In the final days of 2008, a year filled with bad news about the newspaper industry, Paul Mulshine, a columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger, has penned a ringing defense of newspapers, and the reporting only they are able to do.Or…
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
California dreamer?
Dean Singleton is still digging for gold.The CEO of MediaNews still believes that the newspaper business in California will turn around. And some of that belief is based on a view that things always work out in California. “California has…
A revenue milestone at LATimes.com?
The Los Angeles Times has achieved a significant milestone: the revenue of its website, LATimes.com, now exceeds its editorial payroll costs.That is what editor Russ Stanton reportedly claimed at a gathering at the USC Annenberg School for Communication last week…
Shared bylines and non-profit journalism
It’s not often one has reason to mention the New York Times and the Merced Sun-Star in the same breath.So listen up.They are both on the cutting edge of new journalism collaborations that would have been unthinkable a few years…
More on Berkeley schools and air pollution study
My son is a fourth grader at Berkwood Hedge School, as referenced in Louis’ post below, one of the Berkeley schools rated most endangered by industrial air pollution in California in the recent series in USA Today. What’s interesting, from…
