One of the saddest — and beautiful — pieces of journalism I’ve read is this one by Kevin Vaughan of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News that will be shut down today — nearly 138 years after its first issue on April…
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Can Newspapers Survive in Online-only Formats?
Whenever the survival of newspapers comes up for discussion — very frequently these days — within minutes someone is likely to suggest that they simply cut out their daily hard copy editions, and go to online-formats. Taking the San Francisco…
Chronicle on the Precipice
The announcement that the San Francisco Chronicle could be shut down within months should surprise no one. In March or April 2001, I had lunch with John Oppedahl, then-publisher of the Chronicle, at the M-Point, a restaurant a block away…
Extreme Makeover — San Francisco Edition
While Rome burns — the San Francisco Chronicle has decided to give itself a paint job. That’s how Editor Ward Bushee described the radical face lift that the San Francisco Chronicle revealed to its readers beginning in its Sunday paper….
Newspaper Davids and Goliaths Fight Same Adversaries
This year’s meager snowfall in the High Sierra is exacerbating the toll our sinking economy is taking on communities in the mountains — and their newspapers.That’s what I discovered when I went up to Lake Tahoe over the weekend to…
