How Katrina and BP spill coverage defined NOLA as the two events, in turn, shaped local press A review of Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and The Deepwater Horizon Disaster July 17, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts
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
“Prophet of Katrina” stays put June 22, 2012 By Curtis Brainard Times-Picayune’s ace environment reporter sticks with Nola Media Group
