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Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom The wall between advertising and content grows ever more gauzy. PaidContent (analyzing a report in the Wall Street Journal) reports about America On Line's new news moves: "Armstrong has told the WSJ of his plans to Google-ize AOL’s news, while involving advertisers more closely in the content production process."
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Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom Katie Couric, as the host of Today, typically anchored the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade for NBC. Now Couric is at CBS, which also carries is the parade. So we can't help but wonder: Did the CBS brass hope Couric would do the parade this year? And did she tell them, "No, thank you. Remember, I'm the one who asked Sara...h Palin those tough questions. I've done my time on the fluff shows!" ?
Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom Washington Post is closing its last national bureaus. Does this mean that smaller news organizations who get the Post's national wire service will increasingly have only the AP to rely on for coverage of news from around the country?
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The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is shutting down its bureaus in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, following some layoffs at its online division last week. The goal is to save money by focusing more on politics and local Washington news, the company says. ...
Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom Local News is Dead, says new media mogul Michael Rosenblum -- the man who invented hyperlocal, small-footprint television news reporting.
www.rosenblumtv.com
Last week at CUNY, I sat with Localnewser.com's Mark Joyella. He took out his camera and did a small video interview on the spot. He posted it on his
Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom is curious what sources people use for local Milwaukee news outside the daily Journal Sentinel or the 4 network TV affiliates if they want to know what's going on.
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Is newspaper circulation worse than it looks? Changes in audit rules
allow newspapers to count some readers twice. The Associated Press
reports:
www.google.com
SAN FRANCISCO — While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.
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High school journalists in Illinois learn about Freedom of the Press. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-s
Stevenson High School officials halt publication of student newspaper, the Statesman -- chicagotribu
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Administrators at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire spiked Friday's edition of the school's award-winning newspaper because of concerns about stories on drinking and smoking by honor students, teen ...
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Long Island's Newsday gets in trouble over a cartoon that mocks the notion of Hate Crimes. "We expect the cartoons we publish, many of which are nationally
syndicated, to amuse, stir and entertain, but never to offend," a newspaper spokeswoman says.
Is Pressroom alone in thinking that "never offending" sets the bar for c...omic strips awfully high -- and guarantees pablum?
(We planned to link to a Newsday story in which the quote appeared, but it's behind a pay wall. So instead, a link to Richard Prince's account of the controversy)
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Conservative cartoonist mocked idea of hate crimes; Spanish-language papers to outsource page design; Chinese-American press asks, "What about Taiwan?" Asian journalists pick nonprofit ...
See MoreMilwaukee Magazine Pressroom When WTMJ-AM fired Jonathan Green's sidekick Phil Cianciola just before Labor Day, the station stirred up a lot of Cianciola's fans. December's Pressroom column, out now, looks at the background to why Cianciola and Green didn't get along--and how Green won in the end.
Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom As the media look for new revenue sources, sometimes a line gets crossed: The Madison-based Center for Media and Democracy calls attention to a recent TPM Muckraker piece about Newsweek's deal with the Oil Lobby to brief Congress on energy issues. Pressroom recalls an excellent Newsweek piece a while back uncovering th...e role of oil-industry lobbysts in sowing doubts about climate change. Has the newsweekly been bought off?
www.prwatch.org
TPM Muckraker has exposed the fact that Newsweek is teaming up with the American Petroleum Institute (API) to host a "briefing" for Members of Congress on climate and energy policy. The briefing ...
See MoreMilwaukee Magazine Pressroom will confess that news of national papers' attempts to penetrate new local markets (San Francisco, Chicago) had us scratching our heads, thinking, "What are they *thinking*?!" But this item from Ad Age suggests that it may have some promise. Ad in the Wall St. Journal's new SF edition are apparently sold out for the rest of the year.
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National news outlets' battle to provide local news and win local advertisers is suddenly heating up fast between the Wall St. Journal and New York Times.
Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom has absolutely nothing to say about this story:
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"Evil spirits and spooky hauntings are top of mind for a lot of individuals around Halloween, but recognized psychic and professional exorcist Jeffrey Seelman of Brookfield-based Starclear has made spirits and negative energy a part of his business."
Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom Perhaps print isn't dead yet? A journalism student on the east coast blogs on why reading ink on paper still beats reading the news on a digital screen.
bradley247.wordpress.com
While I may be holding onto a medium that’s nearing obsolescence, let’s face it: The web just cannot replicate (yet) the experience of curling up on the couch to a good story in the New York Times magazine. ...
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A busy day. Bloggers' contrasting views of yesterday's Supreme Court proceedings. Charlie Sykes (mostly reprinting a WisPolitics report): http://www.620wtmj.com/shows/charliesyke
Milwaukee Magazine Pressroom This story in Folio's daily feed, pointing to a story in Wired magzine about the firm DemandMedia, breaks down the economics of the new media for the people who write and produce video for it. It's piecework with a vengeance.
www.foliomag.com
Demand Media cuts costs, ramps up volume online to reflect market value.
