by jpitney | Apr 26, 2020 | Journalism, Newspapers
Kristen Hare and Ren LaForme at Poynter: Layoffs were underway Friday at Gannett, which merged with GateHouse in late 2019 to become the largest newspaper chain in the U.S. with 261 newspapers in 46 states.We don’t yet have a clear picture of how many people and...
by jpitney | Apr 19, 2020 | California Politics, Newspapers
Newspapers were on the decline even before COVID-19 Now things are much worse as advertising has dried up. Meg James at The Los Angeles Times: The print industry’s demise has larger implications, Doctor and others say. Without reporters keeping tabs on city halls,...
by jpitney | Apr 18, 2020 | California Politics, Coronavirus, Newspapers
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA): I was deeply saddened to learn of the decision by the Los Angeles Times to shut down the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader and La Cañada Valley Sun. These are institutions that have served our community for decades and have chronicled and...
by jpitney | Apr 17, 2020 | Coronavirus, Newspapers
Meg James at The Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times’ parent company, California Times, is folding three award-winning community newspapers that serve the cities of Burbank, Glendale and La Cañada Flintridge. Fourteen staff members learned Thursday that they were...
by jpitney | Apr 13, 2020 | Journalism, Newspapers
From AP: The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland has been reduced as an organization to little more than the name atop its front page after owners laid off 10 of its remaining 14 union journalists. The bulk of the stories and photographs that will be published in the...
by jpitney | Mar 29, 2020 | California Politics, Coronavirus, Newspapers
Previous posts have discussed the crisis in local news. Steven Waldman and Charles Sennott at The Atlantic: In this moment, the bottom is falling out economically for local news organizations. Those small businesses in your town that are closing left and right? They...
