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Aug 27, 2009
New positions at NBC clash with union rules
Several NBC-owned-and-operated stations around the country are restructuring their newsrooms, with some employees being forced to take on new titles. […]
Aug 13, 2009
Up against the pay wall: Bracing for changes in online content
Last week, the Boston Globe revealed that it may apply a consumer pay model to its online content on Boston.com. […]
Aug 6, 2009
PR: News aggregation’s biggest benefactor
Melissa Rzeppa spends a lot of time reading news stories and scanning blogs and publications related to her industry for […]
Aug 5, 2009
News aggregation: Theft or free speech?
The other day, Syracuse University journalism professor Mark Obbie saw a blurb from a popular blogging Web site that credited […]
Jul 30, 2009
Trending up: Three top magazines increase their rate bases
The culling of the magazine industry was halted last week when Life & Style Weekly, Food Network Magazine and Parenting […]
Jul 24, 2009
Christmas in July: Pitch now to secure holiday coverage
While the rest of us are trying to weather the doldrums of summer with iced coffees and extra-strength antiperspirant, magazine […]
Jul 23, 2009
Fewer journalists: PRs, write the news yourself
Two newspaper giants are now showing some small hope on the financial front. But the net gains were made in […]
Jul 17, 2009
Saving the newspaper, one community at a time
Much as the old adage goes, “It takes a village to raise a child,” it takes a community to save […]
Jul 15, 2009
TV job losses may be slowing
The bleeding of on-air TV news jobs by the recession may be slowing down, with TV journalists in 2009 apparently […]
Jul 10, 2009
Magazine revenue goes down yet again
There were 29.5 percent fewer magazine advertising pages sold in the second quarter of 2009 than in 2008, the Publishers […]
Jul 9, 2009
PRWeb.com Web site Updates
Some of you may have noticed that we’ve recently made a few updates to our Web site. We’ve been tracking […]
Jul 8, 2009
As the ad money dries up, the media is closing
The numbers are in, and 2009 has not been kind to the media so far. As advertising revenue continues to […]
Jun 30, 2009
Vibe magazine closure shocks staff
Vibe Media Group (VMG), publisher of urban music magazine Vibe, announced it will be folding. In a letter today, VMG […]
Jun 26, 2009
The new online newspaper model?
Two separate Internet startups intended to help newspaper publishers get paid for their Web content have recently revealed details of […]
Jun 22, 2009
Big cities becoming one-newspaper towns
Twenty years ago, the idea of a one-newspaper metropolis seemed preposterous, but it is quickly becoming reality. The Houston Post […]
