OMG. The most insane NY Post title ever. (Get it?!…….Buccaneer, Young Buc, Rap Sheet, etc, etc)
Business Buzz The New York Times has threatened to shut down the Boston Globe (which it owns) in 30-days unless the paper makes major cuts. Needless to say, people in Boston are not pleased.
Two Jewish newspapers photoshopped the female ministers out of Israel's new cabinet photo. It's considered a violation of modesty to publish pictures of women by ultra-orthodox Jews, so this is one way to deal with it.
You knew this was coming: the Chicago Tribute replaces masthead names with Twitter accounts. Not the first newspaper to jump on the Twitter bandwagon, but definitely to first to Twitterize the entire staff via the Masthead.
From the obituary pages on the last ever print run of the Seattle Post Intelligencer this Tuesday. Goodbye and RIP, Old Media. We hardly knew ye.
I love my RSS reader, but sometimes I really want to know what made the front page of the New York Times. Enter Newscan, a slick little project from Rayogram and the Newseum.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1883785,...
Those smug bastards over at Time magazine have drawn up a list of the ten major newspapers most likely to go under or go digital very soon. Topping the list is the Philadelphia Daily News, which nobody reads anyway (I'm from Philly), but some non-second-rate papers included on the list are the Chicago Sun-Times and the Boston Globe, which is reportedly losing $1 million each week.
YES!!!@#! That was fast. This is obviously the falsest report since Dewey Defeats Truman, but it's a slow news day and I laughed.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7qumk/dear_news...
Reddit says: “Dear Newspapers, maybe if you hadn't waited until the day before Bush left office to start calling him on everything he's done in the past eight years, we wouldn't be as screwed as we are now.”
Newspapers didn’t play it coy in their front-page coverage. It goes without saying that this is such a profoundly historic moment, and it seems the media isn’t about to pull any punches.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/54781.html
The Anchorage Daily News has endorsed Barack Obama. Maybe Sarah Palin should have read more newspapers.
Tech Buzz The Gray Lady is reportedly working on the first newspaper API. Aron Pilhofer, the paper’s editor of interactive news, says the goal is to “make the NYT programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data.”
Business Buzz In 2007, newspaper advertisement revenue experienced its worst drop in 50 years. Growth rates slowed on their web sites though, too, so we’re all kinda screwed.