The Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City, Okla. has reorganized it’s management structure moving Chris Reen, VP of Sales and Marketing, to Executive VP of the Oklahoma Publishing Group overseeing News & Information, Advertising and Marketing, Audience Development and Community Engagement. “Harmonizing our business, editorial, Web and technical assets is key [...]

Since I wielded the shovel quiet a few years ago, I haven’t understood why a newspaper hasn’t stood up and said online news is a different business from print newspaper and shouldn’t require us shoveling the entire print contents on to the web site early every morning. Well, Howard Owen [...]

“Newspapers like the Dallas Morning News, the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Minneapolis Star Tribune are hurting not because they’re local, but because they’re not local enough. And as they try to figure out how to be local, they’re discovering they lack the proper tools. [...]

The MLB is at odds with the media again in it’s debate over whether or not it can own the facts of the game. This time is a bit more interesting because they are mad at ESPN– the cable channel that helps sustain baseball as everything else is letting them [...]

The Washington Post has sent a memo around focusing on their Ten Web Principles. The basic thrust of their principles is that the newsroom exists as much for their web product as the print newspaper. Apparently, there has been some friction in the newsroom over changes made for their website. [...]

The NCAA ejected a Louisville Courier-Journal reporter from a NCAA Division 1 Baseball tournament today citing a violation of it’s media credentialing agreement as the reporter live blogged the game. I have to admit the reporter did break the NCAA’s media credentialing agreement– I’ve signed the same agreement and it [...]

The publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette recently wrote an opinion piece promoting the lack of dramatic circulation losses at the Democrat-Gazette as a result of requiring a paid subscription to view the news stories online. This opinion piece also appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The obvious problem with [...]

In Commonwealth magazine there was an interesting article about how the very best ownership model for newspaper could be owned by a non-profit foundation. In the article Dan Kennedy writes… “Ownership, though, remains a hot topic—not just in Boston, but nationally. The Times Company, like Gannett and McClatchy, is a [...]

My wife thinks MSNBC use of the Virginia Tech shooter’s photo is irresponsible. I’m not completely in that boat, but I could be persuaded to climb on board. The irresponsible argument chases down the possibility of copycats and the feelings of the families and those close to the victims. On [...]

I don’t think newspaper’s are dying, but many of the web’s top prognosticators are speculating that we are seeing the beginning of the end…. Robert Scoble Tim O’Reilly Dave Winer Doc Searls Ryan Sholin I do agree with them that if the newspaper industry as a whole doesn’t wake-up and [...]