Daily Archives: February 26, 2010

Bankruptcy Slide Show Addendum

Courant.com has a slide show featuring photos of a host of Connecticut companies that have entered bankruptcy. The list is missing at least one local firm, however, so I am including it here:

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Bringing The Heat

Former Courant consumer columnist George Gombossy is bringing the heat on his ex-employer. Based on George’s reporting, a Superior Court judge is challenging the rates the newspaper charges for public foreclosure notices. Gombossy reports that the Courant charges $1,431 for an ad that costs $158 in the Middletown Press. Something tells me that the Connecticut [...]

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‘Some Will Get Raises, Many Not’

From: Tribune Communications Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:01 PM Subject: Message from Randy and Gerry/Compensation in 2010       Over the last two years we’ve made a lot of progress—stabilizing our businesses, redesigning our newspapers and expanding our local news programming, managing expenses, improving our technology infrastructure, launching new products and obtaining great programming [...]

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The Future Is Mobile

I’m around a lot of college students these days, and I’ve noticed they are way more into their cell phones than they are email. That’s why this article about the future of journalism rings true. Here’s a significant excerpt: Going by Gartner’s prediction, newspapers have just 18-24 months to position themselves as the leading news [...]

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