Media

• I Hope the Rightwing Koch Bros Buy the LA Times … and Here’s Why
    I Hope the Rightwing Koch Bros Buy the LA Times … and Here’s Why   Written by Joe Mathews, City Watch LA,  [...]
• Washington Post Earnings Fall 85%, Circulation Drops 7.2% –In First Quarter of 2013
    Washington Post Earnings Fall 85%, Circulation Drops 7.2% by John Nolte, Breitbart, 5/4/13 Thanks to other businesses, including a number of television [...]
• L.A. Times Decree: There are NO Illegal Aliens—Not Even “Undocumented or Illegal Immigrant”
    L.A. Times Ban on ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Puts Everybody Else on the Spot Adam Clark Estes, Atlantic Wire,  5/1/13 The Los Angeles Times [...]
• Democrats Want Pension $$ Pulled From Tribune Company. If Koch Brothers Buy the L.A. Times
    Garcetti, Zine try to pressure Tribune over Koch rumors By Kevin Roderick, LA Observed,   4/30/13 No one knows how seriously the Koch [...]
• Koch brothers buying LAT is soooo bad it’s almost good
    Koch brothers buying LAT is soooo bad it’s almost good By Mark Lacter, LA Observed,   4/25/13 I’m trying to figure out which [...]
• Will LA Times be Returned to Honest Reporting? Stop Being a Tool of Brown/Obama?
    Report: Tribune Co. thinks Koch brothers’ bid for its papers is appealing by Andrew Beaujon, Poytner, 4/22/13 Amy Chozick confirmed Hillel Aron’s [...]
• Next Newspaper on Chopping Block: San Jose Mercury News
    Scoop: San Jose Mercury News property to be put up for sale Nathan Donato-Weinstein, Silicon Valley Business Journal, 4/15/13 The owner of [...]
• OC Register’s black hole strategy to oblivion
    OC Register’s black hole strategy By Mark Lacter, LA Observed,   4/3/13 A fine newspaper has gone underground, and I have to wonder [...]
• SF Chronicle’s New Online Fee Will Speed Readership Decline
    SF Chronicle’s New Online Fee Will Speed Readership Decline by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron,   3/26/13 The San Francisco Chronicle announced last weekend [...]
• Small Humboldt County Newspaper Exposes Arrogance and Law Breaking—Violators Upset With Exposure
    Small-town politics hinges on community newspaper’s power by Andrew Beaujon, Poynter,   2/28/13 A civic dispute in Ferndale, Calif., turns in part on [...]
• Washington Post Grows Operating Loss from $21 million to $53 Million in ONE Year
    Print advertising revenue at Washington Post was down 14% in 2012 by Andrew Beaujon, 2/22/13 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE [...]
• LA Times to cut TV grid, squeeze sports pages
    LA Times to cut TV grid, squeeze sports pages By Kevin Roderick, LA Observed,  2/21/13 The LA Times has been warning readers [...]
• McClatchy (Bee’s) reports loss—Revenues down another $100 million
    McClatchy reports loss, partly due to debt repayment McClatchy, parent company of the Sacramento Bee, said ad revenue improved and results [...]
• The Impending Demise of San Francisco Newspapers—SF Chronicle Circulation drops 50% in three years
    The Impending Demise of San Francisco Newspapers by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron,   1/14/13 Last week’s purchase of the SF Weekly by the [...]
• Communities Need Newspapers … In LA that’s the Times?
    Communities Need Newspapers … In LA that’s the Times Written by Bill Boyarsky, City Watch LA, MEDIA - The saddest part of the [...]
• Ohio Progressive Radio Station Fails, Blames Obama?
    Ohio Progressive Radio Station Fails, Blames Obama? -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum,  12/19/12 WVKO, a left-wing radio station in Columbus, Ohio, [...]
• Court Rules Reporters/Union Can Not Control News and Editorial of Newspaper
    U.S. Appeals Court Overturns NLRB Ruling in News-Press Case By Tom Bolton, Noozhawk 12/18/12 Citing First Amendment protections, a federal appeals court [...]
• Will Orange County Register Owner Buy the Bankrupt Los Angeles Times?
    Freedom Communications wants Chicago Tribune By Lynne Marek, Chicago Business,  12/12/12 The chief executive of Freedom Communications Inc. in southern California said [...]
• Dead Tree Industry Dying Quickly – NY Times Fires 30 Reporters/Cleveland Plain Dealer Fires 1/3 of Newsroom
    Big Ohio Newspaper Cutting One-Third of Newsroom By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum,   12/8/12 The Cleveland Plain Dealer is one of Ohio’s [...]
• McClatchy DEBT Increase from $700 to $750 Million—Says This is GOOD
    McClatchy taking on new debt to pay back existing $700 million Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson, 11/29/12 The McClatchy Co., which [...]
• Newspaper Revenues Collapse Over 50% In Six Years
    Newspaper Revenues Collapse Over 50% In Six Years by Breitbart News,   11/28/12 As we saw with the presidential election, the media is [...]
• What dismal earnings at The New York Times mean for the newspaper industry
    What dismal earnings at The New York Times mean for the newspaper industry by Rick Edmonds, Poynter.org,  10/26/12 Just when investor confidence [...]
• Ad sales, circulation revenue drop at McClatchy
    Ad sales, circulation revenue drop at McClatchy Central Valley Business Times,  10/25/12 •  Q3 sees net income of $5.1 Million •  [...]
• LA Times Gets Basic Information About Los Angeles Wrong
    Times doubles the size of Los Angeles in news stories By Kevin Roderick, LA Observed,  10/17/12 In its first story last week [...]
• Grimes: Media: A crisis of content?
    Media: A crisis of content? Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog,   10/7/12 A story in the Sacramento Bee Saturday reported that Israel’s liberal press is [...]
• North County Times editor to leave, 80 layoffs planned after U-T San Diego buys paper
    North County Times editor to leave, 80 layoffs planned after U-T San Diego buys paper by Andrew Beaujon,Poynter, 10/3/12 U-T San Diego [...]
• Is San Diego Paper the Future of the Media?
    Is San Diego Paper the Future of the Media? By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles, 9/28/12 Copies of the San Diego Union-Tribune are shown [...]
• L.A. Times: Spinmasters for Obama—NOT a Real newspaper any more
    L.A. Times Lays Groundwork to Explain Obama Debate Performance by Warner Todd Huston, Big Journalism,  9/27/12 The first presidential debate is only [...]
• L.A. Times Hiding Video of Obama FRIENDSHIP With Terrorist
    L.A. Times Still Refusing to Release Video of Obama’s Party With Radical Islamists -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum, 9/22/12 The L.A. [...]
• Old Media Death Watch: Internet Overtaking TV, Print as Best News Source
    Old Media Death Watch: Internet Overtaking TV, Print as Best News Source by Elizabeth Sheld, Big Journalism,  9/19/12 Yesterday, Rasmussen released survey [...]
• Why is the EPA Funding a Private Newspaper?
        Why is the EPA Funding a Private Newspaper? By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum, 9/15/12 The Environmental Protection Agency has been indulging [...]
• Consolidation in Dead Tree Industry: North County Times sold to UT San Diego
      North County Times sold to UT San Diego L.A. Biz, 9/11/12 North County Times owner Lee Enterprises Inc. has agreed to sell [...]
• More Evidence Newspaper Industry Dying: L.A. Daily News Parent Puts Subsidiary in Chapter 11
    Daily News Parent Puts Subsidiary in Chapter 11 By Jonathan Polakoff, LA Business Journal   9/5/12 Digital First Media, parent of the Los [...]
• Syracuse and Harrisburg Say Goodbye to Daily Newspapers Along With Several Other Cities
      Syracuse and Harrisburg Say Goodbye to Daily Newspapers Don Irvine, Accuracy in Media,  8/29/12 Next year, residents of Syracuse, NY and Harrisburg, [...]
• Is Ford Foundation Paying for LA Times Reporters Covering “Immigrant Population”?
      LA Times adds staff on immigrant communities and immigration By Kevin Roderick, LA Times,  8/23/12 Remember last May the Los Angeles Times [...]
• Orange County Register Sold: New Owner Wants to Expand the Paper
      One Newspaper Owner is Betting on Print By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum,  8/10/12 The new owner of the Orange County Register [...]
• Sacramento Bee eliminates positions in newsroom, elsewhere
      Sacramento Bee eliminates positions in newsroom, elsewhere Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson, 7/27/12 The Sacramento Bee has laid off a librarian [...]
• Future of Newspapers Found in New Orleans
      Three Days a Week New Orleans’s venerable newspaper goes part-time. Nicole Gelinas, City Journal,  7/10/12 On May 23, the New York Times’s David [...]
• NBC Uses Che Guevara-Loving Illegal Alien/Activist to Denounce Arizona
      NBC Uses Che Guevara-Loving Illegal Immigration Activist to Denounce Arizona -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum,  6/30/12 In a report on the [...]
• Another CA newspaper Slowly Contracting Editions
      Central Valley daily trims print publication schedule Central Valley Business Times,  6/18/12 •  Lodi News-Sentinel to drop Monday edition •  Cites [...]
• Let’s face it, newspapers were always destined to die
      Let’s face it, newspapers were always destined to die By Mark Lacter, LA Observed,  6/14/12 When I started out in the business, [...]
• Grimes: Reporter Begs to be a “Minority Victim” Instead of Qualified Journalist
    More liberal prattle: “We’re all one” By Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog, 5/21/12 Too much liberal drivel in today’s newspapers passes for news [...]
• Union Pension Agreements Killing NY Times, Bee and Other Newspapers
  The New York Times stands behinds unions—as long as they stay away from that dead tree company. In fact, the [...]
• How Bigoted is the LA Times in Its Hiring Practices?
      Los Angeles more worldly since ’92, LA Times ‘more insular’ By Kevin Roderick, LA Observed, 4/27/12 Peter Hong was a reporter at [...]
• Independent Cal Berkeley Newspaper Begging for Student Tuition $$
      UC Berkeley’s Student Paper Struggling The 141-year-old independent publication hopes student-based funding will save it By Tracey Taylor, Berkeleyside, 4/9/12 The Daily Cal, [...]
• Dead Tree Industry in Trouble: Central Valley newspapers are sold
      Central Valley newspapers are sold Central Valley Business Times,  3/29/12 •  Texas publisher buys Tracy Press, two others •  Bankruptcy Court [...]
• LA Times Skelton: Brown Tax Plan is Misleading
      Brown not shooting straight on tax plan Mark Lacter , LA Observed,  3/22/12 The governor keeps insisting that his proposal to temporarily [...]
• Seiler: L.A. Times’ Annoying Gatekeeping
      L.A. Times’ Annoying Gatekeeping John Seiler, Cal Watchdog,  3/22/12 I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times’ Sunday edition. So I get access [...]
• LA Times Continues Death Spiral Firings
      Los Angeles Times Cuts Staff Again (Exclusive) By Lucas Shaw, The Wrap, 3/20/12 The Los Angeles Times let go more [...]
• Seiler: L.A. Times Attempting Suicide
        L.A. Times Attempting Suicide By JOHN SEILER, CalWatchdog, 3/5/12 Today the Los Angeles Times is charging for visiting its site online. This [...]
• Why Buy a Newspaper with News 24 Hours Old—and on Twitter?
      Business Update on KPCC: Will the LAT paywall make money? Mark Lacter, LA Observed,  2/29/12 To some extent, sure. The question is [...]
• Los Angeles Times Prepares to Go Behind a Paywall
          Los Angeles Times Prepares to Go Behind a Paywall LAIst, 2/24/12 Sorry freeloaders, you’ve only got a little over a [...]
• Newspapers Publishing “Public Notices”–Gov’t Subsidizing the Media
      Newspapers: “It’s Not About the Money” By Lynne LaMaster, Intellectual Conservative,  2/16/12 The Arizona legislature is considering a bill, HB [...]
• Seiler: People. vs Corporations–People Win–Internet Shoots Down Censorship
  Internet Shoots Down Censorship John Seiler, Cal Watchdog, 1/21/12 Sometimes you win one. This week, the Good Guys won a Big [...]
• Capitol Weekly suspends print edition, goes web only–Dailies Next?
  Capitol Weekly suspends print edition, goes web only Kevin Roderick, LA Observed,  1/17/12 The Sacramento-oriented weekly published by the York family [...]
• Newsweek: Poster Child of Media Bias
  Newsweek magazine asks: ‘Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?’ By Alex Pappas, Daily Caller,  1/15/2012 If you’re a critic of President Obama, [...]
• Spanish TV wants hand outs instead of the free market
  Financial Woes Threaten to Take Central Coast’s Only Spanish TV News Show Off the Air Advocates of Noticias Univision Costa Central [...]
• LA Times LOSES 21% Circulation Since March, 2009
  People are voting on their trust and credibility in the LA Times–they have voted NO.  As the Times continues supporting [...]
• LA Times, George Skelton: Liberal, Wanting Deficits and Tax Increases
  Judging ‘The Sage of Sacramento’ By JOHN SEILER, Cal Watchdog, 12/03/11 “The Sage of Sacramento,” CalBuzz dubbed L.A. Times columnist George Skelton. [...]
• Will San Diego Union-Tribune Go OnLine ONLY–No Print Edition?
  Douglas Manchester Confirms Interest in San Diego Union-Tribune By Matthew Fleischer, Fishbowl LA,  11/7/11 Last week we told you that the San [...]
• LA Times: Circulation Continues Drop–More Layoffs
  New round of belt-tightening at L.A. Times Kevin Roderick, LA Observed, 11/3/11 According to a couple of independent newsroom sources, Los Angeles [...]
• *LAT circulation keeps falling–From One Million to Under 600,000
  *LAT circulation keeps falling Mark Lacter, LA Observed, 11/1/11 Daily is 573,000 for the six months ended Sept. 30, down more than [...]
• Obama Administration Stopping Tax Exempt Status for New Investigative Blogs
  Nonprofit News Outlets Face Long Waits for IRS Approval By Suzanne Perry, Chronicle Philanthropy,  10/13/11 When SF Public Press, a nonprofit news [...]
• LA Times: Three Years Till it Closes?
  Paper Tiger: Q&A With L.A. Times Pressman Ed Padgett by Steven Mikulan, Frypannews,  9/23/11 Ed Padgett works as a pressman at the [...]