Monthly Archives: August 2009

Couldn’t Be Happier

The New York Times is the latest to look into what the future might bring for the top ranks of the Tribune Company. The short version: Many of the top managers could remain even after the company emerges from bankruptcy. Even Sam might stay, though it sounds as though that is far from certain. Quoting [...]

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By Logical Extension

Denis Horgan has managed to put into words what a lot of people (none of them at Tribune, I suspect) have been thinking: I wonder if it is too soon to simply insist that the top leadership of the Courant should be replaced. Immediately. What more fundamental considerations as the newspaper’s very credibility, ethics and [...]

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The Courant Responds

The JI’s story about the Courant’s use of other paper’s stories apparently hit home on Broad Street. After telling the JI that the Courant’s publisher would not comment, the Courant posted a statement from Content Director Jeff Levine on its website saying there were “legitimate points of concern” and citing “a mistake in our editing [...]

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More Aggregation Aggravation

The JI has checked in on the issue of whether the Courant is within its rights to “aggregate” content from other local newspapers in large amounts, with — and sometimes without — attribution. This report is distressing on several levels: First, that the Courant put itself in this position because it didn’t want to have to [...]

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