by Bob DeMay | Mar 23, 2009 | Industry News
The Saginaw News, The Flint Journal, and The Bay City Times will no longer be on a daily print cycle and will publish only on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays as of June 1. All three publications are owned by Advance Publications, who is also closing the Ann Arbor...
by Bob DeMay | Mar 22, 2009 | Industry News, Obituaries
Marci Piltz, a (Ravenna) Record-Courier reporter, died tragically on Thursday afternoon March 19, 2009 following a house fire in Randolph, Ohio. Marci was a devoted mother, her boys, Alex and Zachery, meant everything to her. Marci was an honest and diligent...
by Bob DeMay | Mar 22, 2009 | Industry News
Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s 2009 Best Of Photojournalism competition will start Sunday at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL.This year 3,700 journalists from 147...
by Bob DeMay | Mar 17, 2009 | Industry News |
On the heels of the closing of the Rocky Mountain News the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has stopped the presses. As had been speculated the 146-year-old Seattle daily will now deliver the news online only, a move the entire industry will be watching closely.The newsroom...
by Bob DeMay | Mar 13, 2009 | Industry News
Under the radar of recent headlines of large metro papers across the country giving Associated Press their two year cancellation notice, the Norwalk (OH) Reflector was ahead of the trend. They gave their notice two years ago and are three weeks into life without AP....
by Bob DeMay | Mar 13, 2009 | Industry News
The Newspaper Guild, representing newsroom employees at The (Toledo) Blade, will meet with company representatives today to explore layoff alternatives at the newspaper. The union was unsuccessful in obtaining buyouts in December when the newsroom was trimmed by 20...
