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NOLA’s NPR affiliate talks to me on “The Reading Life” and “My Spilt Milk”...
Susan Larson, host of WWNO’s “The Reading Life” Susan Larson, host of WWNO’s “The Reading Life” and former longtime Times-Picayune books editor (she and I worked together at the paper, but she left in...
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Lagniappe, Mobile’s alt-weekly, excerpts the book
The Press-Register of Mobile, Alabama, was one of three Advance Publications newspapers in that state that were subjected to “digital first” on the same day as The Times-Picayune. (The other two were...
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A year after “digital first” in NOLA and Alabama, deciphering Advance’s...
NOTE: Corrections below in underline and strike-through, making the distinction between digital non-replicas (smart phone and tablet apps) and digital replicas (PDFs). The semi-annual figures compiled...
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Seven former T-P employees laid off in “digital first” sue newspaper, parent...
Seven former T-P employees who were among the more than 200 who lost their jobs in 2012 because of the radical “digital first” restructuring Advance Publications undertook at the newspaper and more...
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Is year-end assessment by NOLA Media Group prez a preemptive strike ahead of...
1/6/2014, 2:50 PM CST: Information about the disappearing NOLA.com blog post about the click bait AntHillArt.com’s affect on NOLA.com’s traffic below in red and underline.. 12/24/13 5:59 PM CST:...
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Union-organized protest at Advance Publications’ Jersey Journal
UPDATE, Jan. 8, 2014: Bill O’Meara, president, New York Newspaper Guild, local 31003, which represents the eight-person Jersey Journal newsroom and nearly 3,000 additional newspaper employees including...
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CJR.org looks at The Cleveland Plain Dealer since “digital first”
The Columbia Journalism Review keeps the heat on Advance Publications, with another hard-hitting look at another Advance newspapers to undergo “digital first.” From the opening of the story: “As a...
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Just in Time for Katrina@10, Times-Picayune to Cut More Staff
Banner story in The Times-Picayune on June 17, 2012, by newly named publisher Ricky Mathews, promising the-then 175-year-old newspaper and its newer website would remain a fixture in New Orleans. As...
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From the Ashes: Former Times-Picayune ME/News Dan Shea Promoted to Publisher...
Former longtime Times-Picayune Managing Editor/News Dan Shea read about his imminent dismissal in the pages of The New York Times. His would be among the most high-profile ousters of wholesale...
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Advance Publications Mid-Year Performance a Mixed Bag
July marked a rash of self-assessment by the newspaper industry, including by the local newspaper division of Times-Picayune owner Advance Publications. Randy Siegel, president of Advance Local, twice...
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Third Round of Layoffs in 3 Years at NOLA Media Group
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune today carried out its expected third round of layoffs since its “digital first” transformation in September 2012, letting go 37 full- and part-time editorial employees, or...
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