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Kansas City Star Editors Issue Sophie's Choice: You Choose Who's Laid Off
Robert Kessler · 12/12/12 05:12PMHamilton Nolan · 12/10/12 09:59AM
Hamilton Nolan · 12/06/12 01:58PM
30 More Buyouts Coming to the New York Times
Hamilton Nolan · 12/03/12 09:26AMThe New York Times, like the rest of the newspaper industry, went through a painful series of buyouts after the 2008 financial collapse exacerbated the already ongoing collapse of the newspaper industry. In 2009, they cut 100 positions. In 2011, they had 20 more buyouts. This morning, they announced they want 30 more.
The Daily Is Folding
Hamilton Nolan · 12/03/12 09:17AMNew York Times Bureau Chief Isn't Chief of Her Own Tweets
John Cook · 11/28/12 04:29PMJodi Rudoren, the weirdly named Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, likes to keep in touch with friends and readers via the social networking web sites Twitter.com and Facebook.com, as literate human beings in the developed world are often wont to do these days. But she is a Timeswoman! And since someone, somewhere, might object to Rudoren's musings if they are reproduced without the intercession of a bureaucrat tasked with draining them of all immediacy and character, she is now being assigned a Twitter Editor.
Hamilton Nolan · 11/27/12 02:56PM
Maybe Former New York Times Editors Should Not Write For the NYT
Hamilton Nolan · 11/26/12 09:41AMThere's a hidden curse to being a current or former top editor at the New York Times. Yes, you've held one of the most powerful positions in journalism. But who is going to edit you? Nobody, not very stringently, at least. So we find that when current or former NYT editors engage in writing for their paper, it often could have used a heavy round of editing, into the trashcan.
Hamilton Nolan · 11/13/12 12:08PM
This Veterans Day Weekend, It'll Be Tough To Beat One Newspaper's Front Page Tribute
Barry Petchesky · 11/10/12 06:30PMWhat looks like a solid block of gray on the front page of the Hamilton Spectator resolves, when enlarged, into thousands and thousands of names of the war dead. Tomorrow is Remembrance Day in Commonwealth nations, and Veterans Day here in the U.S., and each commemorates the end of World War I and more generally all those who served. I'd hope for something similarly powerful from an American paper tomorrow, but I'm not sure any have the space.
Peggy Noonan Is a Professional Political Expert
Hamilton Nolan · 11/05/12 03:30PMNew York Times Style Section, OR... ?
Hamilton Nolan · 10/25/12 01:30PMBilly Graham Bought a Whole Page in the Wall Street Journal to Tell You What He Thinks About Gays and Women
Robert Kessler · 10/18/12 11:25AMNikki Finke's Boss Owns Variety Now
John Cook · 10/09/12 11:45AMHamilton Nolan · 10/04/12 01:55PM
Village Voice Media's Last Ditch Effort to Save Itself Will Probably Fail
Hamilton Nolan · 09/24/12 09:20AMVillage Voice Media, owner of the Voice and a dozen other alt-weeklies across the country, has decided to try a nifty trick: it's cleaving itself in two. Executives from the company are "buying out" all of the papers, putting them into what is technically a new, standalone company. And VVM's main profit center, hooker ad site Backpage.com, is going to be left in its own separate company, controlled by VVM bosses Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey. This is a weird gambit.
Red and Black Newspaper Update: Publisher and Student Reporter 'Scuffle on the Ground' During a Meeting [UPDATE]
Caity Weaver · 08/17/12 02:05PMCollege Newspaper Memo: Cut Down on 'Journalism,' Don't Describe African Americans as 'Burr-Headed'
Caity Weaver · 08/16/12 03:26PMFrank Bruni Composes Olympic-Themed Hallmark Card
Hamilton Nolan · 08/13/12 09:58AMIf bad newspaper columnist Frank Bruni ever decides to take his milquetoast musings to a new industry, he should consider becoming the guy who writes the little inspirational slogans that appear on marketing materials inside the Coca-Cola— Pavilion at the Olympic Games™. He's already had his tryout!