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8 things Cleveland can expect from The Plain Dealer’s ‘press-ageddon’
And only one of them is good
By Rebecca Theim Dec 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM
(Editor's note: This post originally ran on Cleveland Scene. For background, here's a post from yesterday on Cleveland's newspaper crisis... More
Plain Dealer announces reduced print delivery, creation of new digital company
No layoffs—yet—at Advance’s paper in Cleveland
By Anna Clark Apr 4, 2013 at 01:11 PM
DETROIT, MI -- Ever since owner Advance Publications notified staff at the Cleveland Plain Dealer of looming layoffs late last... More
The Advocate raids the Picayune
Major defections from the New Orleans paper intensify a newspaper war
By Ryan Chittum May 8, 2013 at 04:36 PM
I wrote this last week about the South Louisiana newspaper war: "It will also not have a hard time poaching... More
The Advocate vs. the Times-Picayune
A New Orleans businessman fires up the newspaper war with the Newhouses
By Ryan Chittum Apr 30, 2013 at 11:59 PM
The Louisiana newspaper war just got a lot more interesting. It's been a poorly kept secret in New Orleans media... More
Advance to nowhere
Newhouse-owned chain slogs forward with discredited free-news model, now in Cleveland
By Dean Starkman Apr 4, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Advance Publications's announcement today on the future of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was less dramatic than the one a year... More
Audit Notes: Plain Dealer, Silicon Valley openness, debt and borrowing
Cleveland execs trot out the Advance Publications talking points
By Ryan Chittum Apr 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose slogan not so long ago was "Miss a day, miss a lot," will go to... More
Audit Notes: Bloomberg apologizes, Snow Fall re-imagined, Carr on Advance
Winkler admits reporters should never have had access to customer data
By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg News has gotten a big black eye for snooping on its customers, and Editor-In-Chief Matt Winkler apologizes in a... More
Audit Notes: Fox tout, Newhouses’ interior decorators, stocks and flows
MarketWatch outs a corporate cousin’s contributor as a shill
By Ryan Chittum Jun 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
MarketWatch's Charles Jaffe busts a contributor to corporate cousin Fox Business for taking big bucks to tout penny stocks. Jaffe... 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: The Times-Picayune, Dimon’s hubris, the QuikTrip model
Shakeups in the Louisiana newspaper war
By Ryan Chittum Mar 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Gambit's Kevin Allman reports that the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Baton Rouge bureau chief is out after six months. My long... More
Audit Notes: the anti-liquidation newspaper model, NYT on digital media doings
Ken Doctor spotlights Aaron Kushner’s investment at the OC Register
By Ryan Chittum Feb 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Ken Doctor has a fantastic post up at the Nieman Lab on the Orange County Register, which has actually been... More
Digital First goes the Newhouse route in upstate New York
In Oneida, the paper moves to three days a week, following the Post-Standard
By Ryan Chittum Jan 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The three-day-a-week newspaper model pioneered by Advance Publications in Michigan is now spreading to Digital First Media. The company will... 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
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 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’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 Advance Publications name game
The old Newhouse Pledge and the company’s corporate shuffle
By Ryan Chittum Jun 19, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Oregonian is about to get Newhouse'd. As the billionaires' Advance Publications has rolled out its newspaper-liquidation plan across the... More
The hamster wheel vs. the quality imperative
The real problem with JRC/Advance free model and the unappreciated benefit of a paywall
By Dean Starkman Sep 14, 2012 at 07:22 AM
…The great is rare; the dull quite common. But — and this is the genius of the online format... 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
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