Wall Street Journal Goes Hitless
(Crain’s) — This may have been a good year for circulation at The Wall Street Journal, but it’s been a lousy year for prestige. The nation’s largest weekday paper was completely shut out this week in...
View ArticleExaminer Finds Fraud Evidence in Tribune Sale
(Chicago Sun Times) — An examiner probing Sam Zell’s buyout of the Tribune Co. in late 2007 has found evidence of “dishonesty” in the deal’s latter stages, a conclusion that could throw the company’s...
View ArticleWashington Post May Face Downgrade
(Washington Business Journal) — Moody’s Investors Service may downgrade its Washington Post Co. credit ratings because potential changes in student loan guidelines could curtail business for its...
View ArticleBankruptcy Judge Gives Tribune More Time
(Chicago Sun Times) — A Delaware judge has agreed to again extend deadlines in the Tribune Co.’s bankruptcy as the company continues negotiating with creditors. The judge moved several deadlines in the...
View ArticleWashington Post to Run First Front Page Ad Sunday
(Washington Business Journal) — For the first time in the Washington Post’s history, the publication will run an advertisement on the paper’s front page this Sunday. McLean-based Capital One Financial...
View ArticleForget the Denials. It’s War for Times, WSJ
(Crain’s) — One recent sunday, The New York Times went after Rupert Murdoch in a way I hope he admired. The investigation of voicemail hacking by Murdoch’s News of the World belied Arthur Ochs...
View ArticleFor a Few, Papers Seem a Timely Bet
(New York Times) — Randall D. Smith, a pioneer in the hard knocks business of vulture investing, is circling a new target: the beleaguered newspaper industry. Mr. Smith puts money into risky...
View ArticleBlack Publisher Files Complaint Over School District’s Call for Ad Boycott
(New American Media) — James Tucker, publisher of the African American Voice, the city’s only Black newspaper, has asked the federal government to stop a local school district from advocating an...
View ArticleCan Group Buying Save the Newspaper Business?
(Daily Finance) — Although many media pundits have declared that newspapers are in a death spiral, group buying may — just may — have an antidote. Let’s jump through the math. In 2009, the Newspaper...
View ArticleBlacks Stage Protest Against the Chicago Sun Times
(Chicago Now) — On Tuesday, Dec. 28th at 12 Noon a cross section of leadership from the Black coommunity will stage a public demonstration and press conference against the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper...
View ArticleBraun Lashes Out at Sun-Times’ Steinberg
(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayoral hopeful Carol Moseley Braun lashed out against Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg on Wednesday in response to a column criticizing the former U.S. senator. “He is...
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