The student government at the University of Texas at Arlington is considering closing the student newspaper for environmental reasons and restricting it to online.
An article on Dallas’ Pegasus News web site — we were directed there from Romenesko’s newsletter — says the editor…
Printing at home
A news item made us wonder if the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was decades ahead of its time in 1939 when it introduced new technology for delivering the news. MediaNews Group has just revealed plans for something called “Individuated News,”…
The crowd at President Barack Obama’s inauguration topped 2 million — at least that figure was being reported Tuesday morning — but it seems to have been steadily shrinking.
As a rule, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reluctant to give crowd…
Prayer was among the losers in some retooling of the Indianapolis Star, an item on IndyStar.com reported Monday. (We came across it thanks to the Romenesko media newsletter.)
The IndyStar.com blog item by religion writer Robert King begins:
“Readers of The Indianapolis Star woke…
The Romenesko news media newsletter reports that the Columbia Missourian is joining the list of papers cutting back on the number of days it publishes. The Missourian outlined the cuts last week. Romenesko reports:
“The university-backed paper will save about $350,000 by cutting…
The Herald and News in Klamath Falls, Oregon, will stop producing a Monday paper, the Romenesko media newsletter reports. Citing the economy, Publisher Heidi Wright says the width of the other days’ papers will be reduced by an inch.
In a “note…
In sort of a Bizarro World take on the presidential landscape, John Carlson, a radio talk show host in Seattle, muses that the liberal media would have a completely different take on Sarah Palin’s credentials for office if she were a…
The online Romenesko site about media happenings has a link to an article by The Deal.com that praises the Post-Dispatch’s coverage of the InBev/Anheuser-Busch deal.
The Deal.com calls our A-B reporting “smart, thorough, fair-minded and exhaustive coverage.”
The Deal.com says the coverage is an example of…
