5 posts and columns on Editor & Publisher

All The News We’ll Pay For: Why Newspapers’ Shrinking Circulation Isn’t All Bad

in Media on October 27, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

No surprise that Americans are dropping their newspaper subscriptions, as a new batch of numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed yesterday. But before you file this under “death of newspapers,” something to ponder for a second: This might not be the worst news in the world.
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Twitter Scandal! New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd Tweets Against Her Will!

in Media on April 22, 2009 at 7:18 am PT

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says she’d rather be tortured than use Twitter. Good to know–especially if you’re one of the 5,000 people following her Twitter account.
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Gannett’s Good News Comes And Goes, Very Quickly

in Media on April 13, 2009 at 11:26 am PT

This is what passes for good news in the newspaper business these days: Someone bought some shares of one of the industry’s biggest companies. Alas, even that story is old news. And the headlines coming out of Gannett later this week won’t be pleasant either.
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On the Web, the New York Times Really Is the Paper of Record

in Media on February 17, 2009 at 11:50 am PT

Everyone knows that the New York Times is a relic of the analog age, and that its inability to adapt to the Web will doom it… one day. Until then, we’re all reading the New York Times.
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