How Katrina and BP spill coverage defined NOLA as the two events, in turn, shaped local press July 17, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts A review of Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
The Hamster Wheel is institutionalized at the Oregonian March 25, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Newhouse-owned outlet imposes a digital quota
Tracking digital-era news quality declines January 14, 2014 By Dean Starkman A Tulane student project tracks the Times-Picayune before and after a digital overhaul
Best of 2013: Ryan Chittum December 24, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A look back at some of my favorite posts this year
Audit Notes: Top execs skate again, blame regulators!, Times-Picayune tabloidism September 20, 2013 By Ryan Chittum NYT’s DealBook asks why regulators let Jamie Dimon & Co. off the hook
Audit Notes: Adjunct poverty, Reuters flops, NOLA.com impact September 18, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A longtime professor at Duquesne dies in squalor
The Advance Publications name game June 19, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The old Newhouse Pledge and the company’s corporate shuffle
Exclusive survey: A year out, Times-Pic downsizing leaves bitterness, scorn among ex-, current employees June 14, 2013 By Rebecca Theim Harsh words for management and the Newhouse family
Audit Notes: Bloomberg apologizes, Snow Fall re-imagined, Carr on Advance May 13, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Winkler admits reporters should never have had access to customer data
The Advocate raids the Picayune May 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Major defections from the New Orleans paper intensify a newspaper war
The Advocate vs. the Times-Picayune April 30, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A New Orleans businessman fires up the newspaper war with the Newhouses
Audit Notes: Bagged Men, whistleblowers, Times-Picayune April 25, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Rupert Murdoch, prepare your checkbook
Advance to nowhere April 4, 2013 By Dean Starkman Newhouse-owned chain slogs forward with discredited free-news model, now in Cleveland
Plain Dealer announces reduced print delivery, creation of new digital company April 4, 2013 By Anna Clark No layoffs–yet–at Advance’s paper in Cleveland
Audit Notes: The Times-Picayune, Dimon’s hubris, the QuikTrip model March 28, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Shakeups in the Louisiana newspaper war
Audit Notes: paywall time machine, Times-Picayune, Elizabeth Warren March 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum What digital subscriptions could have done for newspapers a decade ago
An eye on the Times-Picayune‘s numbers February 22, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Some questions about what executives say are positive circulation trends
Audit Notes: the anti-liquidation newspaper model, NYT on digital media doings February 4, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Ken Doctor spotlights Aaron Kushner’s investment at the OC Register
Audit Notes: New Orleans newspaper intrigue, NYT numbers, CNET January 29, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Manships are in talks about selling The Advocate
Digital First goes the Newhouse route in upstate New York January 17, 2013 By Ryan Chittum In Oneida, the paper moves to three days a week, following the Post-Standard
Audit Notes: Gore gorges, 60 Minutes in New Orleans, Wired January 7, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The former vice president twists arms and cashes in on Current TV
The Louisiana newspaper war December 21, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Advocate picks up 23,500 readers in less than three months in New Orleans
In Cleveland, bracing for a free-news fallout December 12, 2012 By Dean Starkman Fear and loathing at The Plain Dealer
Facing up to the high cost of free news October 8, 2012 By Dean Starkman Is there a quality argument to support the digital ads-only model?
Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay September 25, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along
The Newhouses strike back September 21, 2012 By Ryan Chittum The Times-Picayune goes to war with the encroaching Baton Rouge Advocate
New Orleans gets a new Reporter July 30, 2012 By Sara Morrison NewOrleansReporter.org is one of several news initiatives that will pick up the slack in a post-daily Picayune world
Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked July 26, 2012 By Dean Starkman A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.
How to worry about a clicks-driven Times-Picayune July 20, 2012 By Sarah Carr A departing reporter’s worst-case fears