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In Times-Picayune 'Blunder,' Proof Print Isn't Dead
New Orleans' venerable newspaper bet against its print business—and in so doing, shot itself in the foot, writes David Carr in the New York Times. The Times-Picayune infuriated the city when it planned to cut print editions to three days a week; now, it's going to print a paper...
Times-Picayune staffers jump to The Advocate
The Advocate has hired these journalists from the New Orleans Times-Picayune: – Martha Carr, a 16-year veteran of The Times-Picayune. She’ll be managing editor of the New Orleans Advocate. – Gordon Russell, the Times-Picauyune’s leading investigative reporter. Show More Summary
Former Times-Picayune editors will lead Baton Rouge Advocate, which has a new owner
The Advocate Former New Orleans Times-Picayune managing editors Dan Shea and Peter Kovacs will serve as General Manager and Editor, respectively, of the Baton Rouge Advocate, which announced it had been purchased by New Orleans businessman John Georges Tuesday night… Read more
Times-Picayune to sell newsstand tab three days a week
The Times-Picayune’s TPStreet will be sold on newsstands Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and cost 75 cents, says editor Jim Amoss. The New Orleans paper currently has a Wednesday, Friday and Sunday home-delivered print edition. “In TPStreet, we sought to develop a publication that would address our single-copy readers and also respond to a repeated request … Read More
Stephanie Stokes, wife of ousted Times-Picayune managing editor, quits the paper
Dan Shea was one of the Times-Picayune managing editors let go last June when the New Orleans paper was restructured. His wife, Stephanie Stokes, stayed on as editor of the T-P’s weekly home and garden section — until yesterday, when she cleaned out her desk after 19 years in the newsroom. “The last straw for … Read More
Commentator Chris Rose Out at WVUE
WVUE commentator Chris Rose has been dismissed from the New Orleans Fox affiliate, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
WVUE’s news director and general manager told the Times-Picayune Rose was dismissed due to budgetary concerns. Show More Summary
Audit Notes: The Times-Picayune, Dimon's hubris, the QuikTrip model
Gambit's Kevin Allman reports that the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Baton Rouge bureau chief is out after six months. My long story in the current issue of CJR on the Picayune pointed to the Baton Rouge bureau as a particular embarrassment, both inside and outside the paper. Here's Allman: Carlos Sanchez, the managing editor of NOLA Media Group's new...
AM News: New Orleans District Hopes to Bring Charters Back to Local Control
Orleans Parish School Board hopes to lure state takeover schools back to local control Times-Picayune: The Orleans Parish School Board is addressing a key roadblock this legislative session after two years in which no state takeover schools chose to return to local control. Show More Summary
CJR: Times-Picayune changes resemble ‘an orderly liquidation’
CJR | WWLTV | St. Tammany News “In a town rich in history and its own peculiarities, NOLA.com seems like an out-of-town visitor,” Ryan Chittum writes in a extended look at the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s new reality as … Read more
The battle of New Orleans
In May, as the New Orleans Times-Picayune put to bed an epic, eight-part investigation into Louisiana's prison system, its editors began to disappear. First, Mark Lorando, the features editor, was nowhere to be found. Then the chairs of the online editor, Lynn Cunningham, and the sports editor, Doug Tatum, were empty. So was that of the city editor,...
The Morning Wrap
Oil Spill: The civil trial against BP PLC over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is starting on Monday in New Orleans, The Times-Picayune reports. Sunday Blessing: Speaking at his last Sunday blessing as pope, Benedict XVI told Catholics...
Audit Notes: New Orleans newspaper intrigue, NYT numbers, CNET
Baton Rouge's Manship family threw a wrench in the Newhouses' plans for the Times-Picayune when they launched a daily New Orleans edition of The Advocate back in September. The Newhouses struck back with a Baton Rouge edition three days a week. Now, the Manships are in talks with New Orleans businessman and failed political candidate John Georges, who...
Buyer interested in Advocate, which now sells about 22,000 copies a day in New Orleans
The Advocate A private buyer is interested in buying the Baton Rouge paper, Timothy Boone reports. Circulation at The Advocate is up since the seven-day-a-week paper made a play for readers of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which reduced … Read more
Times-Picayune cites gains as ’60 Minutes’ chronicles cutbacks
Nola.com | CBS | DashThirtyDash | Gambit Weekly Before Sunday evening’s “60 Minutes” story about the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s reductions in staff and print frequency, Times-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss wrote a letter to readers saying the move seems like … Read more
’60 Minutes’ piece on Times-Picayune airs Sunday
Morley Safer was in New Orleans in September, working on a “60 Minutes” piece about the Times-Picayune reducing its print publication schedule. He interviewed editor Jim Amoss and former T-P columnist Lolis Eric Elie, among others. “60 Minutes” spokesman Kevin Tedesco tells me this morning that the segment will air on Sunday.
The Louisiana newspaper war
The Baton Rouge Advocate is making a run at a weakened Times-Picayune in New Orleans. The paper, which started a daily New Orleans edition in October as the Newhouse family slashed the Times-Pic's newsroom and went to a three-day-a-week paper, has already picked up a circulation of 23,500, publisher David Manship told me yesterday. About 16,000 of those are...
Times-Picayune says circulation is up since it cut staff, print frequency
WWNO On the New Orleans radio show “Out to Lunch” Monday, Nola.com business manager David Francis said The Times-Picayune’s print circulation has gone up since it cut print frequency. “I will tell you that we’ve been pleasantly pleased with … Read more
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry on the Death of New Orleans Newspapers
In the latest Mediabistro interview, MSNBC host and New Orleans native Melissa Harris-Perry talks about the state of journalism and the decline of print. For her, the loss of The Times-Picayune is not just bad for the Crescent City,Show More Summary
New Times-Picayune competitor, Baton Rouge Advocate says it now has 10,000 subscribers in New Orleans
WWL | Nieman Journalism Lab New subscribers to the Baton Rouge Advocate’s New Orleans edition are reporting problems with receiving their papers. “I really think they weren’t prepared for the amount of subscribers that they got,” subscriber Loretta Hamilton… Read more