tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45598155903602050382024-03-05T03:52:44.907-08:00JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Media'It's like having a front seat at the industrial revolution.' -- Mark PottsJOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.comBlogger775125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-25810994204509356382010-08-06T15:02:00.000-07:002010-08-06T15:15:30.735-07:00Patch.com -- New on the Net<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogcdn.com/corp.aol.com/media/2010/05/patch-1274728243.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/corp.aol.com/media/2010/05/patch-1274728243.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Check out <a href="http://www.patch.com/">Patch.com</a> for hyper-local news. And coming in late September, see <a href="http://www.chatsworth.patch.com/">Chatsworth Patch</a>. In the meantime, click over to Twitter and follow ChatsworthPatch and TwitterPatch.JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-14282569350608255772010-04-26T14:56:00.000-07:002010-04-26T14:58:03.111-07:00WSJ Launches New York Section<object id="wsj_fp" width="400" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://online.wsj.com/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashvars" value="videoGUID={FC53443A-7341-474B-BFE5-3843DBAAC1B9}&playerid=1000&plyMediaEnabled=1&configURL=http://wsj.vo.llnwd.net/o28/players/&autoStart=false" base="http://online.wsj.com/media/swf/"name="flashPlayer"></param><embed src="http://online.wsj.com/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashVars="videoGUID={FC53443A-7341-474B-BFE5-3843DBAAC1B9}&playerid=1000&plyMediaEnabled=1&configURL=http://wsj.vo.llnwd.net/o28/players/&autoStart=false" base="http://online.wsj.com/media/swf/" name="flashPlayer" width="400" height="300" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-19863192954309236902010-04-18T23:11:00.000-07:002010-04-18T23:13:17.857-07:00A Bad Morning at The New York Times<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Clarendon Bold', 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; width: 670px; ">By <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/russell-baker/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Russell Baker</a></h3></span></div>Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. Childhood was work and study, study and work, and though they do not always guarantee success, for Gerald Boyd they did just what movies, books, and professional moralizers said they would do, probably because his widowed grandmother contributed a lot of wisdom, love, and iron to the self-making; and in his early fifties Gerald Boyd became managing editor of <i>The New York Times</i>. This was the second most important job in the newsroom of one of the world’s better newspapers. He was the first black ever to reach such a dazzling position in the<i>Times</i> hierarchy, and the gaudiest job of all—the executive editorship—seemed within his reach almost until the very moment he was fired. <b><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/29/a-bad-morning-at-the-new-york-times/">[Click for More]</a></b></span>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-29186153461978530982010-04-03T05:45:00.001-07:002010-04-03T05:47:00.082-07:00iPad Arrives... and?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdbcFgnkM7gLOlsUFjKW-dZKlCZbCaVYTP3WabHnZIfbiaWuqHF1O9AlbXMSnIK-2VNQ4dtrNPMn2rGEuGvspZF_GDmctmcTMJLqUWdY1JnsgubBMWVWH2tshuArDJq0bFtTxuxitIGM/s1600/ipad_nyt.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdbcFgnkM7gLOlsUFjKW-dZKlCZbCaVYTP3WabHnZIfbiaWuqHF1O9AlbXMSnIK-2VNQ4dtrNPMn2rGEuGvspZF_GDmctmcTMJLqUWdY1JnsgubBMWVWH2tshuArDJq0bFtTxuxitIGM/s400/ipad_nyt.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455891713249992514" border="0" /></a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-2708087369234089272010-03-31T07:36:00.000-07:002010-03-31T07:38:09.275-07:00Brian Williams slow jams the news<object width="400" height="296"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/j6dgA6gdlUs5VIk3XBO8Bw"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/j6dgA6gdlUs5VIk3XBO8Bw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" width="400" height="296"></embed></object>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-6161872666151111112010-03-26T00:04:00.000-07:002010-03-26T00:06:15.580-07:00Journalism Layoffs<div class="dipity_embed" style="width:400px"><iframe width="400" height="400" src="http://www.dipity.com/poynter/personal/embed_tl?" style="border:1px solid #CCC;"></iframe><p style="margin:0;font-family:Arial,sans;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.dipity.com/poynter/personal">Poynter</a> on <a href="http://www.dipity.com/" />Dipity</a>.</p></div>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-72176375853128564022010-01-29T13:40:00.000-08:002010-01-29T13:43:05.435-08:00The World's Most Generic News Report<object width="400" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qpVTUdfcEMg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qpVTUdfcEMg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br />h/t <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/">LAobserved.com</a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-40346601356007623622010-01-27T15:42:00.000-08:002010-01-27T15:54:08.833-08:00Will the iPad Save Journalism?<object width="400" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cCevnzsHN20&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cCevnzsHN20&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=176756">What Apple's iPad Means for Journalism Design, Multimedia & Business</a></li><li><a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/liveblogging-the-new-apple-tablet-what-will-it-mean-for-journalism/" rel="bookmark"><span></span></a><a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/liveblogging-the-new-apple-tablet-what-will-it-mean-for-journalism/">Liveblogging the new Apple tablet: What will it mean for journalism?</a></li><li><span><a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-ipad-a-media-machine-that-opens-up-a-new-front/">T</a></span><a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-ipad-a-media-machine-that-opens-up-a-new-front/">he iPad: A Media Machine That Opens Up a New Front</a><span></span></li><li><a href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-first-impressions/"><span></span>The Apple iPad: First Impressions</a></li></ul>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-33904567867499049432010-01-18T09:59:00.000-08:002010-01-18T10:03:21.850-08:00Miami News Reunion Recalls Good Old Days<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSiA-0Y2bwyI7qcy9F4ay6hDhv2d5HLUXX5Xty71Ct99c4QMHDTHSBtaRICnhwnnSWh_krHihIAQbinf1sBv4i-1bHvLgvQ5-ry4eds19qiHRo2xXRhlPXmVIgF6WqBhv4yUVKGGWYhF4/s1600-h/miami_news_farewell.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSiA-0Y2bwyI7qcy9F4ay6hDhv2d5HLUXX5Xty71Ct99c4QMHDTHSBtaRICnhwnnSWh_krHihIAQbinf1sBv4i-1bHvLgvQ5-ry4eds19qiHRo2xXRhlPXmVIgF6WqBhv4yUVKGGWYhF4/s400/miami_news_farewell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428141942111491506" border="0" /></a><br />The Phone Caper Story and many others like it are surely being retold this weekend as 100 or so Miami News staffers gather in Miami for a remarkable, out-of-nowhere reunion -- 21 years after the demise of the spunky afternoon newspaper. <span style="font-weight: bold;">[Click for MORE]<br /></span><ul><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1429944.html">Spunky newspaper cast a giant shadow over Miami</a></li></ul>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-38945595204888505482010-01-13T11:29:00.000-08:002010-01-13T11:33:13.068-08:0010 Years in 2 Minutes With 92 Covers<object width="400" height="330"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pW2PXf5Mzsw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pW2PXf5Mzsw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="400" height="330"></embed></object><br />ASME and MPA presents “Covering the Decade,” a fast-paced video that tells the story of the century’s first decade through the prism of magazine covers.JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-80485787464390509082010-01-09T12:21:00.000-08:002010-01-09T12:29:43.430-08:00Early Times? Late Times? What Times?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD7sf1LAoYxuLFMjqYLjy6M4ZZdqNl4St-Eek_BaryDrQUAsliIgIYOGJz5S7J4ZMa-jnUSHZfguLCXWFleT1ZaWpHFkYjo6A_lQBe-qr2ErHRPrnFTq7PUe0S_pkzG3URni-gBis6Ss8/s1600-h/lat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD7sf1LAoYxuLFMjqYLjy6M4ZZdqNl4St-Eek_BaryDrQUAsliIgIYOGJz5S7J4ZMa-jnUSHZfguLCXWFleT1ZaWpHFkYjo6A_lQBe-qr2ErHRPrnFTq7PUe0S_pkzG3URni-gBis6Ss8/s400/lat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424838762733760114" border="0" /></a>For generations, newspapers have tried to cut the time between printing and delivery, giving readers the latest news — especially on big stories that often land on the front page. The Los Angeles Times is about to take a big step in the other direction. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/media/09press.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[Click for MORE]</span></a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-57458154845763188042009-12-20T01:14:00.001-08:002009-12-20T01:19:32.844-08:00Outsourcers Cast Eye on Editorial<p>Three years after North American newspapers began outsourcing ad production, publishers are considering contracting out their editorial operations.</p> <p>At least two editorial contracting firms are beginning to aggressively woo publishers to use their services and one, Pagemasters North America, in mid-November was tapped by The Toronto Star to handle a portion of the daily's editorial operations. The Star will be the first North American paper to use an outside firm to perform editorial work.<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.newsandtech.com/news/article_0dcb7296-dd01-11de-b8e7-001cc4c03286.html"> [Click for MORE]</a><br /></p><br /><br /><a href="http://sharethis.com/"></a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-20164691973494860602009-12-20T01:05:00.000-08:002009-12-20T01:07:47.534-08:00Sam Zell Must Face Tribune Employees’ Lawsuit Over Pension PlanSam Zell, the real estate investor who took the Chicago-based Tribune Co. private in an $8.3 billion stock buyback two years ago, must face an employee lawsuit claiming he knowingly violated federal pension laws. <span style="font-weight:bold;">[Click for MORE]<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ava4mp_fmg9U"></a></span>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-20049849945762413062009-12-20T01:00:00.000-08:002009-12-20T01:01:57.901-08:00The Miami Herald Comes Hat In Hand<embed id='player_swf' src='http://media.vmixcore.com/core-flash/UnifiedVideoPlayer/UnifiedVideoPlayer.swf' quality='high' width='400' height='275' name='UnifiedVideoPlayer' align='middle' play='true' loop='false' quality='high' allowScriptAccess='always' allowFullScreen='true' wmode='transparent' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' flashvars='player_id=8659f4ba0443c8ebb2025b29016dfa0d&token=ac422c15d283a6d2658c529444f316a3' pluginspage='http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer'></embed>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-44416655420603027232009-12-16T17:11:00.000-08:002009-12-16T17:15:23.536-08:00Just In time for the Holidays...'It's a Wonderful... Job'<object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8145386&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8145386&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="225" width="400"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8145386">"It's a Wonderful Job"</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bgarvin">Ben Garvin</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-90730437984920680152009-12-08T16:13:00.000-08:002009-12-08T16:17:16.401-08:00Five Magazine and Newspaper Publishers Introduce Their Digital Newsstand<object height="300" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ntyXvLnxyXk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ntyXvLnxyXk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="300" width="400"></embed></object><br />Five major magazine and newspaper publishers on Tuesday announced plans to build an industry-standard platform to present their work on the Web, phones and e-readers in a richer, more flexible and more lucrative form than is possible today. <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/five-major-magazine-and-newspaper-publishers-unveil-their-digital-newsstand/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[Click for MORE]</span></a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-13462821747984440622009-12-06T05:01:00.001-08:002009-12-06T05:17:37.051-08:00Q&A: Pete Hamill Talks About Newspapers, Fiction and Life With Keyboard and Pen<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.syracuse.com/entertainment/photo/2009-12-06-hamill1jpg-ae5cae5271f9c858_large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 238px;" src="http://media.syracuse.com/entertainment/photo/2009-12-06-hamill1jpg-ae5cae5271f9c858_large.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-photo" style="display: inline;"><span class="photo-breakout photo-center large"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="byline">AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews</span></span></span></span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-photo" style="display: inline;"><span class="photo-breakout photo-center large"><span class="caption">Pete Hamill ponders his words during an interview in New York City in 2007.</span></span></span></span></div> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmoxwz9R0ddvxLcbR9WEYnllb7uqwlQKeagwjOQaMC8K6Fu88lYopkvwTDQsZ8gmBRxiYKxvYp1bINOO03FswrHdix43XkkkslRllqTEJjZfgEndZX1uEb3NoPlfvwYZcIWjeXzWfnR8/s1600-h/quote_tiny.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 16px; height: 12px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmoxwz9R0ddvxLcbR9WEYnllb7uqwlQKeagwjOQaMC8K6Fu88lYopkvwTDQsZ8gmBRxiYKxvYp1bINOO03FswrHdix43XkkkslRllqTEJjZfgEndZX1uEb3NoPlfvwYZcIWjeXzWfnR8/s200/quote_tiny.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412109061841130706" border="0" /></a>Pete Hamill has lived the kind of life some author might latch onto down the road as a good blueprint for a script.</p> <p>Born in Brooklyn in June, 1935, the eldest of seven first-generation Hamill kids with parents who immigrated from Belfast, Northern Ireland.</p> <p>Teenage sheet metal worker at the Brooklyn Navy Yards who earned his high school GED while serving in the military. Wide-eyed art and writing student at Mexico City College and then night school design student at Pratt Institute, taking advantage of the GI Bill of Rights.</p> <p>Columnist for the New York Post, Daily News and Newsday who covered wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Northern Ireland. </p> <p>Diligent producer of essays, articles and fiction who’s currently working on “the closing pages” for novel No. 11.</p> <p>A full life, indeed.</p> <p>Yet ask Pete Hamill to describe what he is, and he answers in one word.</p> <p>Writer.</p> <p>Hamill takes a 3 p.m. phone call two days before Thanksgiving for an afternoon phone interview from his home in Manhattan. There’s wisdom in his well-seasoned New Yorker voice as he talks about life.</p> <p>He says he started working on his novel at 9:30 a.m. and needed to come up for air anyway. <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2009/12/pete_hamill_talks_about_newspa.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[Click for MORE]</span></a><br /></p>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-19172764007366704702009-12-06T04:45:00.000-08:002009-12-06T04:58:52.674-08:00'Los Angeles Times Today'... er, Yesterday...<div class="video_thumb"><br /> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kcet/inventing-la/watch_latimes_today.html"><img style="width: 400px; height: 218px;" title="LA Times Today" src="http://www.pbs.org/kcet/inventing-la/images/watch_thumb_latimestoday.jpg" class="active" alt="LA Times Today" /></a><br /> <p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/kcet/inventing-la/watch_latimes_today.html">"LA Times Today" (Archival Video)</a></p><br /></div>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-19108853384085738022009-12-05T13:10:00.000-08:002009-12-05T13:13:20.836-08:00Letterpress... Before It Dies<object width="400" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Iv69kB_e9KY&border=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Iv69kB_e9KY&border=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="400" height="349"></embed></object><br /><br />Hattip: <a href="http://www.edpadgett.com/blog/blog.html">Ed Padgett</a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-66483349548155314932009-12-04T14:46:00.000-08:002009-12-04T14:53:34.092-08:00Hearst Enters E-Reader Market With Skiff<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJUWbhRwEWhXVjaSP0QWLH29R01GKzswvcRTCma7ypjOj2BLvdxDnFlaUvnv0PrjBJPJ-oHABdG7pGtqox3JXtA9nY8zVxIxqdecwV-kRmQq8srovcmT8ledJTsZ40j6fbLVgWhY5pa9I/s1600-h/skiff.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJUWbhRwEWhXVjaSP0QWLH29R01GKzswvcRTCma7ypjOj2BLvdxDnFlaUvnv0PrjBJPJ-oHABdG7pGtqox3JXtA9nY8zVxIxqdecwV-kRmQq8srovcmT8ledJTsZ40j6fbLVgWhY5pa9I/s400/skiff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411516817212364610" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/digitalee.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 169px;" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/digitalee.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Despite its silly name, magazine and newspaper publisher <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Hearst-profile.html">Hearst</a></strong> is confident that its new Skiff digital publishing technology will lead the charge in e-readers <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735004574574290782602228.html">by the time the application/device is ready to launch</a>. <p>Launching sometime early next year, Skiff-enabled devices will produce products far-and-above the similarly-proposed <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Time-Inc-profile.html">Time Inc.</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Conde-Nast-profile.html">Conde Nast</a></strong> digital magazines because, as Hearst media president <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Kenneth-A-Bronfin-profile.html">Kenneth A. Bronfin</a></strong> told <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/The-Wall-Street-Journal-profile.html"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a></strong>, "We are going to create an entity by publishers, for publishers." <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/new_media/hearst_enters_ereader_market_with_skiff_144914.asp"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[Click for MORE]</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735004574574290782602228.html#articleTabs%3Darticle">Hearst Plans Digital Magazine, Newspaper Service </a></li></ul><p><br /></p>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-22400488565527670542009-11-29T19:36:00.000-08:002009-11-29T19:39:09.685-08:00AOL to Produce News, Videos by the Numbers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://online.wsj.com/media/aol_D_20091123102811.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 174px;" src="http://online.wsj.com/media/aol_D_20091123102811.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />AOL is putting the finishing touches on a high-tech system for mass-producing news articles, entertainment and other online content, the linchpin of Chief Executive Tim Armstrong's strategy for reviving the struggling 25-year-old Internet company after Time Warner spins it off next month. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703300504574565673001918320.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[Click for MORE]</span></a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-59957469655874737342009-11-21T12:47:00.000-08:002009-11-21T12:50:50.259-08:00A Great Newspaper Gets Slutty<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" salign="l" flashvars="&titleAvailable=true&playerAvailable=true&searchAvailable=false&shareFlag=N&singleURL=http://latimes.vidcms.trb.com/alfresco/service/edge/content/5b33964a-c02c-446b-875b-359fad2ebf06&propName=latimes.com&hostURL=http://www.latimes.com&swfPath=http://latimes.vid.trb.com/player/&omAccount=tribglobal&omnitureServer=latimes.com" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" menu="true" name="PaperVideoTest" bgcolor="#ffffff" devicefont="false" wmode="transparent" scale="showall" loop="true" play="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://latimes.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf" align="middle" height="450" width="400"></embed><a class="oymlocsiadhhkxfgmpma" href="http://latimes.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf"></a><a class="oymlocsiadhhkxfgmpma" href="http://latimes.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf"></a><a class="oymlocsiadhhkxfgmpma" href="http://latimes.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf"></a><a class="oymlocsiadhhkxfgmpma" href="http://latimes.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf"></a><br />On a dare, an entertainment reporter steps into the shoes (and sultry zebra dress) of a 'Dancing With the Stars' contestant. In a grueling test of stamina and nerves, she discovers her inner shimmy. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dancing21-2009nov21,0,2214349.story">[Click for MORE]</a>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-26023063965875305792009-11-09T16:48:00.000-08:002009-11-09T16:51:19.542-08:00Warren Beatty gets OK to sue TribCo over Dick Tracy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio0oz5Oa4JKdUPrFudmvw7L0urjDLsS3tNXqf-uYngKQqcP59Y1K3UvbMtWFbByjnRvMkKaCZVQSMREMn8O3Dg7bh4q82TaoCM_XnuApGZ7YOd4oPSr3Ve-pR9OEVUufT2e3H53wIPAYQ/s1600-h/dicktracy4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio0oz5Oa4JKdUPrFudmvw7L0urjDLsS3tNXqf-uYngKQqcP59Y1K3UvbMtWFbByjnRvMkKaCZVQSMREMn8O3Dg7bh4q82TaoCM_XnuApGZ7YOd4oPSr3Ve-pR9OEVUufT2e3H53wIPAYQ/s200/dicktracy4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402271121742534946" border="0" /></a>Academy-award winning actor Warren Beatty can go ahead with a California lawsuit against a unit of bankrupt <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/relatedStories.pl?type=company&id=264">Tribune Co.</a> over rights to comic strip detective Dick Tracy, a federal judge ruled on Monday.<p> According to court papers, Beatty bought the motion picture and television rights for Dick Tracy in 1985. He went on to star in and direct the 1990 film by the same name that won three Academy awards and also starred Dustin Hoffman, Madonna and Al Pacino.</p><p> Tribune has said an agreement that granted rights to Beatty had lapsed because the actor-director had not started work on a new project based on the character. <a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=36084"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[Click for MORE]</span></a><br /></p>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-60624889226966125882009-11-07T04:29:00.000-08:002009-11-07T04:34:25.043-08:00Harold Evans on the Colbert Report<table style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="353" width="360"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/">The Colbert Report</a></td><td style="padding: 2px 5px 0px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c</td></tr><tr style="height: 14px;" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;" colspan="2"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255174/november-04-2009/harold-evans">Harold Evans</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 14px; background-color: rgb(53, 53, 53);" valign="middle"><td colspan="2" style="padding: 2px 5px 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 360px; text-align: right;"><a target="_blank" style="color: rgb(150, 222, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/">www.colbertnation.com</a></td></tr><tr valign="middle"><td style="padding: 0px;" colspan="2"><embed style="display: block;" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:255174" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000" height="301" width="360"></embed></td></tr><tr style="height: 18px;" valign="middle"><td style="padding: 0px;" colspan="2"><table style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%"><tbody><tr valign="middle"><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a target="_blank" style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes">Colbert Report Full Episodes</a></td><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a target="_blank" style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/">Political Humor</a></td><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a target="_blank" style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/254015/november-02-2009/sport-report---nyc-marathon---olympic-speedskating">U.S. Speedskating</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Harold Evans, former editor of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Times of London</span> and the <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunday Times</span>, talks about being married to Tina Brown, getting knighted by the queen and exposing spies in the British government.JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559815590360205038.post-36184874648379087502009-11-02T00:26:00.000-08:002009-11-02T16:04:17.573-08:00The L.A. Herald Examiner -- 20 Years Gone<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-zCotYodI43CDH3OIPUerjJue_wO6Q_GLUAjtdqMVtBhgUU5imViOBxEs7wtFnaGfbr37dc9kNjp7MTZS8xlzRjr0z_tS4LOTfEhVgNGCgZuknKAzZVCShKGaCcQelFwLVnnUjXSZtQ/s1600-h/herex_front.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-zCotYodI43CDH3OIPUerjJue_wO6Q_GLUAjtdqMVtBhgUU5imViOBxEs7wtFnaGfbr37dc9kNjp7MTZS8xlzRjr0z_tS4LOTfEhVgNGCgZuknKAzZVCShKGaCcQelFwLVnnUjXSZtQ/s400/herex_front.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399525267489101714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;" ><b>Nov. 2 is the 20th anniversary of the closing of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. </b>See <a href="http://herex0.tripod.com/">http://herex0.tripod.com/</a></span><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">See also</span> <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/11/20_years_ago_so_long_la.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">20 years ago: 'So Long, L.A.!'</span></a></li></ul>JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235467210094784056noreply@blogger.com1