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1. June 22, 2012 06:50 AM

   “Prophet of Katrina” stays put

   Times-Picayune’s ace environment reporter sticks with Nola Media Group

   By Curtis Brainard

   The man The New York Times called “a prophet of Katrina’s wrath” for his prescient coverage of New Orleans’ vulnerability to hurricanes and flooding has decided to stick with the city’s beleaguered newspaper. On Tuesday, Mark Schleifstein, the Times-Picayune’s environment reporter for the last 28 years, accepted a job offer from the new Nola Media Group, which was formed in...

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2. June 20, 2012 06:50 AM

   Another A1 Times-Picayune press release

   This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom

   By Ryan Chittum

   Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran an awfully similar piece by the new publisher on page one Sunday headlined "The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com are here to stay." As if the Times-Pic needed to remind New Orleanians that its absentee owners have brought in an outsider to...

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3. May 25, 2012 11:09 AM

   David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts

   By David Simon

   It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows hard and goes behind a paywall. The New York Times has shown us the end of the beginning; they've embraced the paywall and they are seeing significant revenue. The Washington Post, LA Times, others have to follow. Once the content...

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4. June 13, 2012 10:43 AM

   Heresy on the bayou (updated)

   Times-Picayune drops its restaurant critic

   By Brent Cunningham

   More than the news that it would no longer publish every day; more than the rumor that those left in the newsroom will be compensated, in part, based on the traffic their stories generate; more than the dismay of learning that industry “upheaval,” as one newsroom executive put it, could decimate an outlet that Hurricane Katrina could not… The news...

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5. July 20, 2012 06:50 AM

   How to worry about a clicks-driven Times-Picayune

   A departing reporter's worst-case fears

   By Sarah Carr

   If clicks drove coverage at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans —a more realistic prospect than it’s ever been—what kind of publication would we get? We can look at past traffic and get a rough answer: In a doomsday scenario, we would read only about sex, sports, crime, and more crime. The most clicked on stories in the month of June,...

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6. June 7, 2012 06:50 AM

   New Orleans and the future of news

   Media policy matters, and journalists ought to weigh in

   By Josh Stearns

   Last week’s announcement that the New Orleans Times-Picayune would be slashing its staff and cutting its print run to just three days a week has sparked a new round of debates about the future of news. But one piece has been missing in this discussion: the role of media policy. Will Bunch, senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News and...

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7. July 30, 2012 12:30 PM

   New Orleans gets a new Reporter

   NewOrleansReporter.org is one of several news initiatives that will pick up the slack in a post-daily Picayune world

   By Sara Morrison

   News-hungry New Orleanians, take heart: The hole in the city's news scene the cuts to the Times-Picayune's newsroom and print distribution are expected to leave when they take effect (barring a last-minute purchase of the paper) will be filled by no less than three news initiatives, all announced last week. NewOrleansReporter.org, a partnership between the University of New Orleans and...

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8. June 14, 2012 06:50 AM

   New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel

   The fall of the Times-Picayune

   By Ryan Chittum

   The gutting of New Orleans beloved Times-Picayune and Advance Publications' plan to turn it into a sort of major market AnnArbor.com looks set to bring journalism built on "motion for motion’s sake... volume without thought" to a city built on doing the opposite. For the Newhouses, who own the Times-Pic, the Hamster Wheel is a business model—one the absentee chain...

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9. June 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Sometimes Picayune

   Want to damage New Orleans (again)? Decimate its newspaper

   By Harry Shearer

   Here, for your reading pleasure, are two familiar cliches: 1. New Orleans is a unique city. 2. The newspaper business is changing. Several days ago, when it was announced that The Times-Picayune would get out of the daily print newspaper business, the second cliche kicked the first one’s ass. This makes no sense to me. There’s more to that first...

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