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Berlusconi Irate Over Pesky Media Questions

Italian PM walks out of interview when asked about teen model

(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi owns nearly half of Italy’s television stations—but not La Repubblica, the Italian daily that has incensed the PM with questions about his connection to an 18-year-old model, the Guardian reports. When a reporter asked about Berlusconi's appearance at her birthday party, Berlusconi took offense, saying “...

Google Drops Plans to Save Struggling Papers

CEO says company won't cross the line into creating content

(Newser) - Google has decided against  throwing struggling newspapers a lifeline through acquisition or by using its charitable arm to help them gain non-profit status, CEO Eric Schmidt tells the Financial Times. Schmidt said the company considered the idea, but decided that Google didn't want to cross the line between technology and...

Dowd Sorry for 'Plagiarizing' Liberal Blog

Says Josh Marshall passage came unattributed from a pal

(Newser) - Fans of Talking Points Memo did a doubletake when they got to a passage in Maureen Dowd's column yesterday on the timing of Bush use of torture; Josh Marshall had written the same thing—short of three words—three days back. Dowd has corrected her column online, and the New ...

Times Weighs 2 Pay Models for Web Content

One scenario is 'tricky;' the other will get you a T-shirt

(Newser) - The New York Times will decide how to charge users for its web content by the end of next month, the New York Observer reports. In his semi-annual newsroom meeting Wednesday, executive editor Bill Keller outlined two proposals the company is considering: a meter system based on word count or...

Web Didn't Kill Sportswriting; Lame, Humorless Writers Did

Writers today just don't know how to have fun

(Newser) - When the working day is done, sportswriters just wanna have fun—or at least they did 50 years ago, when hot-type dinosaurs like Gary Cartwright and his gonzo cohorts roamed Dallas in capes and leotards pretending to be Italian acrobats. But today’s mirthless philistines are doing more to butcher...

Don't Sell the Times ... Yet
 Don't Sell the Times... Yet 
OPINION
May 14, 2009 8:15 AM CDT

Don't Sell the Times... Yet

(Newser) - The New York Times' ruling Ochs-Sulzberger family has a “habit of buying high and selling low,” writes John Gapper of the Financial Times. The clan sold the paper’s old Times Square building at a bargain price and bought back shares near their zenith. Now Arthur Sulzberger Jr....

No Newspaper Is Worth Saving—in Its Current Form

(Newser) - It's only a matter of time before major American newspapers become nonprofits, writes Simon Dumenco in Advertising Age. The idea—he himself wrote about it in 2006, borrowing from the model of the Guardian—is "an inevitability," he writes. And now that a few "suddenly panicky" senators...

WSJ Plans Micro-Payments for Web Access

News Corp. paper will charge for individual articles

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal will introduce a system of micro-payments for access to articles on its website, becoming the first newspaper to charge readers for individual stories. The service will target casual users unlikely to pay more than $100 for an annual online subscription, editor-in-chief Robert Thomson told the Financial ...

With News, 'We Get What We Pay For'
 With News, 
 'We Get What 
 We Pay For' 
OPINION
May 10, 2009 11:15 AM CDT

With News, 'We Get What We Pay For'

Sick media must not die

(Newser) - We know the mainstream media is sick, but it doesn’t have to die, writes Frank Rich in the New York Times. When television appeared, people worried it would eat movies, Broadway, and radio; all these forms still exist, having “learned to adapt and to collaborate with the monster....

Globe Strikes Deal With Last Holdout Union

Paper likely to remain in business as employees take major cuts

(Newser) - The Boston Globe and its largest union struck a tentative deal early this morning that will likely keep the newspaper's owner, the New York Times Company, from shutting down the title. The union representing more than 600 employees in the editorial and advertising divisions was the last holdout in negotiations...

Onion to Slice SF, LA Editions: Source

(Newser) - Not even satirical daily paper the Onion can escape the woes of the print industry—it's shutting down its San Francisco and Los Angeles editions tomorrow, a source tells Gawker’s Ryan Tate. The Onion launched the editions in 2005 and 2006, respectively, well into the newspaper crisis, notes Tate,...

Globe Guild Execs Got Raises as Members Went Without

(Newser) - The leaders of the Boston Globe’s biggest union have given themselves substantial raises over the past 3 years, even as the people they represent went without, the Herald reports. Boston Newspaper Guild president Dan Totten—who recently lambasted New York Times Co. execs for giving themselves extra days off...

As NY Plays Hardball, Globe Swings in Wind

Tensions high as last union works toward deal with Times Co.

(Newser) - Tensions are high as the last of seven Boston Globe unions tries to hammer out a deal with the New York Times Company, the Washington Post reports. The Boston Newspaper Guild has blasted the Times Co’s “bullying tactics” in negotiations set to resume as soon as today, but...

NY Times to Notify Feds It's Shutting Globe

(Newser) - The New York Times will file a required 60-day notice with federal authorities that it plans to shut the storied Boston Globe, newspaper officials said last night. Tense negotiations with unions failed to produce millions of dollars in savings Times representatives say are necessary to continue Globe operations. The Newspaper...

NYT Readers Brain Dead: WSJ Editor

USA Today also slammed—maybe

(Newser) - Media-to-media relations are starting to resemble reality shows, writes Ryan Tate in Gawker—maybe this will up readership. In a staff memo about circulation growth, the Wall Street Journal managing editor slammed the New York Times, writing “there are two measures of mortality, brain death and the day the...

Obama Thrives On Disintegrating Media
 Obama Thrives On 
 Disintegrating Media 
Analysis
Apr 27, 2009 7:39 AM CDT

Obama Thrives On Disintegrating Media

(Newser) - The White House is watching the old media paradigm disintegrate with just a touch of opportunistic glee, reports Jon Ward of the Washington Times. “There are so many places that are driving the news that, in the end, nothing gets driven,” says press secretary Robert Gibbs. That makes...

Red Sox Owner Offers to Buy Boston Globe

Tycoon wants NYT Co.'s 17.75% share of team

(Newser) - The New York Times Company might be able kill two birds with one pitch. Red Sox principle owner John Henry recently told the company that he’d be willing to buy the Times’ 17.75% stake in the team, and that, if he did, the Times Co. could throw in...

One-Stop Web Portal Thinks It Can Save Newspapers

Group thinks consumers will be willing to pay for one-stop web portal

(Newser) - A web portal planned by some top media execs may be the way forward for beleagured newspapers. Journalism Online would act as a “one-stop shop” for pay content, writes Nate Anderson for Ars Technica. Consumers could buy subscriptions to many newspapers at low prices, and with a sliding scale...

'I Made a Mistake' Buying Tribune Co.: Zell

Canny investor admits he backed a losing horse

(Newser) - Sam Zell is famous for his business acumen. He made a near-psychic call to sell his office-property company for billions just months before the market tanked. But the magnate now tells Bloomberg another deal he made was as boneheaded, in retrospect, as the Equity Office Properties deal was prescient: buying...

As Economy Dives, Street Papers Thrive

Interest rising in quirky newspapers created by the homeless

(Newser) - Street papers—newspapers created and sold by the homeless—are enjoying a small boom, even as mainstream papers feel the brunt of the economic crisis. It’s not just because of growing interest in these local papers’ quirky coverage, the New York Times reports. As the ranks of the down-and-out...

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