Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper sales fall record $3B in 6 mos. (4)
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Marc Andreessen bookmarked a page on delicious Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper sales fall record $3B in 6 mos. 10:33 am - Comment
I Never Promised You An Olive Garden (2)
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Last week, a journalist named James Wilkerson stumbled on a small but silly news story in the online archives of the Sioux City Journal. The December 2006 story, full of purple prose and unchecked anticipation, breathlessly reported on the opening of the town's first Olive Garden. “A martini is not a martini without an olive,"...
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SWVL said:
@Z: hahaha this is great! reading the original article, i think that the guy's claim that he intended at least some of the ironic content is plausible...
Boston's Number One in Transit Savings (3)
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The American Public Transit Association (APTA) has ranked Boston first on its most recent list of cities where you can save money by taking public transportation. (We beat NYC by $5 per month--that'll buy a Guinness!) The APTA compiles the list regularly, based on the cost of a monthly transit pass, local parking prices, current gas prices (in this study, $3.678 per gallon, assuming an average 23.4 mpg and 15,000 miles of driving per year), ...
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Zach said:
first in savings, last in anatomically correct mascots...
CJR: Attitude Adjustment (1)
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Publishers take note: circulation at Consumer Reports, the flagship of consumer journalism, is rising impressively. Its dead-tree edition now sells nearly 4.5 million copies a month, up 15 percent from 2005. Newsstand sales run to more than 189,000 copies a month, up two-thirds in two years. The online edition has more than three million paid subscribers, far more than even The Wall Street Journal, many of whose subscribers put the cost on their expense accounts. ...
Sarah Palin’s Alaskan National Guard Kills Canucks, In Afghanistan (3)
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Order has been restored once again (1)
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In Harvard Square. Sort of. Construction on that “super-crosswalk” is just about finished.
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Zach said:
the bridge to nowhere...
Is the New York ‘Sun’ Finally Setting? I Hope Not -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine (1)
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On the morning of Semptember 23, 2003, it was pouring rain. I was walking to my first day of paid work in journalism, as a news assistant to the editor-in-chief of the New York Sun, Seth Lipsky. To say that I was nervous would be an understatement — I had already heard that Lipsky was gruff and a challenge to work for. But I was determined to make the perfect impression. During my job search, ...
A Market Decline in Search of a Reason (2)
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A broad sell-off sent the Dow Jones industrial average down 230 points in morning trading, but few investors seemed to know why.
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SWVL said:
this hed is mad literary!
"Too Liberal" Paper "Retires" Black Columnist (1)
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New Jersey's Bergen Record Ousts Lawrence Aaron The Record, a suburban New York newspaper in Bergen County, N.J., whose publisher believes readers perceive it as "too liberal," has dismissed its only African American columnist and portrayed it as a "retirement." read more
Ripe for the Plucking (1)
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I get asked a lot about the relationship between old media and new media, on the editorial and publishing side. And my usual line is that I think the relationship is much more symbiotic and convergent than people often realize. But when folks ask what scrappy little outfits like TPM would do if the big papers with their cadres of reporters went under, I have to wonder, what would big papers like the Washington Post ...
Ripe for the Plucking (6)
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I get asked a lot about the relationship between old media and new media, on the editorial and publishing side. And my usual line is that I think the relationship is much more symbiotic and convergent than people often realize. But when folks ask what scrappy little outfits like TPM would do if the big papers with their cadres of reporters went under, I have to wonder, what would big papers like the Washington Post ...
Snap Judgment: TV on the Radio usher in a "Golden Age" (2)
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And, the medal for fastest rapper to name-check Usain Bolt goes to... (2)
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3AM Calls (4)
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Jacob Heilbrunn and Brian Katulis talk about why the combination of our weak intelligence and Pakistan’s shaky state apparatus mean the next president’s “3AM call” will likely be about Pakistan. On the other hand, imagine the nightmare scenario in which Matchbox 20 turns against the United States prompting the ultimate 3AM call: It’s truly a chilling possibility, and not one that I think either party has addressed adequately.
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jschultz said:
I love when otherwise serious blogs throw in a little deadpan hilarity. (Is "deadpan hilarity" an oxymoron?)
Former staff starts independent newspaper after college postpones printing (1)
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GEORGIA — As students returned to classes Monday at Macon State College, they found the bins of their student newspaper, The Matrix, empty, but with former editors nearby distributing copies of an independent paper, The Student Free Press.
The Text Message (2)
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Announcing a running mate via text messages is only the latest indication that the Obama campaign is really the first 21st century campaign in American politics. Not only is it an absolutely brilliant way to have active voters volunteer what is probably their most reliable contact info (you can gloss over an email, ignore a call via caller ID, but text messages cry out to be read), but it also provides the campaign with an ...
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Sarah Palin’s speech was so nasty that she started shooting Canadian troops. Why would she do that? [Extreme Mortman]Contribute commentEditor And Publisher - Breaking News (5) permalink
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TV on the Radio's last album was — to greatly oversimplify a complex work of art — a moving meditation on the fate of human warmth in a time of conflict. Or maybe I misunderstood all those lyrics and it...Shared by Sarah (20) Zach (11)Contribute comment
