R.I.P., Editor & Publisher

A sure sign of how the news business is going: Editor & Publisher magazine is shutting down. Here’s the post I saw about it over on TPM: Just in from Romenesko: Nielsen Business Media has announced that it will close Editor & Publisher, a trade publication that covers the newspaper industry. Nielsen is also selling

Proof that Truly Liberal Media is good (for me)

On election night 2002, discussion about starting a new, independent newspaper started between myself and another media activist. The discussion was cut short that night when Senator Russ Feingold made a surprise appearance at the bar-restaurant we were at, providing the happiest sort of interruption. Our talks eventually resumed, and in January 2004, The Wisconsinite

Journal Sentinel edges toward…

It must be hard to be in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newsroom right now. I know it’s been tough at the Capital Times over in Madison, and its bigger cousin the State Journal hasn’t had it much easier. I still remember talking to SJ’s beloved columnist George Hesselberg after his column got iced back in

Another old newspaper fades away

Farewell and R.I.P. Rocky Mountain News. The Denver paper had been published since 1859 — that’s one hundred and fifty years, a very long time our short American history. Perhaps it’s analogous to the role of the Capital Times in Madison, which for decades had kept Madison as one of the remaining cities in America