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Sons of Steve Garvey blog shares view of current Los Angeles Times, Witnessing A Los Angeles Institution’s Slow Decline to Mediocrity
Here are the first two paragraphs:
The last three months have been gut-wrenching for Los Angelenos, as we have witnessed a beloved Los Angeles landmark slowly erode, descending into mediocrity. Overall quality has suffered, as the […]

This past week, 24/7 Wall Street rated the top 25 newspaper websites.
If newspapers want to stay alive, reading this article is crucial.
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Talk of the Nation has a great interview with Tom Rosenstiel, director of Project for Excellence in Journalism and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, about PEJ’s annual report on the state of news media.
The interview is a must-listen.
The report, a must-read.
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Audio, video, interactive maps and charts, RSS feeds, automatic updates, candidate match-up quizzes, fun and engaging.
Network news and public radio websites may have the more visually-friendly election coverage, but along with newspapers all three entities are using the above devices/elements to cover the U.S. Presidential Election 2008.
From what I’ve observed so far, the one attribute […]

Online edition of The Wall Street Journal writes: Why a Cable-TV network is hiring the ink-stained. AKA ESPN hires away the best of the sports print journalism world.
This is not a new trend. But it is indicative of what will continue to happen throughout the journalism field.
Print getting hit hard now.
Television and radio will be […]

One trend prevalent on the internet that needs extra careful attention from editors is the republishing of old stories which may have some life still left in them.
I’ve seen Yahoo! do this a lot with their wire stories. The story may still be appropriate to run, especially if readers may not have caught it the […]

The “down-sizing” trend continues

More potential layoffs at San Jose Mercury News

60 departing LATimes journalists made their exits this week from the downtown L.A. headquarters once known as Times Mirror Square

Toledo Blade staff accepts pay cuts

Chicago Sun-Times daily circulation drops 8.6% from six months ago

Interview magazine up for sale

One creative solution possibly backed by […]

Friday morning, I was saddened to learn that the majority shareholders of the Dow Jones, publishers of The Wall Street Journal, have made plans to sit down with Rupert Murdoch and negotiate the sale of a high standard publication.
It’s said that one reason for this turnaround is the family’s decision to help the […]

Discovered this video at the Australian site, librariesinteract, which is focusing on what will libraries be like in 2010.
See/read more future visions or submit your own.

Andrew Finegan is the dude behind this future library vision.
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Had to post this pithy slideshow. To watch, you need to hit the forward arrow to head to the next slide.

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