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Ex-New York Post editor sues paper
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Sandra Guzman, who was fired from her editing job at the New York Post for being critical of the paper after it ran Sean Delonas’ dead chimpanzee cartoon has filed a lawsuit against the paper. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleges the she was “subjected to a hostile work
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Mike Luckovich does cartoons for pro-newspaper campaign
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich is adding his cartooning efforts to an advertising campaign to promote the future of print newspapers. The campaign is called The Newspaper Project spearheaded by a group of newspaper executives who “acknowledge the serious challenges
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Newsday.com moves to subscription model
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Newsday is putting up a pay-wall on their news website beginning next Wednesday. The website is still free for those who subscribe to the newspaper or Optimum Online, a website owned by the internet cable service that also owns the paper. Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper –
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Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson about how to save newspapers
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Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson author of the Time cover story "How to Save Your Newspaper."1981 report on newspapers online is a story from KRON in San Francisco about The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle's forays into online news in 1981.Related posts: Newspapers look to create own ad network
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Is it just me or is this editor a tad bitter?
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Editor Scott Hollifield of The McDowell News (Marion, N.C.) left out the comics in a small town newspaper. And if I do accidentally leave the comics out of the newspaper, I should not go to work the next day. And if I do go to work the next day, I should not answer the phone. [...]
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Spider-Man is still married… in newspapers
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Marvel comics ended the marriage between Spider-Man character Peter Parker and Mary Jane in several comic book titles and the newspaper comic strip soon followed suit for the sake of continuity with the comic books. But that now seems to have ended, at least in the newspaper version of the comic.
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New newspaper taking blogs to print twice daily
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With all the doom and gloom in the newspaper industry, I find this story interesting. Joshua Karp is launching a twice-daily free print newspaper in Chicago, San Francisco and later in New York City with content from blogs on January 27. The idea is to take local content from blogs and print them in tabloid
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F Minus collection hits shelves today; appears on NPR
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Tony Carrillo’s F Minus has a new collection that is now available in book stores. To commemorate the release, NPR looks at his career thus far and the state of the newspaper industry. Carrillo was an art student at Arizona State University when he started drawing for the student newspaper. At the end
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Seattle PI to go web; Horsey to remain employed
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Tomorrow is the deadline set by The Hearst Corporation to have a buyer for their Seattle Post-Intelligencer or they’ll shut down the newspaper. Last week, news leaked that some 20 or so employees were offered a provisional contract to stay on in a web-only version of the newspaper indicating that
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Why you should subscribe to your local paper
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Last Saturday as I was walking out of the supermarket, I was offered a free newspaper. It wasn’t totally free, I had to listen to a sales pitch on what a great deal a newspaper subscription is. After the frustration and sadness I felt the day before with the Rocky Mountain News closing, his pitch
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Mike Manley to take over for Eduardo Barreto (UPDATED)
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King Features Syndicate has made an official decision regarding Eduardo Barreto’s status as the artist for the Judge Parker strip. Eduardo, who had taken a temporary leave from the strip citing a medical condition, gave final word to KFS editor Brendan Burford that he will not be returning to the strip.
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