The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
December 13th, 2008
Where the …. is the outrage at what Sam Zell has perpetrated in his financial manoeuvrings that have brought The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and 23 television stations into bankruptcy? The aptly-named “Grave Dancer” has just dug a mass-grave for thousands of innocents who work these enterprises. The New York Times first report…
September 20th, 2008
Wow! Jeff Jarvis, whose BuzzMachine blog is one of the best there is, went to town in a September 17th entry sparked by the lawsuit of the journalists at the Los Angeles Times against their controversial new owner, Sam Zell. I think you could say that he really let the journalists have it. The second…
July 23rd, 2008
This marvelous document appears on the Tell Zell: What You Really Think blog, “courtesy of Andrew Spencer, now 10. Sent in and used with the permission of his mom, Gail Gedan Spencer, a blogger and copy editor at the Sun” I’ll just note a small part of her commentary, and encourage you to visit the…
June 20th, 2008
It’s not as if the last few months have been exactly perky and upbeat around publishing offices across the U.S. But the last week seems to have been completely inundated with a dismal torrent of bad news. Both Hearst (3rd largest magazine publishing in the U.S.) and Hachette (dropped out of the #10 spot in…
March 24th, 2008
Of all media industries assaulted by changes wrought by the Internet, it’s a toss-up as to which is considered the more beleaguered, newspapers or music. Not an enviable prize for which to compete. Certainly both receive plenty of coverage of their varying woes — their problems are not well-kept secrets. But I’ve not seen such…