Nov 28, 2012
As often happens when a new owner takes over a newspaper, the staff of the Orange County Register filed into their Santa Ana offices in late July for an all-hands meeting. What they heard from Aaron Kushner, the new boss,…
Nov 19, 2012
If 2012 is the year that newspapers pinned their hopes on paywalls, it’s also the year that journalism schools pinned theirs on the so-called “teaching hospital” model: employing their own students and recent alums in their newsrooms. The highest profile…
Nov 05, 2012
Six weeks ago the nation’s predominant chain of alternative weeklies split itself into two very different companies: a publisher of quirky local newspapers and an online classifieds site with an image problem involving prostitution and underage girls. If that wasn’t…
Oct 30, 2012
The Local East Village blog was born on Sept. 13, 2010. It may well die still an infant at the end of this year, though a precocious one. Started as a partnership between New York University and The New York…