So, you want to be a journalist!
By Brooklyn Lee at xtranormal…
Door closed, site opened
When Gannett closed its Honolulu Advertiser, its entertainment Website (Metromix Honolulu) went with it. Today, a number of former Metromix staffers, cast adrift in the mid-Pacific, launched a replacement site…
Stepping into the future
While News Corp is best known in the US for Fox films and Fox TV, the company has lots of newsprint on its hands as well (including the NY Post,…
Headless woman
One of my kids asked me the other day why the NY Post — which we have home-delivered, so they see it over breakfast — had used a celebrity photo…
Paywall rises
Rupert Murdoch’s dropped his other shoe. After months of ranting about how the internet’s been stealing his lunch, come June his Times and Sunday Times newspapers will be the first…
Facebook “spreads syphilis”
An official with Britain’s National Health Service said “Facebook and similar sites were to blame for a shocking rise in cases of potentially-lethal syphilis,” The Sun reports from London. “Social…
Campaigning for British readers
With circulation and ad revenues tanking industry-wide, some might think that Rupert Murdoch’s English Sun — along with the rest of the newspaper industry — is setting. But Murdoch’s News…
For Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal’s New York edition is not just business. It’s personal.
Rupert Murdoch made two things quite clear yesterday: The Wall Street Journal‘s New York edition will launch in April (as long reported but never before publicly confirmed), and its target…
Governor says Honolulu doesn’t need 2 newspaper voices — it has the internet.
When Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser proposed buying — and shuttering — the rival Star-Bulletin in 2000, the state of Hawaii stepped in to block the sale. Last week, when David Black’s…