Posted by James Brosher at 6:04 pm on Monday, January 5, 2009 | No Comments »
Amid drastically declining advertising revenues, the New York Times did something today it has never done in its 158-year history: the newspaper sold a front-page ad.
CBS purchased today’s ad, which ran across the bottom of the page.
“This high-impact placement represents an exciting new opportunity for our advertisers,” Denise Warren, chief advertising officer for The New York Times Media Group, told Editor & Publisher.
The Times would not disclose the price of the ad.
The paper has sold small classified liners on the front page in the past, but today was the first time it has sold a display ad on the front page.
Several newspapers already sell front-page ads, but the Times is one of the last major dailies to sell a front-page ad.
The move is representative of a newspaper industry rapidly bleeding advertising revenue.
The Times reported advertising revenue plummeted 20.9 percent in November.
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Posted by James Brosher at 5:02 am on Monday, January 5, 2009 | No Comments »
National sports columnist Jay Mariotti has taken a job at AOL Sports.
Mariotti, a longtime columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, sparked controversy when he resigned via email on Aug. 26, 2008. He reportedly used two words in his message: “I quit.”
“I’m doubly thrilled to flee the darker corners of the newspaper business, which was reminding me of Marley the dog in his final days,” he wrote in his first AOL column published today.
Mariotti was one of only two Sun-Times writers sent to China to cover the Beijing Summer Olympics last August. He resigned two days after the closing ceremony.
He rehashes his decision to leave the Sun-Times for the internet in his column entitled, “Sunnier Times in New Mainstream Media.” He said a near-death experience in China along with a disagreement with editors back in the states about deadlines pushed him to make the jump to online media.
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Posted by James Brosher at 8:53 pm on Sunday, January 4, 2009 | No Comments »
A Washington lobbyist is suing The New York Times for $27 million, claiming the newspaper falsely created the impression that the lobbyist had a romantic affair with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
The suit, filed Tuesday in the Federal District Court in Richmond, Va., argues a Feb. 21 front-page article “falsely communicated” that lobbyist Vicki L. Iseman and McCain “had an illicit ‘romantic’ and unethical relationship in breach of the public trust in 1999.”
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Posted by James Brosher at 7:44 pm on Sunday, January 4, 2009 | No Comments »
Muncie Central's Jeremiah Davis looks to drive the lane during a 53-40 loss on Saturday, Jan. 3 at Jay County in Portland, Ind. (James Brosher/IDS)
PORTLAND, Ind. — On Saturday, I shot a high school basketball game for the first time in more than a year.
At the Indiana Daily Student, we don’t cover high school sports unless it’s a recruit for one of Indiana University’s athletic teams.
That was the case this weekend.
I photographed Jeremiah Davis, a sophomore at Class 4A Muncie Central (4-4), as his team squared off against Class 4A Jay County (5-0). Although he is only a sophomore, Davis is already considering several Division I schools including IU.
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Posted by James Brosher at 2:54 pm on Sunday, January 4, 2009 | No Comments »
Paper Cuts, a blog tracking newspaper layoffs and buyouts, charted at least 15,586 lost jobs in 2008 using Google Maps.
By comparison, site tracked 2,185 job losses from June to December in 2007.
So far this year, the site has tracked at least 210 job losses.
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