From Gannett Blog:
CEO Craig Dubow mentioned the Plastic Logic electronic display during Corporate's presentation Wednesday to Wall Street media stock analysts. Readers will use the Kindle-like device to access electronic editions of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, as they drop four traditional print editions in a step closer to web-only delivery.
Gannett Detroit CEO Dave Hunke has said the Detroit Media Partnership got 100 Plastic Logic displays for distribution as part of an evaluation. "The readers, which boast a display area of 8 inches by 11 inches, aren’t slated for commercial distribution until 2010," says the Newspapers and Technology trade site.
Detroit is working with Plastic Logic to develop a lease plan that would allow subscribers to rent the readers, Hunke says. The Detroit joint operating agreement partnership will use the next several months to work out prices, availability and other issues, he said.
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Mary Anne Dolan on Jim Bellows
From LAobserved.com:
Mary Anne Dolan was hired at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner by Jim Bellows and followed him as editor. Below are her remarks at last Friday's memorial service for Bellows, who died this month at age 86.
I walked into Jim’s room last Thursday and found him nattily dressed, lounging on his bed. He was propped up on his left side so as to watch the door. With his right hand he was trying to fold a page of the N.Y. Times.
Mary Anne Dolan was hired at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner by Jim Bellows and followed him as editor. Below are her remarks at last Friday's memorial service for Bellows, who died this month at age 86.
I walked into Jim’s room last Thursday and found him nattily dressed, lounging on his bed. He was propped up on his left side so as to watch the door. With his right hand he was trying to fold a page of the N.Y. Times. He looked as handsome and vital that day as I ever saw him: Neatly-pressed khaki pants, crisp blue and white button-down shirt, khaki baseball cap, “Life is Good.”
“Hey, Dolan! You taking me to the doctor?” PAUSE, then
“Let’s go to lunch in Paris.” [Click for MORE]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
San Diego Union-Tribune Sold to Platinum Equity
The parent company of The San Diego Union-Tribune
announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to sell the newspaper to the Beverly Hills private equity firm Platinum Equity for an undisclosed price. La Jolla-based The Copley Press Inc. had been seeking a buyer since July 2008, when it hired investment bankers to explore “strategic options” amid a nationwide decline in newspaper advertising and circulation.
The firm said in a statement that its team includes David H. Black, whose company Black Press owns dozens of community newspapers, mostly in western Canada, and has expanded its U.S. presence with acquisitions of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 2000 and the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal in 2006. [Click for MORE]
- Union-Tribune timeline
- Platinum: Penchant for turning around troubled firms
- Copley's Borrego newspaper sold
- Buyout Firm Acquires San Diego Paper
- Copley sells San Diego Union-Tribune
Elsewhere:
- Holder open to antitrust re-examination
- Singleton says San Francisco newspaper consolidation 'might be a smart thing'
- Tucson Citizen to stay open 'day to day'; closure delayed
- Journal Register Co. can pay part of its newsprint bill, judge says
What Happens to the Archives
of Defunct Newspapers?
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer announced Monday that it would discontinue the print edition of the newspaper. A few weeks ago, the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News published its final issue. When newspapers fold, what happens to their archives? [Click for MORE]
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
AOL to Start Reporting the News,
Instead of Just Aggregating It
New Media is about to meet Old Media. But not in the way you’d think.AOL is about to launch a politics site, hiring well-respected political journalists to do reporting and analysis, and thus moving the Time Warner division more aggressively toward becoming a producer of traditional news.
The site's top editor will be Melinda Henneberger, who has been on staff at The New York Times, Newsweek and, most recently, Slate. Henneberger told TheWrap that the launch will take place in April, "pegged to Obama's first 100 days in office."
"AOL is investing in a big way in news and in old school journalism," Henneberger said. The goal is "quality news sites that have zero aggregation, original content, that pay writers a living wage, and that pay bloggers." [Click for MORE]
Another Newspaper Casualty
Next week, the slow, inexorable decline of newspapers will be marked by another datapoint when Bruce Sherman, the 61-year-old CEO of 
Private Capital Management, retires. For those who have followed the newspaper industry's financial travails, Sherman was the money manager who forced the merger of Knight Ridder to McClatchy back in 2006, and then, along with Morgan Stanley fund manager Hassan Elmasry, took on Arthur Sulzberger at the New York Times Company. [Click for MORE]Elsewhere:
- Come see us in the pixels
- Pelosi goes to bat to keep Bay Area papers alive
- Seattle P-I staffers will get severance pay
- JOA to live on after Tucson Citizen folds
- Specifics on newspapers from State of News Media report
- Frayed Thread in a Free Society
- Concept of newspapers as nonprofits gains ground
- Chronicle workers vote 10 to 1 for concessions
- Chicago Sun-Times editing jobs won't be outsourced to India, Canada
- Toledo Guild seeks layoff alternatives at The Blade
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New SeattlePI.com Strategy: 'Experiment a Lot, Fail Fast'
Today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer delivers its final print edition, tomorrow it debuts as an online-only publication. The new SeattlePI.com will try to answer the question raised by its executive producer Michelle Nicolosi: "Is it possible to run an online-only local news site that serves a city's readers well while turning a profit?"Nicolosi says, "Our strategy moving forward is to experiment a lot and fail fast" [Click for MORE]
Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web
The Post-Intelligencer is the largest American paper to drop its print edition and become an Internet-only entity.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer to become Web-only newspaper
- Photo gallery: Last publication day at the P-I
- Video: The P-I staff: What we'll remember about the paper
- seattlepi.com to continue
- Video: Publisher's announcement
- Special section: P-I memories
- Letter to readers
- More about the new seattlepi.com
- Connelly: Online-only P-I will be a journalism adventure
- PDF of commemorative P-I page
- Questions and answers for Seattle P-I subscribers
- The PI's globe will keep on spinning
- Hearst Ends 'Post-Intelligencer's 146-Year Run
- Will 'Seattle Times' Follow 'PI' Into the Sunset?
- Hearst Closing Seattle P-I Print Edition, Going Online Only
- P-I's closure offers "cautious relief" for Seattle Times, but no solution
- Read historic front pages from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Gallery | The Seattle P-I through the years
- Statement from Frank Blethen (PDF)
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