The meltdown in print journalism has produced an unfortunate side-effect: Diminished newsrooms largely populated by timid journalists. They might not be timid with sources. (Though I have to wonder.) What I am fairly certain of is that the print survivors are scared stiff of their managers, and what I believe was the healthy skepticism and […]
Entries Tagged as 'Newspapers'
The Rise of the Timid Print Journalist
May 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · LANG, Newspapers, Sports Journalism, The Sun
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Tony Jackson Fired; One Reporter Left on Dodgers Beat
May 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Baseball, Dodgers, Newspapers, Sports Journalism, The Sun
Tony Jackson, Dodgers baseball writer, was laid off Thursday by the L.A. News Group. LANG getting rid of solid, veteran journalists is nothing new. It’s what Dean Singleton’s collection of imploding SoCal suburban newspapers have been doing for more than a year now. The L.A. Daily News, the San Gabriel Tribune, the Long Beach Press […]
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Smoke (!) Got in Our Eyes
April 22nd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Baseball, Dodgers, Newspapers, Sports Journalism
I was reading David Sedaris in the New Yorker (how’s that for a snooty start to an item on a sports blog?), and he was writing about train travel a quarter-century ago and the cars in which people were allowed to smoke. And it brought to mind a memory I thought I may already have […]
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‘State of Play’ … State of Despair
April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Newspapers
I like Russell Crowe. If he is in a movie, I’m likely to see it. Or at least seriously consider it. His current release is “State of Play” in which he plays a not-quite-believable newspaper reporter behaving in not-quite-ethical ways in and around a metropolitan newspaper. As a thriller with the generic “military-industrial-complex-threatens-democracy” trappings, it’s […]
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American Newspapers: A Long, Slow Decline
March 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Newspapers
Certainly, the bottom has fallen out of the industry over the past year. To the point that some communities have no newspaper at all, and the surviving newspapers are greatly diminished, with shrunken staffs, circumscribed reach and evaporating influence on contemporary civic debate, great or small. It was not so 10 years ago, when the […]
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Tips on Keeping Your Print Journalism Job
March 14th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Journalism, Newspapers, Sports Journalism
“Ha!” you say. What does he know about this? He just got fired! Got me there. Actually, I believe I DO know something about this topic, after nearly 32 years in the business, 23 of them as a departmental manager — and at least three years watching the slow-moving train known as the Unemployment Local […]
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