Monthly Archives: January 2009

We Saw This Coming, Didn’t We?

The LA Times is cutting staff again, this time taking an estimated 70 jobs out of its news department. The signs of additional financial distress are industrywide, and there doesn’t appear to be any upturn in sight. The good news, if you can call it that, is at the end of the LA Times story [...]

A Bahstan Blaggah

What do newspaper writers do when they are out of work? They blog.  I am Exhibit A. Jeff Goldberg is also now in the game with his new blog, cleverly named Outta The Pahk. It’s about the Red Sox and UConn Huskies, primarily — subjects he is more than a little familiar with. I’ve added [...]

New Leadership For Courant.com

I guess I’m a couple days late on this, but here’s the latest: Naedine Hazell, who has brilliantly handled the Courant’s Features and Business News departments, has been named to head Courant.com; and Gina Seay will rise to handle Features. Here’s Bobbie Roessner’s memo: To the staff:     I’m truly excited to announce that Naedine [...]

Argument No. 1 Against Junk Journalism

Looks like Tribune’s Big Thinker missed a little detail in is latest inspirational memo. It’s the kind of thing that can happen to a big picture person maybe.

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