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Small, Ethnic Newspapers May Not Be Immune to the What's Killing the Big Dailies After All

Things continue to look bleak for newspapers -- the Times-Picayune in New Orleans announcing recently that it's cutting down to three days a week seems like an ominous harbinger of things to come. In general, it's been taken as granted, however, that very small newspapers -- and in particular, the ... More >>

Doc Filmmaker Goes Inside the New York Times, Gets Story

New York Times Journalists Free From Libya, Paywall Gets Internal Investigation

Two of the missing NYT journalists​On Friday, the New York Times was told that four of its reporters being held by government forces in Libya would be freed. Meanwhile, bombing commenced from allied forces and Gaddafi's troops struck back against their own people in the embattled African natio ... More >>

Huffington Post: Our Bloggers Like Doing It For Free

​On Thursday, the Newspaper Guild made a public plea to all unpaid writers for the Huffington Post to withdraw their services as a part of a strike against using unpaid labor in the wake of HuffPo's $315 million sale to AOL. "Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and not cross a physical ... More >>

Orla Healy Fired from NY Daily News, Schadenfreude Runs Wild

​Features editor Orla Hearly -- who a source just called to tell us was "one of the most evil editors to ever work at the New York Daily News" and a "window into facism around the world" who was part of a "gangster regime that took root" and a "sadist" -- has been fired from the New York Daily ... More >>

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Old news becomes new again

The Middle East's Arab Population: Choosing Facebook over Newspapers

​America isn't the only place print publications are in trouble, and online news organizations aren't the only one threatening them. To find evidence of this abroad, one must look no further than Facebook...in the Middle East.

No One Will Tell 'Washington Times' Publisher How to Say Goodbye

​Politico reported Friday that Washington Times publisher and president Jonathan Slevin would be no more come his contract's end on April 30. Now, they have Slevin's farewell letter, despite the insistence by the Board of Directors (whom Slevin calls "aloof or out of touch," and more) that he ... More >>

"There's a great future for you": Studies in Crap presents 1965's Your Career in Journalism

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Your Career in Journalism Author: M.L. Stein Date: 1965 Publ ... More >>

The Newspaper Rack Victory: One Small Step for Print, One Giant Leap for Spare Change

​Eat a dick, Hudson News.

Mayor Mike Bloomberg's News Service Says We're Facing a Bankruptcy. Uh, No We're Not.

​As most in the world of media reporting are aware, one of the Voice's sister papers, SF Weekly, was sued by a competitor, SF Bay Guardian, and almost two years ago the Guardian won a $15 million verdict. SF Weekly is appealing that decision, and that appeal should be heard this year. Just re ... More >>

About that San Francisco Lawsuit You Might Have Heard About

​You might have heard the Voice's sister paper in the Bay Area, SF Weekly, is mixed up in a legal kerfuffle with a rival Bay Area weekly newspaper, the Bay Guardian, and that the case recently took an odd turn when the Guardian seized SF Weekly's two minivans. And you might also have heard th ... More >>

Clip Job: The Plight of 'Newsmen'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 19, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 31 The Newsmen: Where Do They Go from Here? By Stan Fischler M. David Levin, his blue windbreaker stained by a brief drizzle, leaned against the delivery ramp of the Journal-American and refused to curse th ... More >>

Clip Job: When a Newspaper Dies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 28 Mr. Hearst's Flagship Sank Like the Maine By Stan Fischler The Journal-American died with its boots on last Sunday morning at the age of 71. When the boots were removed there was a stench. "Nat Hento ... More >>

The Nation's Newspapers Slammed By Circulation Plunge

Clip Job: Brownmiller Ponders the 1965 Newspaper Strike

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 30, 1965, Vol. X, No. 50 New York's Newspapers: Case of a Cloudy Future By Susan Brownmiller In a ground floor meeting hall of a small building on West 44th Street, striking elevator operators, stenographers, adding machine ... More >>

Sports Betting on Newspaper Websites? It Could Happen

​In this week's cover story about the state of local daily newspapers, we mentioned New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman's idea to allow sports gambling on his newspaper's website. In an interview with Forbes business magazine earlier this year, Mort said, "There is something that can be ... More >>

How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

Jockbeat: Barra Bemoans Shrinking (Print) Sports Sections; Ortega Tells Him To Stop Whining

​For many years, there's been a feeling that SportsBusiness Journal is a publication only for insiders. Well, the web has changed the definition of "insiders," expanding it to heretofore unthought of numbers, and I can't think of any sportswriter, editor or fan who doesn't need to see and absorb B ... More >>

Clip Job: The Death of the Daily Newspaper

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 2, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 11Postscript to '30'By Donald PanethA newspaper is a lively, amicable place of employment, and the city room with its atmospheres of excitement, legitimate urgency, and yet easygoing traditions, the center of its eff ... More >>

His Girl Friday

More Wining

paul goyette @ Flickr Governor Paterson's proposal to widen wine sales throughout the state has gained yet another endorsement, this time from Newsday. A number of local newspapers have championed the idea, which would allow grocery stores in New York State to sell wine, a right that stores in 35 st ... More >>

Live-Blogging Jimmy Breslin at KGB Radio Hour

Jimmy Breslin just told a woman who offered him a lap dance to "jump out the window -- I want to see her guts flattened." And he meant it. He wasn't happy that he'd been interrupted during a long recitation from his next book, a work-in-progress about Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers exec who hi ... More >>

Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye

I used to say, 'I've been at the Voice since the Civil War.' But now I'm off to other combats.

Duh: NY Fails to Make Most Literate Cities List

Nothing Sacred

Journalist's sentence still makes no sense

'Times': An Unhealthy Trend

Newsday to Line Dolans' Bird Cage

Clay Shirky Celebrates Mob Rule

New-media philosophe praises tech-driven changes in community power

Clip Job: The Voice Gets Recognized, and 'Curing' Homosexuality

Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining

Cheers, Mate! The BBC Is the Future of Your Paper. Maybe.

Kill the Messenger

The tragic death of Gary Webb, one of America's most important investigative journalists

Newspaper Held Foley Story

UPDATE: 'Voice' Editor Quits Before He Starts

Finding Nemo

When Sunday papers brought disposable art to the masses

1963

Times Trials

Mnookin, Friel, and Falk attempt to explain the faults of a black-and-blue Gray Lady

Pressure Drop Newsday Foreign Editor Sparks Culture War

Much Ado About Bylines

Siegal Sets Out to Rewrite the Times' Rules

The News No One Dares to Cover

Fear and Favor at 'The New York Times'

Reviving the Good Gray Lady

All the Wrong Moves

A Fraud Grows on West 43rd Street

A Book Unfit for 'The New York Times'

The Cultures of Newsrooms

Dateline: 43rd Street

How the ‘Times’ Straddles the Globalization Debate

Mr. Kosner’s Neighborhood

‘Daily News’ Accused of Race Discrimination—Again

Sweetheart Deal, Bitter Wounds

The L.A. Times's Eccentric Ex-Publisher Appears in a Bold Cameo

Leonard's Lips Are Sealed

Were the 'New York Press,' New Times Shut Out of Bidding on the 'Voice'?