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Consumer Reports Warns of Price Add-Ons

Consumer Reports has a love-hate relationship with the holiday shopping season. If you are determined to spend a month’s income on a stove, for example, it wants to help you find the best one. But the magazine would just as soon warn you off inflated ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Consumer Reports,  USA Today

In Chicago, Ex-Editor Fights Back

James E. O’Shea spent most of his career at The Chicago Tribune, but he was ousted from the Tribune Company in a highly publicized clash over staff cuts, and these days he’s finding plenty of fault with his old paper. Now, he is competing head-to-head ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chicago Tribune,  Tribune Company,  Los Angeles Times,  Washington Post Company,  Texas Tribune

Suit Accuses Hartford Courant of Plagiarism

Newspapers have tried many ways to cover the news with dwindling resources: dropping certain topics, having people do double duty, using more wire service work. Routine plagiarism is not usually an option, but a lawsuit contends that it was for a while ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Journal Inquirer,  Hartford Courant,  Tribune Company

Washington Blade Newspaper Closes Down

The Washington Blade and several other gay newspapers and magazines around the country learned on Monday that they had been shut down after a federal agency that oversaw them was unable to find buyers for them. The Blade, founded in 1969, was ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Blade,  Small Business Administration,  Southern Voice

Advertising: With New Presses, Daily News Is Betting on World of Print

With advertising and circulation falling, and with publishers pessimistic about their prospects of bouncing back, newspapers are slashing expenses these days, not finding new ways to spend enormous sums of money. Industry executives and analysts ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U S News & World Report,  New York Post,  Poynter Institute

Glimmers of Progress at a Leaner Newsweek

Six months ago, Newsweek embarked on a bold effort to stanch its losses in a brutal economic time, with a major redesign, price increases, a steep reduction in circulation, and a continuation in a long series of steps away from weekly news and toward ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Newsweek,  Washington Post Company

About Half in U.S. Would Pay for Online News, Study Finds

Americans, it turns out, are less willing than people in many other Western countries to pay for their online news, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group. Among regular Internet users in the United States, 48 percent said in the ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Rose

Times News Service to Cut Jobs and Relocate

The New York Times News Service will lay off at least 25 editorial employees next year and will move the editing of the service to a Florida newspaper owned by The New York Times Company, the newspaper and the Newspaper Guild said Thursday. A ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

Washington Times Ousts 3 Top Executives

The Washington Times has fired three top executives, the paper announced on Monday, and it refused to say whether the paper’s top editor would also leave. The Times dismissed Thomas P. McDevitt, the president and publisher; Keith Cooperrider, the chief ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Times,  David Jones (politician),  Washington Post Company,  Unification Church,  Sun Myung Moon

Sober Mood at New York Post as Circulation Spirals Lower

Three years ago, Col Allan, the editor of The New York Post, pumped his fist and waded into a cheering crowd at a Midtown restaurant, celebrating The Post’s overtaking its rival, The Daily News, in weekday circulation. The Post trumpeted the news on a ...

From RICHARD PéREZ-PEñA, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Post,  Rupert Murdoch,  New York Observer,  Alexander Hamilton,  News Corporation Limited

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