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Police Bribery Probe Expanded After Sun Arrests

Stevie Converse — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:16:28 -0500

Full article: Guardian
Dan Sabbagh
The Scotland Yard team investigating allegations that newspaper journalists bribed police officers to obtain information is to be expanded by almost half after four past and present Sun journalists were arrested just over a week ago.

New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found Newsright

Stevie Converse — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:43:10 -0500

Full article: The Wrap
Lucas Shaw
Newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online. NewsRight puts code into every piece published by the sites it works with -- 841 newspaper sites at this point -- and that code travels with the story across the web. If someone else steals it, NewsRight's database registers it.

Newspapers, Paywalls and Core Users

Stevie Converse — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:18:54 -0500

Full article: Shirky.com
Clay Shirky
This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. This may be the year where we see how papers figure out how to reward the people most committed to their long-term survival. For the moment, at least, the most promising experiment in user support means forgoing mass in favor of passion.

Chicago Sun-Times Sold

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:45 -0500

Full article: Media Post
Erik Sass
The Chicago Sun-Times and a number of other daily and weekly newspapers serving the Chicago area have been acquired by Wrapports. The new company was created by Chicago businessman Michael Ferro and media executive Timothy Knight. The deal is worth over $20 million.

Joe Torres on News for All the People, Amy Alexander on Uncovering Race

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:56:39 -0500

Full article: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
This week on CounterSpin, a special look at race and people of color in U.S. journalism. Told quickly it's a story about under representation and exclusion, of bias -- and of breakthroughs. And all along, recognition that the stories news media tell us about the world and one another are a tremendous shaping force on the state of racial and ethnic understanding and the advance of social justice.

Lots of Newspaper Deals, But Not Much Hope

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:31:03 -0500

Full article: Media Post
Erik Sass
The last three months of 2011 brought a sudden flurry of deals in the newspaper industry, with a number of fair-sized metropolitan and regional dailies trading hands. But the increased pace of deal-making doesn’t reflect improved fundamentals for newspaper publishing, which is expected to suffer another round of losses in 2012.

The Times Selling Regional Media Group for $143 Million

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:52:57 -0500

Full article: New York Observer
Megan McCarthy
The New York Times has announced that it will sell its Regional Media Group to Florida-based Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million in cash. The Regional Media Group consists of 16 regional newspapers including titles like the News Chief of Winter Haven, Florida and Thibodaux, Louisiana's Daily Comet and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

New York Times Unloads Small Dailies for $143 Million

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:48:21 -0500

Full article: New York Post
Keith J. Kelly
The New York Times, as expected, has agreed to sell its regional newspaper group, which includes mostly small daily papers in Florida, the Carolinas and Louisiana, to Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million in cash. Newspaper Guild President Bill O'Meara said he hopes "they would use some of the proceeds to settle our contract."

Media Minutes: October 28, 2011

Candace Clement — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:54:47 -0400

Where commercial media are consolidating and slashing newsroom jobs, vibrant local journalism nonprofits are popping up across the country to fill the gaps. But they’ve hit one big bureaucratic snag with the IRS. And PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley turned to the Media Mobilizing Project to help organize and document his series on poverty in America.

MinnPost Won't Try to Take Advantage When Other Publishers Charge Readers

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:24:20 -0400

Full article: MinnPost
Joel Kramer
Nonprofit news outlet MinnPost.com won't be trying to capitalize on the Star Tribune's new paywall: "For us, it's all about the total news and analysis that concerned Minnesotans have available to them, not just the part we play. It's not just about a consumer good, it's about a public good -- a better informed citizenry."