons during an awards presentation Aug. 27 at the Tulsa Press Club, 425 S. Boulder Ave.
"This particular group of honorees is about as solidly recognized in media as they come," said the event's co-chairman Stan Whiteford.
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