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“Prophet of Katrina” stays put
Times-Picayune’s ace environment reporter sticks with Nola Media Group
By Curtis Brainard Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The man The New York Times called “a prophet of Katrina’s wrath” for his prescient coverage of New Orleans’ vulnerability... More
Another A1 Times-Picayune press release
This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran... More
Audit Notes: Smart Money, NYT CEO, sushi chefs and nola.com
Dow Jones lays off staff and goes all-digital with its personal-finance magazine
By Ryan Chittum Jun 21, 2012 at 09:22 PM
Dow Jones is shutting down Smart Money magazine, laying off most of the staff and going to a digital-only format... More
Audit Notes: Gore gorges, 60 Minutes in New Orleans, Wired
The former vice president twists arms and cashes in on Current TV
By Ryan Chittum Jan 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Read Brian Stelter's excellent coverage in The New York Times of Al Gore's role in building and selling Current TV:... More
Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked
A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM
—Can we agree at this point that Advance Publications’s attempt to sell its plans for dramatic newsroom cuts and... More
Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay
The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along
By Ryan Chittum Sep 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Times-Picayune plans to move into Baton Rouge to hit back at the Advocate's move into New Orleans. But publisher... More
David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts
By David Simon May 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM
It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows... More
Facing up to the high cost of free news
Is there a quality argument to support the digital ads-only model?
By Dean Starkman Oct 8, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Pretty soon, proponents of free digital news will have to own up to the implications of their model. The... More
Heresy on the bayou (updated)
Times-Picayune drops its restaurant critic
By Brent Cunningham Jun 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM
More than the news that it would no longer publish every day; more than the rumor that those left in... More
How to worry about a clicks-driven Times-Picayune
A departing reporter’s worst-case fears
By Sarah Carr Jul 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
If clicks drove coverage at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans —a more realistic prospect than it’s ever been—what kind of... More
In Cleveland, bracing for a free-news fallout
Fear and loathing at The Plain Dealer
By Dean Starkman Dec 12, 2012 at 03:10 PM
Cleveland Scene magazine ran a fine, overlooked story on the ticking clock at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, as journalists and readers... More
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 Jul 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM
News-hungry New Orleanians, take heart: The hole in the city's news scene the cuts to the Times-Picayune's newsroom and print... More
New Orleans meets the Hamster Wheel
The fall of the Times-Picayune
By Ryan Chittum Jun 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The gutting of New Orleans beloved Times-Picayune and Advance Publications' plan to turn it into a sort of major market... More
The Times-Picayune cuts staff and print runs
Read CJR coverage on the history of the paper, a vital resource in its region, here
By Kira Goldenberg May 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM
The news hit late Wednesday night that the storied New Orleans Times-Picayune, the newspaper that served as a community rock... More
The Times-Picayune’s front-page press release
Advance Publication’s Alabama papers take even worse hits than New Orleans
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
You know the backlash is serious when the Times-Picayune wraps itself in Katrina and puts a press release/editorial by the... More
The Louisiana newspaper war
The Advocate picks up 23,500 readers in less than three months in New Orleans
By Ryan Chittum Dec 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Baton Rouge Advocate is making a run at a weakened Times-Picayune in New Orleans. The paper, which started a... More
The Newhouses strike back
The Times-Picayune goes to war with the encroaching Baton Rouge Advocate
By Ryan Chittum Sep 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM
After Advance Publications announced it would gut the still-profitable New Orleans Times-Picayune's newsroom and slash publication to three days a... More
The Sometimes Picayune
Want to damage New Orleans (again)? Decimate its newspaper
By Harry Shearer Jun 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Here, for your reading pleasure, are two familiar cliches: 1. New Orleans is a unique city. 2. The newspaper business... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
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