Much has happened since my last post, including the demise of the venerable Rocky Mountain Post and the print version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
It appears that the Rocky was one of those exceptions to my dictum that newspapers aren‘t hurting despite the economy and despite CorpsNews caterwauling about hard times. It looks like the Rocky […]
Remember the famous French poem of World War II D Day fame? “The violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor.”
The violins of autumn are a bit late, but of late, during this winter of discontent, they’ve playing pretty energetically.
No doubt you’ve heard them. On the radio, on the TV, and especially in […]
A frequent reader of the PD has kept me entertained with updates about a newspaper soap opera in my home state of Kansas involving a newspaper in Liberal and its new challenger.
In the latest turn, the established newspaper is suing the new upstart in federal court.
In happier times, the Southwest Times of Liberal had always […]
Imagine if you will, an eager grocery store manager, newly promoted from stock clerk.
He’s diligent. She’s enthusiastic. He experiments and finds interesting merchandise that flies off the shelves. She motivates her staff to try imaginative and fulsome customer service that packs ‘em in.
Our young hero posts a 10-percent profit for the year. In an […]
I heard from someone who helps contribute information and ideas to this site.
A small-town paper he liked in a community he liked advertised for a new reporter — and at a salary that was semi-decent (for the newspaper business.
He regarded the paper as a nearly perfect situation for him and given his experience and writing […]
