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The Democratic blog "Raising
Kaine" is set to close, leaving the Web open for the GOP.
Virginia Blogs mentioned:
-Raising Kaine
-Bearing Drift
-Vivian Paige
Publicist files defamation suit against The Hook
-The Hook Sued for Defamation
-Senior’s star: Buckingham publicist sues the Hook
Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source
The New York Times Company Reports November Revenues
Washington Post and Baltimore Sun to Share Content
| E&P
Leaner Times Lead To Lower Standards For Online Ads? Perish The Thought
Big Gains Among Top 30 Newspaper Web Sites
Va. Pilot names Donald Luzzatto new editor of editorial page (Dennis Hartig retiring)
WaPo's
Jim Brady resigns
(Official
Statement | Paid
Content)...Digital-Print Integration: The Fast Track
Editor Franklin Steps Out of
the (Baltimore) 'Sun' for Teaching Post
Newspaper Shuns Web, and Thrives
GateHouse sues NYT Co. over local websites
Collusion Solution?
-How to save the newspaper industry
(via)
-Newspapers can’t keep distributing content for free on Web...THEY SHOULD COLLUDE
Huffington Post Blasted For Stealing Content
Newspapers Suddenly Adapt To Socal Media; Nearly 60 Percent Offer User-Gen Content
Why is the Richmond Times-Dispatch Lifting Photos from
Flickr?
Rethinking Richmond Magazine
Channel 12 lays off 7, including Hamlin,
Lepley, Richardson
-Out with the Old on Channel 12
-Death, Taxes, Gene, Sabrina, Jim and Ben?
-NBC12
website silent about story as of 12-17,930pm
-NBC12
Staff Bios
Your Guide to Alternative Business Models for Newspapers
-No Magic Potion For Ailing Newspapers, But A Cocktail Of Remedies Might Help
Tools to Engage Young Adults in News Make Use of Facebook
-NewsMixer: An Innovative Community News Framework
InRich Is the New
RVANews?
RVA
Blogs: clean up your act! A few friendly suggestions
-What's Wrong With RVA
Blogs?...
Retorts:
-Removed Blog response:
Screw 'em if they can't take a joke
-RVA Blogs Is...
Waaaaaahhhhhhh!
RVA Snooze
Are bloggers & social networks killing the big shows?
News-oriented Websites Have a Future
Daily newspapers on life-support
-Read all about it: newspapers are done for
Who Will Report the News?
What's killing newspapers is the same thing that killed the slide rule.
(via)
The Death of the Times-Dispatch
(ex-employee's POV)
An Obit for the T-D
Media General Reports November 2008 Revenues
Times-Dispatch website quickly improves...but steals our colors
The Times-Dispatch is about to raise its Sunday rate to $2/copy
Richmond, come on.
Richmond
Good Life's Special Coverage of New and Old Media
This blog is twitterfied
Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time
Tim O'Reilly Talks Twitter on Science Friday
Ways to Monetize Twitter
TechCrunch Coverage of New Apps: So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter?
| The Notorious Sam Sethi Launches His Latest Venture,
Twitblogs. | Inevitably, Twitter Profile Pics Turned Into HotOrNot Game
| Twitter Humiliates MySpace
Last Week's Twitter Coverage
Knight Foundation Funds Four Online Community News Sites
-What does ‘online first’ mean in your newsroom?
(via)
New Hearst Newspapers President: 'Tough Decisions' Ahead (100 Days of Change)
Bold Transformation of Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News Lead Nation and Industry With Expanded Digital Offerings; Launch of New Magazine; Colorful, Easy-to-Use Newsstand Editions
-Analysts Ask: Detroit Plan a 'Big Step' -- But Not Enough?
-Former
'Freep' Publisher Meriwether: Delivery Cuts Good and Bad
-CNN: Detroit newspapers to end daily home delivery
-Stung by rising costs and shrinking advertising revenue
-Live-Blogging the Detroit Press Conference: 200 Workers To Be Cut, But Commitment to News Excellence, More
Size Doesn’t Matter: An Analysis Of Online News and Political Sites
Hyperlocal Content Network Outside.In Adds Funding
Interview: New NYT.com GM Denise Warren: Tip-toeing Into Aggregation With Guarded Optimism
Floricane, a NEW Creative
Facilitation company
WUSA Moves to One-Person News Crews
Digg'n' All That the Web Has to Offer
A Blogger Walks Into A
Bar...
How to Use Twitter as a Twool
50 Ways to Use Twitter for Business
(via)
The true meaning of Twitter
Writing My Twitter Etiquette Article: 14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely
(via)
Twitter as a Conversation
Platform...Continued
New Frontiers of Connectedness: The Case for “Twitter Conversations”
Top Ten Folks You Shouldn't Follow on Twitter
Twibes: Follow The Leader
An advance copy of the Washington Post's reorganization plan
-Graham: Would Borrow For Great Asset But Wouldn’t Drown Company In Debt
-Weymouth Probes Future of 'Wash Post'
-Save the Whales!
Media General Presents at UBS Global Media & Communications Conference
(self-article)
-Media General debt pressures ease with new terms... bargains with creditors...reducing debt load by 19%
Times-Dispatch lays off 18 employees
-Editor
and Publisher
Beyond Tribune: More Bankruptcies Possible?
Gannett Chief: We Know How to Manage Through Bad Times
| Gannett’s ContentOne Ties Local Content With National Ads
NPR Laying Off 64 Employees, 7 Percent of Staff; Cancels Two Programs
-Press
Release
Urban Views Weekly was created to celebrate black Richmond. So why is it so secretive?
-Urban Views Weekly
-Rewind: Free Press Editor Accuses Ukrop's of Racial Bias
In Maryland You Might Have No Anonymity As Commenter
Correction...Read, Drink, & Be Merry
Still Alive, too!
The Gray Lady:
-CEO: Family Says NYTCo Not For Sale; Fundraising Won’t Include About.com
-The Newspaper Bubble, Too, Has Burst
-NYT Co.: No Plans to Sell -- Will 'Weather' 2009
-New York Times: Our Digital Ads “Could Be Under Great Stress”
-New York Times Lowers Expectations—Again; Considering Financing Alternatives
-Oh, Great: New York Times
(NYT) Online Business Falling Apart Now, Too
The
New RVANews Re-design
-RVA News Has Arrived
-It is disappointing to see the community weblogs get nudged into a less visible corner
Tribune Co. files for bankruptcy protection
-Note from the Daily Press' Publisher on Tribune Co. filing for bankruptcy protection
-What went wrong?...Zell could recoup investment, but employees likely won't
-Zell's memo to employees about Tribune bankruptcy
-Message
to Advertisers
-Bankruptcy
Filing
-Press
Release
What happens to Cubs?
| Free From Tribune’s Bankruptcy Filing, Cubs Proceed as Usual
Media Reaction:
-Editor
and Publisher | Inside
the Newsroom
-Paid
Content | Its Debt to Media Companies
| Sam Zell’s Plan D: It’s All About Buying Time
-Businesweek
-Chicago
Reader
-Chicago
Sun Times
-Industry
Standard
-NY
Times
-Recovering
Journalist
-Va.
Gazette
Rewind:
Sam Zell
At Last: Pulitzer Prizes Expand to Include Web-Only News Outlets
How to Start A Local Media Company: Threaten Local Bloggers by Edible Communities, Inc.
The end of the road for Coming South of the James: Rebooted?
| Twitter
Announcement
The end of the experiment for Carver & Jackson Ward News, River District News, and Hills & Heights?
New Bacon's Rebellion
Editors (Thomas Jefferson Public Policy Institute) Censoring Long-time Member?
–The Bacon's Rebellion
E-zine and the King James Bible
-Could Bloggers Have Stopped Hitler?
TimesDispatch.com Launching New, More Interactive,
Site...Opens up anon comments...
-Graphic
TobaccoAvenue Publisher Dies in Fiery Plane Crash
;)
-Correction
The
New RVANews Re-design
-RVA News Has Arrived
The end of the road for Coming South of the James: Rebooted?
| Twitter
Announcement
The end of the experiment for Carver & Jackson Ward News, River District News, and Hills & Heights?
New Bacon's Rebellion
Editors (Thomas Jefferson Public Policy Institute) Censoring Long-time Member?
–The Bacon's Rebellion
E-zine and the King James Bible
TimesDispatch.com Launching New, More Interactive,
Site...Opens up anon comments...
-Rewind:
The New TimesDispatch.com
Content and Its Discontents
The Future of Richmond Media Today?
Do or do not. There is no try.
Sure, Newspapers Could Just Die A Painful Death; But Here’s Another Option...Go not-for-profit
Social Media Changing Journalism and PR
Ted Leonsis Hits 5,000 Facebook Friends...or maybe not
-Post: No More Facebook Friends for Ted Leonsis | Times
New citizen journalism opportunities
-Open Assignments
South of the James: Rebooted: Last Call (for writers)...
Whither the
Weblogs?
Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream
-What Blogger Should Do (via)
JMLumpkin's newest GeoDomain Venture!
-Alexandria.com
Carpooling meets Twitter: Will Generation Y change the face of commuting?
Sale process for The Virginian-Pilot is put on hold
Company says Landmark is infringing on its patent
Newspaper sales fell almost $2B in one quarter
-Stats
-Yes, It is Bad
POWER BLOGS...
Dept
of Blogiology 101: Richmond
-in
vino veritas
-Buttermilk
& Molasses/North Richmond News
-10
S Boulevard
Virginia's
Most Influential Political blogs
-J’s
Notes Is “Influential”
New Media, Social Media and Your Small Business: Pay Attention or Pay Too Much
CMOs aren’t interested in social networking, but you should be
Bad in So Many Ways
Craigslist or the Economy? Where are the Jobs
Why
The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan Blogs
Why Tim O'Reilly Loves Twitter
-Twitter Evolution
Newspaper sales fell almost $2B in one quarter
-Stats
-Yes, It is Bad
Ten Ways to Keep a Newspaper Strong
10SBoulevard Universally Praised!
-Why The Richmond Times-Dispatch is Dying
-Tobacco Avenue
Times-Dispatch
Print Circulation Increasing With Launch Of Shit-Awful New Web Site
Spit out your
coffee funny!
Chesterfield Observer circulation tops
54,00...a 15.3 percent increase
Quadrangle
Foursquare Conference
-As Media Shatters, Jeff Jarvis Is Ideologue Seer of New Age; ‘Journalists? They’re Community Organizers!’ Says Professor; ‘He and I Edged Closer,’ Says Bill Keller; ‘Bullshit,’ Says Jarvis
-Sam Zell's Sell: The former real estate mogul discusses his approach to newspapers...The New Boss’s Salty Language Raises Eyebrows at His Papers
-Want To Hear What Katie Couric Said Yesterday?...Shhhhhh!
Media, Tech Moguls Meeting Today. Don’t Tell Anyone
-Quadrangle to Close Media-Focused Fund
-2007 Conference
Media General fills key leadership roles
Newspapers and many magazines, lusting after younger readers, seem to have adopted a take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward older readers
Here
it is, the new RichmondMagazine.com
-What's New for Richmond Magazine
Print Media Deathwatch?
-Blood in the Water
Watching
the Times struggle (and what you can learn)
Editorial
page editor of The Virginian-Pilot to retire
Virginian-Pilot cuts 125 jobs, plans to reduce paper's size
-'Virginian-Pilot' Cutting 10% of Work Force...Dear
readers, Link is closing
Cindy Woods 1956-2008
-Learning Daily
Style
Weekly on Twitter
The New TimesDispatch.com
-Livejournal: Local online media
-Rederederederedesign
-Times-Dispatch
Print Circulation Increasing With Launch Of Shit-Awful New Web Site
Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
Charlottesville Photographer Matt Rosenberg Threatens Spicy Bear Media and Demands $2,500
Media General Reports September 2008 Revenues
Media General shares take beating...Media General shares down to $3
Media General share price falls another 20 percent as hedge fund pulls stakes
NY Times, Media General fall on Harbinger's moves
Newspapers' Credibility Problem -- The Financial One
Venerable Style Editor, Rozanne Epps, Dies
-Remembering Rozanne Epps
-My Secret Mentor
-Brave
Engagement
South
of the James: Rebooted Wants You
Richmond
Bizsense Wants You
R.I.P., Richmond.com
-Former Editor Mourns the Rebirth of Richmond.com
-Thumbs Down
-Richmond.com, Meet Corporate Overlords
-Special
Report: Richmond.com Sold!
Newspapers Jettisoning Top Talent to Cut Costs
NY Times columnist able to weave Circuit City case study to Media General
American Press Institute CEO Summit on Saving an Industry in Crisis Reston, Va.
-API Summit Concludes: Industry in 'Crisis,' Needs Outside Help
-List of API "Crisis Summit" Attendees
(Locals: Michael G. Abernathy, president Landmark Community Newspapers, Reid Ashe, EVP, COO Media General, Robert Dickey, president U.S. community publishing, Gannett, Maurice Jones, publisher, The Virginian-Pilot, Michelle Krans, SVP, strategy, development, Gannett, Thomas McDevitt, president The Washington Times, Thomas Silvestri, president and publisher Richmond Times-Dispatch)
-Rewind: The Push for Innovation in Richmond, Va.
-Related: How Industries Survive Change. If They Do
Murdoch Boyer Lecture: The Golden Age of Freedom
-WSJ.com’s Third Super-Premium Tier Coming?
-Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole
-Murdoch to 'Cynics': Newspapers Will Survive
-Complacency rather than competition hurts media
-Murdoch to Aussies: embrace technology
-Murdoch To Hacks: Quit Whining
More in this Lecture series:
Antony Loewenstein: The Blogging Revolution
South of the James: Rebooted Wants You
RVA, WINNER of 2 AGD AWARDS for 2008
-Three Cheers (and a Couple of Awards) for RVA Magazine!
The Virginian-Pilot, affiliated companies considering layoffs
South of the James Returns!...Rebooted
-A Blogger Returns
Virginia Classified Papers
(aka the Trading Post) Sold to 'Hopewell News' Publisher
Media General announces purchase of
Richmond.com (Final
Edition)
-Human side of the purchase:
On
Richmond.com and my last week…
| Who
Do You Think You Are?
(Hell hath no fury...)
-Purchase of Richmond.com...Readers weigh in on the good, the bad and the ugly of Richmond.com
-Richmond Times-Dispatch Parent Buys Richmond.com
-Media General buys Richmond.com...InRich pulling from Richmond.com already
-Virginia
Business
-Crazy news about Richmond.com this
is where the inside gossip is happening (comments section)
-People Talking to Each Other
-Something about that name?
-Domain Is Everything, and the TD's Got Itself A New Domain...Richmond.com
Requiem…What’s next for Richmond area media?
-Richmond.com purchased by Media General
-Eaten by a Shark!
-Area Blogger Hoping Media General Buys Him Next...Damn those unruly kids
-Richmond.com
Twitter | Inrich
Twitter | Twitter
Search Richmond.com
Was the Writing on the Wall?
-Richmond.com's
CTO: Moving on to different things… (October 14)
-R’Biz
fading into the night
Landmark Suspends Sale of Properties, Keeps 'Virginian-Pilot' on the Block
NEW
STYLE WEEKLY ONLINE LAUNCHED!
-NOW WITH COMMENTS
-Durnit, I have to update old links
New
Richmond Magazine Re-Design Looms, too
(11-24)
Slaughtering the Cash Cows a Bit Too Early
Carriers canned as Post farms out local delivery
Condé Nast Cuts Focus on 2 Magazines...The End of This Blog
R’Biz fading into the night
Circulation decline follows U.S. trend; However, T-D's print and online audience is stable, paper says
Deputy Editor Bart Hinkle has been awarded the International Policy Network’s 2008 Bastiat Prize for Journalism
Observations On The Richmond Times-Dispatch and Brick Weekly
Washingtonpost.com
relaunches its City Guide as the "Going Out Guide"
-Going Out
Guide
Grab the Official Widget of Washington, DC!
Most Major Papers Continue Circ Decline
Newspaper web site audience increases sixteen percent in third quarter to 68.3 million visitors
How The New York Times
(NYT) Can Save Itself
My Insight: You Must Be Nuts...Times-Dispatch Goes Over the Deep End
What Newspapers Can Learn From the Tech
Industry
The Traditional Banner Ad Business May Be In Even More Trouble Than You Think...Counting
Clicks: Now A Mainstay
...Let's Be Serious: Online Display Ads Will Fall Sharply In 2009...Woe to Web 2.0 Start-Ups: Too Few Ads to Go Around
Earnings: Media General Reports Higher Q3 Earnings Aided By Politics, Olympics; Narrows Digital Loss...TV Boosts Media General...Newspaper revenue continues to fall at MG
Advertising Online: Why Advertising Dollars Will Move Away from Traditional Mediums and Onto the Internet
Online Display Ad Prices Fall To Lowest Point This Year
Newspapers’
Web Revenue Is Stalling
Dark times for Web ads: Analysts cut forecasts
Monroe Ward is kaput
Washington City Paper Seeks Journalism Bankruptcy
In the Media World, Only Constant is Change
Mass Comm Week '08
| Press
Release
-VCU forum takes up future of news media
F* an alt-weekly. Become and
Alt-monthly
Richmond
Wiki! | Blog
Editor James Bacon Leaves Richmond.com's R'Biz for Boomer Project
-Boomer Project
-RBiz loses its pilot
-Another News Blogger Fades Away
-I'll Be Back
Richmond blogger being sued or
punked?...Update
Rewind: The Wild, Wild Web; How do libel laws apply to
bloggers, citizen journalists?
-Johnny Law Focuses on Bloggers
The downward side of the local media curve
Washington
City Paper Owner Files for Bankruptcy
-Washington
City Paper
Check out
the Times Dispatch's new Things to Do guide |
Things
to Do
The knowledge economy craves information more than ever, but newspapers and print media are imploding. Where will Virginians get their news in the Internet age?
-The Numerati
-Bacon's Rebellion Last Issue??
Landmark Communications sells online marketer
| Q Interactive
Times-Dispatch cries "wolf" over First Amendment
Justice department says Sinclair can't buy WTVR...Investigate
that Mark Holmberg! | Media Week
| CNNMoney.com
| Broadcasting & Cable
Daily paper stays negative on state of real estate market
Is The T-D Website About to Finally Change?
The Most Powerful Man in Richmond: #1 William Goodwin
Style's Fifth Annual Power List
|
WRVA Inteview (audio)
| Rewind:
Buttermilk and Molasses Speculation
A
Board Member
of
Wachovia
The Most Powerful Woman in Richmond: #9 Allison Weinstein, a trustee
at the University of
Richmond and
President of Weinstein Properties
Management
New Media Duo (John
Murden of Church
Hill People’s News
and Ross
Catrow of RVABlogs)
Split the
Coveted 75th Spot!...
Reaction:
-Buttermilk and Molasses |
Popular
Not Powerful
-Made in Richmond
-River City Rapids
-RVANews
What’s missing in Richmond most is what’s missing on Style’s Power List
Screw
the Power Elite
How
does Richmond define “powerful”?
Veteran Richmond news anchor Gene Cox has reportedly gone “absolutely apeshit”
over his rejection on Style Weekly’s annual Power List... (WRVA’s
Been Had
| Gene Cox unfazed
|
Old Media Is Eating New Media's Pulsating Heart
| The
RT-D on the TA/WRVA Cox story episode) |
HE
has a sense of humor...Loves
biting monkey stories more than anything else
Jack
Goes Forth to crash this party...
Rewiring the Times-Dispatch
Jackess of All Trades
Will online advertising revenues increase enough to offset the decline in print
ad sales?
Daily Press Reduces Staff
Ad sales tumble 16% at NY Times...Raises Newsstand Price to $1.50
| New York Times May Face Junk Rating, S&P Warns
|
Extra! Extra! Credit Concerns at New York Times!
Papers v Blogs Part 2 (Part
1)
Roanoke
Times: Bloggers on the take
| Duh…..Me noT L!ke bLogs
Roanoke Times “Discovers” Blogging and Is Scared
New
Style Weekly Beta
via B&M
and Style
Newspapers vs. blogs
-Tiny robot has lessons for media - and citizens
-Newspapers: “Woe is me”
-The Virginian Pilot v. Virginia Bloggers
A look at 143 years of Progress-Index history
Pay more, get less
Media General Consolidates Virginia Dailies' Printing (The Daily Progress and Times-Dispatch)
Times Dispatch in
Trouble... Style Weekly, too...
| Clarification:
Style "Not in Trouble"
Style's
Long Overdue Electronic Upgrade
Los
Angeles Times, too
Why
I cancelled my Times Dispatch subscription
J. Stewart Bryan to retire as exec at Media General |
Board adds Former Directors Ousted By Harbinger
Final
Gift: 23 Cent Dividend
Delicately
writing about your boss
Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue
Richmond Bloggers Gain New Powers
(Call
and Recap)
Richmond's Status As Weblog Capital Builds on Past
Richmond’s Buzzing Blogosphere
| Citizen Journalism: The Professor’s View
Why a 2nd tier city leads the nation
A Hotbed of Citizen Journalism Part Two
| Part
1
Richmond's Status As Weblog Capital Builds on Past
Community Blogging Center of the Universe?
Henrico County Leader and the Far West End Press close shop
Analysis
Blame
it ALL on Craigslist
The Times-Dispatch will publish 16 to 20 fewer pages each
week
The Great TD Revamp: Much Ado
Why can't some newspapers figure out new media?
"I Feel Your Angst"
A Hotbed of Citizen Journalism Part Two
| Part
1
Richmond's Status As Weblog Capital Builds on Past
Community Blogging Center of the Universe?
Henrico County Leader and the Far West End Press close shop
Analysis
Blame
it ALL on Craigslist
The Times-Dispatch will publish 16 to 20 fewer pages each
week
The Great TD Revamp: Much Ado
Why can't some newspapers figure out new media?
"I Feel Your Angst"
T-D revising newspaper section lineup next week
| Launch changes in newspaper next Monday
Honey, I Shrunk the Newspaper
Retooling the News
Laid Off Second Life
Happy
Six Month Birthday, River District News!
Media
should mix-up and collaborate
Media General versus
Harbinger Capital Partners
-The Economist: On the brink; Some of America's most venerable newspapers face extinction, unless they evolve
-Classifieds down? Not in Real Estate
-Times-Dispatch's circulation falls, Readership increases
-National
Trends (Top
20)
-The Worst Investment in America?
-Executive Editor Glenn Proctor Discusses Ethics
-With So Much News, No One Gets It All
-Response: Too Much News, They Say
-Sign
o' the NY Times
(Rewind:
Hubris)
-Fortune: Harbinger of things to come in the news business?
-More
Help with the Noose
-CLOSURE
Part 1: Media General shareholders elect new directors from Harbinger
-Death by Proxy
-Media General Reports First-Quarter 2008 Results
-Media General March revenue down on classified ad softness
-Calls
Tampa Market, Its "Crown Jewel"
-Board fight a boost to Media General,
Shares Up 8%
-Next
Target: The NY Times?
-Harbinger's Philip Falcone Earned $1.7-billion in 2007
-Fortune: Harbinger wins key shareholder support in its proxy battle with Bryan-family controlled Media
General
-Reuters: Gabelli backs Harbinger's Media General slate
-Media General To Harbinger: You Just Don't Get Us
-Rewind: Harbinger Takes Stake in Media General
Dear
Richmond Media, Cite your F'ing Sources...
Richmond
Magazine: Where Richmond’s news-gatherers get the skinny
When
Blogs Do Good
Mea
Culpa 1: Media General's Self-Analysis
(Intro)
Mea
Culpa 2: Media General's Self-Analysis of its Blogs
Washington
Post 6, Times Dispatch 0
(List
of All Winners)
The Future of
the TD...
Why
the Richmond Times-Dispatch is Dying Chimes In
Chesterfield
Weekly Chimes In
Washington
Post Chimes In
Top Blogging City
-Richmond ranks #1 in
community/ citizen
journalism (Full
Report)
-A
medium-sized self-congratulatory moment (AKA “we’re #1″, or, “take
that Dallas!”)
-Richmond leading nation in 'citizen journalism'
| Richmond a ‘hotbed of citizen journalism’
-Finally
-- Richmond Gets First Place (for Weblogging)
-Super-hyper local
community blog to launch Thursday
|