Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club
Monday, March 31, 2008
Monday Morning News
Our Favorite and last tour guide at the Los Angeles Times, Darrell Kunitomi
- No More Changes Forecast - Karen Hunter
- Over 100 Staffers Leave Newsweek - Radar
- LAT Correction o' The Day - Franklin Avenue
- Collapse and Rebirth - Newspaper Death Watch
- Weinstein, Levin, Frank Rich Tell The Truth - Ken Reich
- More Job Cuts Across the Media Sphere - Media Bistro
- LA Times Buyout List Gets Longer and Longer - Kate Coe
- Los Angeles Times buyout list, spring '08 - Kevin Roderick
- How to increase your chance of finding a job - Angry Journalist
- Tribune Chief Innovation Officer Provides Comedy Gold - News Busters
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Job Market 2009
When there is no control of our borders
Submitted by Nubia
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Unofficial Departure List of Production Employees
This is the unofficial list of employees leaving the Los Angeles Times two production facilities, which will be updated as additional information arrives.
Los Angeles Times Olympic Production Facility
Marvin Crayon
Alfredo Eslava
Roy Gonzales
David Martinez
Los Angeles Times Orange County Production Facility
Philip Chandler
Timothy Dodd
Doug Howard
Mark Jacobs
Lawrence Lyon
Scott MacDonald
Arthur Mojica
Mark Snyder
Ralph Van Dyke
This is the unofficial list of employees leaving the Los Angeles Times two production facilities, which will be updated as additional information arrives.
Los Angeles Times Olympic Production Facility
Marvin Crayon
Alfredo Eslava
Roy Gonzales
David Martinez
Los Angeles Times Orange County Production Facility
Philip Chandler
Timothy Dodd
Doug Howard
Mark Jacobs
Lawrence Lyon
Scott MacDonald
Arthur Mojica
Mark Snyder
Ralph Van Dyke
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Newspapers For Sale
With all the negative news regarding falling profits at newspapers the past few years, I’m left wondering why three interested suitors are vying to purchase the Tribune Company property Newsday? If and when the Los Angeles Times goes onto the chopping block, three different billionaires have made it clear they would like to purchase the newspaper.
Makes one wonder what the movers and shakers see, that we do not see, for the future of newspapers?
With all the negative news regarding falling profits at newspapers the past few years, I’m left wondering why three interested suitors are vying to purchase the Tribune Company property Newsday? If and when the Los Angeles Times goes onto the chopping block, three different billionaires have made it clear they would like to purchase the newspaper.
Makes one wonder what the movers and shakers see, that we do not see, for the future of newspapers?
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Hawthorne Videoactive Report
Los Angeles Times Uses Billboards To Lure Subscribers; NBC Learns That Online Ads Are Stickier Than Television Counterparts; DoubleClick Opens Up Network To Hi-Def Ads; Online Ad Types Can Be More Annoying Than Instructive.
Los Angeles Times Uses Billboards To Lure Subscribers; NBC Learns That Online Ads Are Stickier Than Television Counterparts; DoubleClick Opens Up Network To Hi-Def Ads; Online Ad Types Can Be More Annoying Than Instructive.
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Weekend Media Links
The line refers to Dennis FitzSimons' payout when he stepped down as Tribune CEO
- CAPITALISM without bankruptcy, is like Christianity without hell - Economist
- NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years - E&P
- Chuck Philips Overlooked Some Pretty Obvious Red Flags - Patterico
- Sex, drugs and plagiarism at the San Bernardino Sun - Reporter G
- Readers React to the Tupac Shakur Story - Los Angeles Times
- Daily News' Zuckerman still trying to buy Newsday - Newsday
- Times reporter's note to the 'resident bully' - Kevin Roderick
- Who Was Expecting an 18% Downturn? - Follow the Media
- Zell Unloads on Newspaper Employees - BNet
- Finger Wagging at the LAT - Tina Dupuy
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Los Angeles Times Writers Say Goodbye
Robert Welkos farewell:
Henry Weinstein's farewell:
Joel Sappell's farewell:
Robert Welkos farewell:
In recent years, the Los Angeles Times itself became the story as its owners,Complete letter here:
publishers, editors and reporters came and went, sometimes with dizzying speed.
It was out of this seeming chaos that the Welkos Wire thrived. It was an
opportunity for all of us to catch up on internal news and gossip and take note
of the comings and goings of our colleagues. In the end, it wasn't me that gave
it life, it was all of you, just like all of the journalists who ever worked
here over the decades whose reporting and writing gave readers a front-row seat
to history.
Henry Weinstein's farewell:
The Principal Owner has the temerity to tell great journalists in our WashingtonComplete letter here:
bureau that they are nothing but "overhead,'' not producing any revenue. As I
said, if journalists were not producing stories, be they from a ravaged Los
Angeles hospital, the Supreme Court in Washington, the flooded streets of New
Orleans, the war zones of Bosnia, El Salvador and Iraq, the famine-ravished
countries of Africa, the bright lights of Dodger Stadium or a dimly lit movie
screening room, there would be no Los Angeles Times to sell. I hope Mr. Zell
eventually understands that.
Joel Sappell's farewell:
Wow, 26 years sure moved fast. I can't begin to express how much I've
enjoyed sharing a career with all of you as we mastered some of the biggest
stories L.A. could throw at us—riots, earthquakes, O.J., fires and on and on.
The one constant amid the churn of stories has been the passion of the staff,
which has allowed this place to flourish even in the most difficult times, such
as now. It's been a privilege and inspiration to work alongside you.
Our new "Innovation Officer" recently used the origins of rock 'n roll
to explain his vision for The Times. No offense, Lee, but I'd like to think of
us more as a symphony, with each part, each note, as important as the next. And,
Mr. Zell, please don't confuse arrogance with a commitment to something grander
than the real estate in which we're housed or to the dollars in our ESOP. You
want people to "Talk to Sam" but not to "Talkback to Sam." Perhaps that's a
closer definition of arrogance.
So, with that off my chest (sort of), I'll say good-bye and good
luck to you all.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
For the weekend: gardens, bugs & antimacassars
I will tell you why I smelled of salad dressing yesterday.
In January, I grew annoyed with the sound of blowers and having my topsoil all blown away. Though I tried to work with them, explained to them, the economics of their jobs demanded they mow and blow. It's part of a larger problem, being that for the most part, gardeners aren't trained. All bushes are clipped the same, and it's not unusual to see botched tree trimmings. So I let them go. Admittedly, after having such a magificent garden at my old house, when I moved here I couldn't get up the enthusiasm for more work outside. But now that I'm sans gardener, it's time to get with it and make it more than Home Depot dull. Now, Louie and I have been out there each day......
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I will tell you why I smelled of salad dressing yesterday.
In January, I grew annoyed with the sound of blowers and having my topsoil all blown away. Though I tried to work with them, explained to them, the economics of their jobs demanded they mow and blow. It's part of a larger problem, being that for the most part, gardeners aren't trained. All bushes are clipped the same, and it's not unusual to see botched tree trimmings. So I let them go. Admittedly, after having such a magificent garden at my old house, when I moved here I couldn't get up the enthusiasm for more work outside. But now that I'm sans gardener, it's time to get with it and make it more than Home Depot dull. Now, Louie and I have been out there each day......
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Thursday Morning Media News
Edward with David Markland
- Sam, the viagra man - Bill Boyarsky
- Newspaper for Sale? - James Brady
- Newspapers Aren't Dying - The Stress-Telegram
- L.A. Times Journo Joins "The Dark Side" - Mayrav Saar
- Register Star offers buyouts to employees - Register Star
- CNET lays off 120, 10 percent of U.S. workforce - Valleywag
- Is Yahoo The Right Fit for Newspapers? - Editor & Publisher
- Zev on planning and the Los Angeles Times - Kevin Roderick
- These are not the salad days of American newspapers - Bob Richter
- Metblogs is once again having an open call for authors - David Markland
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The Los Angeles Film Race
From the computer of David Markland
Hey, friends...
I'm event producing a filmmaking competition called the LA Film Race. Below are details. I'd appreciate if you could forward to anyone who may be interested. Thanks! -DM
The Los Angeles Film Race is a 24 hour filmmaking competition being held the first weekend of May, followed a few nights later by all the films being screened at a local theatre. I'm event producing, which is a great excuse for not participating, but it also makes me ineligible for a ton of prizes.
Here's how it works: At 10pm, Friday, May 2nd, filmmaking teams will be sent a theme (ie, "a trade") along with another random requirement (ie, "high five"). The team then has 24 hours to plot, shoot, edit, and turn in a 4 minute short film that incorporates those elements. Films need to be dropped of at a Hollywood area location (TBD, likely someplace with alcohol and cookies) by 10pm Saturday, May 3rd to qualify.
The top films from Los Angeles will then go on to be judged against films in other cities competitions for prizes ranging from $2,500 cash, Avid software, and more.
Registration fee until April 10th is $95 - but use discount code FILMRACER for $10 off.
For more info and to register:
http://filmracing.com/Cities/losangeles.htm
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David Markland
:: City Captain/Author, LA Metblogs (formerly Metroblogging LA)
:: Blogger, KNBC's California Faultline
:: Producer, The LA Film Race, May 2nd & 3rd, 2008
:: resume, etc.: www.davidmarkland.com
From the computer of David Markland
Hey, friends...
I'm event producing a filmmaking competition called the LA Film Race. Below are details. I'd appreciate if you could forward to anyone who may be interested. Thanks! -DM
The Los Angeles Film Race is a 24 hour filmmaking competition being held the first weekend of May, followed a few nights later by all the films being screened at a local theatre. I'm event producing, which is a great excuse for not participating, but it also makes me ineligible for a ton of prizes.
Here's how it works: At 10pm, Friday, May 2nd, filmmaking teams will be sent a theme (ie, "a trade") along with another random requirement (ie, "high five"). The team then has 24 hours to plot, shoot, edit, and turn in a 4 minute short film that incorporates those elements. Films need to be dropped of at a Hollywood area location (TBD, likely someplace with alcohol and cookies) by 10pm Saturday, May 3rd to qualify.
The top films from Los Angeles will then go on to be judged against films in other cities competitions for prizes ranging from $2,500 cash, Avid software, and more.
Registration fee until April 10th is $95 - but use discount code FILMRACER for $10 off.
For more info and to register:
http://filmracing.com/Cities/losangeles.htm
--
David Markland
:: City Captain/Author, LA Metblogs (formerly Metroblogging LA)
:: Blogger, KNBC's California Faultline
:: Producer, The LA Film Race, May 2nd & 3rd, 2008
:: resume, etc.: www.davidmarkland.com
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In Memory of Firefighter Brent A. Lovrien
By clicking here, you can directly support the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firemen's Fund of the Los Angeles Firemen's Relief Association. To learn more, visit: LAFRA.ORG or call 1-800-244-3439
By clicking here, you can directly support the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firemen's Fund of the Los Angeles Firemen's Relief Association. To learn more, visit: LAFRA.ORG or call 1-800-244-3439
Widows, Orphans and Disabled Firemen's Fund - Brian Humphrey
Burst manhole covers kill L.A. firefighter - Los Angeles Times
One L.A. firefighter dead in manhole explosion - Daily News
Brent A. Lovrien, LAFD firefighter was 35 - Kevin Roderick
LAFD Firefighter killed in the Line of Duty - Red Spot
Explosion kills L.A. firefighter in Westchester - Veronique de Turenne
Firefighter Killed in Explosion Near LAX - LAist
Firefighter Dies In The Line of Duty - Julie Frey
Another Hero is Dead - Gigi Graciette
Photo Credit: Rich66 on Flickr
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Los Angeles Firefighter Killed in the Line of Duty
It is with great sadness that the men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department share word of one City of Los Angeles Firefighter dying today in the line of duty.
On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:57 PM Los Angeles Firefighters were summoned to investigate smoke in the 8800 block of South Sepulveda Boulevard in the Westchester area of Los Angeles - not far from Los Angeles International Aiport.
While Firefighters were performing their sworn duties, an explosion occurred, causing injury to two male Firefighters and one civilian.
One of the injured Firefighters later died at the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center, Marina Campus.
The other Firefighter and civilian are being treated at area hospitals.
As dictated by Fire Department policy, a formal and detailed multi-agency investigation is underway to determine the exact nature of the explosion, as well as the precise cause and manner of the Firefighters death.
The men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department thank you for your kind words and sentiment at this time of overwhelming sorrow and immense loss.
The latest information about this incident, as well as details regarding memorial services will be offered via this blog, and can be accessed anytime via LAFD.ORG
Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
It is with great sadness that the men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department share word of one City of Los Angeles Firefighter dying today in the line of duty.
On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:57 PM Los Angeles Firefighters were summoned to investigate smoke in the 8800 block of South Sepulveda Boulevard in the Westchester area of Los Angeles - not far from Los Angeles International Aiport.
While Firefighters were performing their sworn duties, an explosion occurred, causing injury to two male Firefighters and one civilian.
One of the injured Firefighters later died at the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center, Marina Campus.
The other Firefighter and civilian are being treated at area hospitals.
As dictated by Fire Department policy, a formal and detailed multi-agency investigation is underway to determine the exact nature of the explosion, as well as the precise cause and manner of the Firefighters death.
The men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department thank you for your kind words and sentiment at this time of overwhelming sorrow and immense loss.
The latest information about this incident, as well as details regarding memorial services will be offered via this blog, and can be accessed anytime via LAFD.ORG
Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
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The latest from Uncle Sam Zell
From: Talk to Sam
Sent: Wed Mar 26 09:16:41 2008
Subject: IdeaBank
Partners,
I’m thrilled with the hundreds of ideas employees have sent me. It’s been great to see your creativity, and in many cases, the thoughtful approach you’ve taken to analyzing your suggestions.
As I’ve said repeatedly, the best ideas for this company will come from you, and we’ve seen a number of these innovations come to life in the past 60 days, including: a new morning show in Hartford, a free newspaper targeting young adults in Baltimore, a new national news section in Newport News, and spadia ads in Orlando and South Florida. We need to test a lot of ideas; we recognize that some won’t work. But, we’ll never find the ones that do work, unless we try them.
To open up this idea exchange across the company, we are launching an online IdeaBank, accessible via TribLink.
Going forward, I’d like you to direct your ideas to our IdeaBank, rather than sending them to talktoSam@tribune.com. This will enable others across the county to see them. I will still read and respond to all of the ideas that are submitted, and I still encourage you to e-mail me directly with comments and questions.
The IdeaBank has a crowd-sourcing element, so you can tag ideas you think are particularly good. You can also sort ideas by categories, and we’ll feature the top Revenue-Generating ideas, as determined by their popularity, on the front page of the site. We’re placing special emphasis on revenue-generating ideas because, as you know, that is our current focus. (One reminder: Ideas should cost significantly less than the revenue they produce.)
Most importantly, I want to convey that this is not some lighthearted initiative. I expect you to participate. Make deposits. Make withdrawals. Review the ideas to determine how you might adapt them to your business unit. And, managers, by reviewing and analyzing these ideas, you dramatically increase the probability of their viability.
So, be prolific. The future of our company is literally in your hands.
Sam
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
From: Talk to Sam
Sent: Wed Mar 26 09:16:41 2008
Subject: IdeaBank
Partners,
I’m thrilled with the hundreds of ideas employees have sent me. It’s been great to see your creativity, and in many cases, the thoughtful approach you’ve taken to analyzing your suggestions.
As I’ve said repeatedly, the best ideas for this company will come from you, and we’ve seen a number of these innovations come to life in the past 60 days, including: a new morning show in Hartford, a free newspaper targeting young adults in Baltimore, a new national news section in Newport News, and spadia ads in Orlando and South Florida. We need to test a lot of ideas; we recognize that some won’t work. But, we’ll never find the ones that do work, unless we try them.
To open up this idea exchange across the company, we are launching an online IdeaBank, accessible via TribLink.
Going forward, I’d like you to direct your ideas to our IdeaBank, rather than sending them to talktoSam@tribune.com. This will enable others across the county to see them. I will still read and respond to all of the ideas that are submitted, and I still encourage you to e-mail me directly with comments and questions.
The IdeaBank has a crowd-sourcing element, so you can tag ideas you think are particularly good. You can also sort ideas by categories, and we’ll feature the top Revenue-Generating ideas, as determined by their popularity, on the front page of the site. We’re placing special emphasis on revenue-generating ideas because, as you know, that is our current focus. (One reminder: Ideas should cost significantly less than the revenue they produce.)
Most importantly, I want to convey that this is not some lighthearted initiative. I expect you to participate. Make deposits. Make withdrawals. Review the ideas to determine how you might adapt them to your business unit. And, managers, by reviewing and analyzing these ideas, you dramatically increase the probability of their viability.
So, be prolific. The future of our company is literally in your hands.
Sam
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
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Mid-Week News
Eva Jones and David Martinez
- It's That Darn Internet Again - Tina Dupuy
- Fitch To Tribune: Sell, Zell, Sell - Editor & Publisher
- Media Cos. Battle Web Portals on Ads - Associated Press
- Radio vet Jeff Prescott reacts to Abrams - Kevin Roderick
- Hillary Lies About Coming Under Fire In Bosnia - Ken Reich
- Tribune Co. Launches Political Magazine for Amazon’s Kindle - Folio
- 2008 America East Newspaper Op. & Tech. Conference - Meta Printer
- Strib: Revenue drop 'precipitous,' production costs 'unfavorable' - MinnPost
- Why are so Many News Companies in a Panic? - Online Journalism Review
- Price Quoted for Newsday Keeps Changing, Call it a Fire Sale - NY Observer
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Tribune Employees May Need to Refile Taxes
Dear Tribune Employee:
As you know, you were cashed out of your Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) shares upon close of Tribune’s going-private transaction in Dec. 2007. IRS rules consider the sale of ESPP shares held less than two years to be a “disqualifying disposition”. This means the 15 percent discount you received when you purchased these shares is treated as ordinary income for tax purposes.
Unfortunately, Computershare made an error in its data that was included on your W-2 you received for filing your taxes. Your W-2 either does not include the disqualifying disposition amount, or it includes only a portion of the amount that should have been included in Box 1 (wages, tips and other compensation) on your W-2.
If you’ve already filed your taxes, Computershare will reimburse you for the additional amount you must pay to your tax preparer to amend your taxes. To receive a reimbursement, please mail a copy of your invoice from your tax preparer to:
Computershare
118 Fernwood Avenue
Edison, NJ 08837
Attn: Christine Triolo
If you have any questions, please call Computershare at 866-571-2091 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on any NYSE business day.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience our inaccuracies have caused for you.
Sincerely,
Computershare Plan Managers
Dear Tribune Employee:
As you know, you were cashed out of your Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) shares upon close of Tribune’s going-private transaction in Dec. 2007. IRS rules consider the sale of ESPP shares held less than two years to be a “disqualifying disposition”. This means the 15 percent discount you received when you purchased these shares is treated as ordinary income for tax purposes.
Unfortunately, Computershare made an error in its data that was included on your W-2 you received for filing your taxes. Your W-2 either does not include the disqualifying disposition amount, or it includes only a portion of the amount that should have been included in Box 1 (wages, tips and other compensation) on your W-2.
If you’ve already filed your taxes, Computershare will reimburse you for the additional amount you must pay to your tax preparer to amend your taxes. To receive a reimbursement, please mail a copy of your invoice from your tax preparer to:
Computershare
118 Fernwood Avenue
Edison, NJ 08837
Attn: Christine Triolo
If you have any questions, please call Computershare at 866-571-2091 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on any NYSE business day.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience our inaccuracies have caused for you.
Sincerely,
Computershare Plan Managers
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Tribune Press Release
Tribune's KSWB-TV, San Diego, to Join Fox Network
Company Appoints Ray Schonbak Vice President and General Manager
Station’s Local News to Expand
CHICAGO Mar. 25, 2008 -- Tribune Broadcasting today announced that KSWB-TV in San Diego will join the Fox television network effective Aug. 1. The company also announced that veteran broadcasting executive Ray Schonbak has been named the station’s vice president and general manager.
"This is a huge development for our television group and makes it clear that the new Tribune is aggressive and willing to move quickly to upgrade our position in a market, especially when we can improve our financial results almost immediately," said Ed Wilson, Tribune Broadcasting’s president. "We’re not sitting around waiting for the advertising environment to improve, hoping things will get better on their own -- we’re taking action."
KSWB will immediately begin ramping up to air four hours of locally produced news daily, including a three-hour morning show.
Schonbak has more than 30 years of television experience and was most recently president of Emmis Television, overseeing the operation of 16 stations across the country in such markets as New Orleans, Orlando and Portland. Previously, he was instrumental in building the Fox-owned station group.
"This is like being handed the keys to a cool new car and told to go break the speed limit," said Schonbak. "The #1 television network, the chance to build a news department from the ground up, and on top of all that I get to live in a city that’s totally awesome -- 80 degrees, sunny all the time and right by the ocean. I’ll just wear a Speedo under my clothes and be ready to hit the beach at a moment’s notice."
"Fox is a proven winner, and Ray is the right guy to be the new GM," said Wilson. "He’s talented, innovative and has tremendous experience building Fox television stations. But he’s going to be working constantly, so he can forget the Speedo."
Tribune's KSWB-TV, San Diego, to Join Fox Network
Company Appoints Ray Schonbak Vice President and General Manager
Station’s Local News to Expand
CHICAGO Mar. 25, 2008 -- Tribune Broadcasting today announced that KSWB-TV in San Diego will join the Fox television network effective Aug. 1. The company also announced that veteran broadcasting executive Ray Schonbak has been named the station’s vice president and general manager.
"This is a huge development for our television group and makes it clear that the new Tribune is aggressive and willing to move quickly to upgrade our position in a market, especially when we can improve our financial results almost immediately," said Ed Wilson, Tribune Broadcasting’s president. "We’re not sitting around waiting for the advertising environment to improve, hoping things will get better on their own -- we’re taking action."
KSWB will immediately begin ramping up to air four hours of locally produced news daily, including a three-hour morning show.
Schonbak has more than 30 years of television experience and was most recently president of Emmis Television, overseeing the operation of 16 stations across the country in such markets as New Orleans, Orlando and Portland. Previously, he was instrumental in building the Fox-owned station group.
"This is like being handed the keys to a cool new car and told to go break the speed limit," said Schonbak. "The #1 television network, the chance to build a news department from the ground up, and on top of all that I get to live in a city that’s totally awesome -- 80 degrees, sunny all the time and right by the ocean. I’ll just wear a Speedo under my clothes and be ready to hit the beach at a moment’s notice."
"Fox is a proven winner, and Ray is the right guy to be the new GM," said Wilson. "He’s talented, innovative and has tremendous experience building Fox television stations. But he’s going to be working constantly, so he can forget the Speedo."
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Tribune memo on switch to Fox in San Diego
From: Tribune Communications
Subject: Message from Ed Wilson/KSWB-TV To Join Fox
Tribune Broadcasting today is making the exciting announcement that effective August 1st, KSWB-TV, San Diego, will become an affiliate of the Fox television network — the nation’s #1 sourcee for broadcast entertainment. We’ll also announce the appointment of Ray Schonbak, the former president of Emmis Television, as vice president and general manager at the station. Ray’s one of the most successful television executives anywhere in the country. His Emmis stations were industry leaders in revenue growth, and before that, he helped build the Fox-owned stations division into a powerhouse.
For KSWB, this is a no-brainer. Fox is a proven winner. The switch will mean great prime-time programming with shows like “American Idol”, “The Simpsons” and “24”, designed to build an excellent lead-in to our late local news. KSWB will get back into the news game in a big way later this year, and will immediately begin ramping up to produce four hours of news every dayincluding a three hour morning show.
The affiliattion also brings KSWB America’s top sporting drawNFL footballevery weekend in the fall and winter, as well as the college football’s Bowl Championship Series, major league baseball and NASCAR. And all of this should mean increased sales and an immediate improvement in the bottom line in San Diego.
Most importantly, this is a huge development for our television group and for the company itself. It demonstrates our willingness to be aggressive, to make investments for the long term, and to flex our considerable muscle when necessary to get a deal done. The CW has been a great partner for KSWB and we’re working with the network to find it a new home in the market....
This is the new Tribune. Stay tuned — there’s a lot more ahead.
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
From: Tribune Communications
Subject: Message from Ed Wilson/KSWB-TV To Join Fox
Tribune Broadcasting today is making the exciting announcement that effective August 1st, KSWB-TV, San Diego, will become an affiliate of the Fox television network — the nation’s #1 sourcee for broadcast entertainment. We’ll also announce the appointment of Ray Schonbak, the former president of Emmis Television, as vice president and general manager at the station. Ray’s one of the most successful television executives anywhere in the country. His Emmis stations were industry leaders in revenue growth, and before that, he helped build the Fox-owned stations division into a powerhouse.
For KSWB, this is a no-brainer. Fox is a proven winner. The switch will mean great prime-time programming with shows like “American Idol”, “The Simpsons” and “24”, designed to build an excellent lead-in to our late local news. KSWB will get back into the news game in a big way later this year, and will immediately begin ramping up to produce four hours of news every dayincluding a three hour morning show.
The affiliattion also brings KSWB America’s top sporting drawNFL footballevery weekend in the fall and winter, as well as the college football’s Bowl Championship Series, major league baseball and NASCAR. And all of this should mean increased sales and an immediate improvement in the bottom line in San Diego.
Most importantly, this is a huge development for our television group and for the company itself. It demonstrates our willingness to be aggressive, to make investments for the long term, and to flex our considerable muscle when necessary to get a deal done. The CW has been a great partner for KSWB and we’re working with the network to find it a new home in the market....
This is the new Tribune. Stay tuned — there’s a lot more ahead.
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
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Tuesday Morning Media News
Pressroom Roller Crew Members Manny, Jeff, and Rod
- Stealth journalism - Alan Mutter
- The tchotchkefication of The Times - Jeff Jarvis
- The Internet Killed the Newspaper - Tina Dupuy
- Rising Prices Hit Newsprint Publishers - Jim Jelter
- Would 'Newsday' Sale Get Regulators' OK? - Porfolio
- Analyst Slams Cablevision plan for Newsday - Newsday
- LAT's Krikorian to join public defender - Kevin Roderick
- Rally Lifted Our Spirts, But no Contract Yet - Stress-Telegram
- Envisioning a Newspaperless Democracy - Newspaper Death Watch
- At the MediaNews Newspapers Bad News Floats Upstream - Reporter G
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Services for Julio Barajas
Viewing:
Thursday March 27, 2008
from 5:00p.m. to 9:00p.m.
Funeraria Del Angel
Mirabel Mortuary
4677 E. Gage Ave.
Bell, CA. 90201
Click here for MAP
Funeral Mass:
Friday March 28, 2008
9:00a.m.
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Sam Zell approves of Sun-Times ribbing
From: Talk to Sam
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: Shocking Video
Partners,
I returned from out of the country this weekend to learn that one of our employees had entered a video in the Sun-Times contest designed to protest a name change of Wrigley Field.
Needless to say, I was shocked! Appalled! The video was a blatant disregard for Tribune Company policy. It demonstrated a glaring disrespect for your chairman and CEO. (I’m much better looking, clearly more agile, and I think whoever played me was singing off key.)
So, I immediately referred to the 11th commandment: Thou shalt not take oneself too seriously. And, then I shared the video with my family and friends.
Here’s the link if you didn’t catch it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-suntimes-song-contest,0,1932877.htmlstory
It’s most definitely worth the watch, and it was a deft grab of the ball away from that other paper. What was their name again?
Sam
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
From: Talk to Sam
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: Shocking Video
Partners,
I returned from out of the country this weekend to learn that one of our employees had entered a video in the Sun-Times contest designed to protest a name change of Wrigley Field.
Needless to say, I was shocked! Appalled! The video was a blatant disregard for Tribune Company policy. It demonstrated a glaring disrespect for your chairman and CEO. (I’m much better looking, clearly more agile, and I think whoever played me was singing off key.)
So, I immediately referred to the 11th commandment: Thou shalt not take oneself too seriously. And, then I shared the video with my family and friends.
Here’s the link if you didn’t catch it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-suntimes-song-contest,0,1932877.htmlstory
It’s most definitely worth the watch, and it was a deft grab of the ball away from that other paper. What was their name again?
Sam
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
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A Casual Dinner with Obama
You could join Barack Obama for a casual dinner for five.
In the next few days, four supporters will be selected for a new kind of fundraising dinner. If you make a donation in any amount before 11:59 pm EDT next Monday, March 31st, you could join Barack and three other supporters for an intimate dinner for five.
Get the kind of treatment other politicians reserve for special interests:
https://donate.barackobama.com/dinner
Thanks!
You could join Barack Obama for a casual dinner for five.
In the next few days, four supporters will be selected for a new kind of fundraising dinner. If you make a donation in any amount before 11:59 pm EDT next Monday, March 31st, you could join Barack and three other supporters for an intimate dinner for five.
Get the kind of treatment other politicians reserve for special interests:
https://donate.barackobama.com/dinner
Thanks!
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Tribune Appoints Chandler Bigelow CFO
CHICAGO Mar. 24, 2008 -- Tribune Company today announced the appointment of Chandler Bigelow as Chief Financial Officer, overseeing all corporate finance functions, including financial reporting, tax, audit and treasury. Effective immediately, Bigelow succeeds Don Grenesko, who is retiring.
Bigelow has been Tribune’s vice president/treasurer with responsibility for the company’s financing activities, cash management, short-term and retirement fund investments and risk-management programs since 2003. He began his Tribune career in 1998, and prior to his most recent position served as assistant treasurer, director/corporate finance and corporate finance manager.
Grenesko served as the company’s CFO for the past 17 years. He joined Tribune as treasury manager in 1980 and helped engineer the company’s initial stock offering in 1983. In 1985, Grenesko was named executive vice president/business operations for the Chicago Cubs, and from 1988 to 1991 he was the team’s president and CEO.
Grenesko and Bigelow were each instrumental in closing Tribune’s going-private transaction in December 2007.
CHICAGO Mar. 24, 2008 -- Tribune Company today announced the appointment of Chandler Bigelow as Chief Financial Officer, overseeing all corporate finance functions, including financial reporting, tax, audit and treasury. Effective immediately, Bigelow succeeds Don Grenesko, who is retiring.
Bigelow has been Tribune’s vice president/treasurer with responsibility for the company’s financing activities, cash management, short-term and retirement fund investments and risk-management programs since 2003. He began his Tribune career in 1998, and prior to his most recent position served as assistant treasurer, director/corporate finance and corporate finance manager.
Grenesko served as the company’s CFO for the past 17 years. He joined Tribune as treasury manager in 1980 and helped engineer the company’s initial stock offering in 1983. In 1985, Grenesko was named executive vice president/business operations for the Chicago Cubs, and from 1988 to 1991 he was the team’s president and CEO.
Grenesko and Bigelow were each instrumental in closing Tribune’s going-private transaction in December 2007.
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Tribune Station Switches to Fox Tribe
KSWB in San Diego to Depart CW Clan
By Michele Greppi
Tribune Co.’s KSWB-TV in San Diego will shift its network affiliation to Fox at the end of August, dramatizing the willingness of new Tribune owner Sam Zell to depart from the approach of the company’s former management.
KSWB is affiliated with The CW and was a founding affiliate of its now-defunct predecessor, The WB.
The station will start the 2008-09 season carrying Fox’s popular NFL coverage (San Diego is the home of the Chargers), as well as a prime-time lineup fueled by such hits as “House,” “24” and “American Idol.”
The talks were spearheaded by Randy Michaels, who has headed Tribune Co.’s Internet and broadcast operations since December, according to Tribune Broadcasting President Ed Wilson, who was president of the Fox Television Network before joining Tribune in February.
Mr. Wilson said Tribune will add three to four hours of news per day to the lineup of KSWB, which currently simulcasts the local morning program produced by Tribune’s KTLA-TV in Los Angeles and broadcasts a late local newscast produced by NBC-owned KNSD-TV in San Diego.
“This is a very good move for us,” Mr. Wilson told TelevisionWeek.
As for what will happen to The CW affiliation in the market, John Maatta, chief operating officer of The CW issued a statement saying: “Tribune is a valued partner of The CW’s and we’re confident that our interests in San Diego will be fully protected.”
Mr. Wilson noted that Tribune still will have 12 CW affiliates, whose general managers recently were briefed on prime-time plans by The CW President Dawn Ostroff.
“We continue to be very loyal. We’re going to do what’s best for The CW,” Mr. Wilson said. “We are talking on a daily basis.”
Changes
Tribune stations already represented the second-largest group of Fox affiliates. The addition of San Diego will mean seven Tribune-owned stations within the Fox fold.
The station losing Fox affiliation is XETV-TV, which is based just across the Mexican border in Tijuana and was purchased by Grupo Televisa in 1996.
Jon Hookstratten, Fox network distribution exec VP, said the network’s gains in this affiliation switch start with the fact that instead of working with a station situated in another country, the network will be collaborating with a station whose transmitter is located in the middle of the San Diego market, the 27th largest TV market in the country.
“It’s more of a stable situation,” Mr. Hookstratten said. “We are looking forward to it as a great opportunity.”
McKinnon Broadcasting had been in talks with Fox Broadcasting about affiliation when Tribune reached out to Fox about making the switch.
According to sources familiar with the history of the negotiations, the subject first came up when the previous Tribune regime was grappling with a great deal of challenge and change. Last week brought the news that Tribune Co. had lost $79 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, its last as a publicly traded company, and ended the calendar year barely profitable.
There also was the announcement that Mr. Zell’s new management team was going to combine operations of its Miami TV station, CW affiliated WSFL-TV, and the Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
KSWB in San Diego to Depart CW Clan
By Michele Greppi
Tribune Co.’s KSWB-TV in San Diego will shift its network affiliation to Fox at the end of August, dramatizing the willingness of new Tribune owner Sam Zell to depart from the approach of the company’s former management.
KSWB is affiliated with The CW and was a founding affiliate of its now-defunct predecessor, The WB.
The station will start the 2008-09 season carrying Fox’s popular NFL coverage (San Diego is the home of the Chargers), as well as a prime-time lineup fueled by such hits as “House,” “24” and “American Idol.”
The talks were spearheaded by Randy Michaels, who has headed Tribune Co.’s Internet and broadcast operations since December, according to Tribune Broadcasting President Ed Wilson, who was president of the Fox Television Network before joining Tribune in February.
Mr. Wilson said Tribune will add three to four hours of news per day to the lineup of KSWB, which currently simulcasts the local morning program produced by Tribune’s KTLA-TV in Los Angeles and broadcasts a late local newscast produced by NBC-owned KNSD-TV in San Diego.
“This is a very good move for us,” Mr. Wilson told TelevisionWeek.
As for what will happen to The CW affiliation in the market, John Maatta, chief operating officer of The CW issued a statement saying: “Tribune is a valued partner of The CW’s and we’re confident that our interests in San Diego will be fully protected.”
Mr. Wilson noted that Tribune still will have 12 CW affiliates, whose general managers recently were briefed on prime-time plans by The CW President Dawn Ostroff.
“We continue to be very loyal. We’re going to do what’s best for The CW,” Mr. Wilson said. “We are talking on a daily basis.”
Changes
Tribune stations already represented the second-largest group of Fox affiliates. The addition of San Diego will mean seven Tribune-owned stations within the Fox fold.
The station losing Fox affiliation is XETV-TV, which is based just across the Mexican border in Tijuana and was purchased by Grupo Televisa in 1996.
Jon Hookstratten, Fox network distribution exec VP, said the network’s gains in this affiliation switch start with the fact that instead of working with a station situated in another country, the network will be collaborating with a station whose transmitter is located in the middle of the San Diego market, the 27th largest TV market in the country.
“It’s more of a stable situation,” Mr. Hookstratten said. “We are looking forward to it as a great opportunity.”
McKinnon Broadcasting had been in talks with Fox Broadcasting about affiliation when Tribune reached out to Fox about making the switch.
According to sources familiar with the history of the negotiations, the subject first came up when the previous Tribune regime was grappling with a great deal of challenge and change. Last week brought the news that Tribune Co. had lost $79 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, its last as a publicly traded company, and ended the calendar year barely profitable.
There also was the announcement that Mr. Zell’s new management team was going to combine operations of its Miami TV station, CW affiliated WSFL-TV, and the Tribune-owned South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
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The Passing of Julio Barajas
Easter Sunday was a somber day as word came my way from my brother Michael that his father, my stepfather Julio Barajas, had passed away Easter morning. Just the day before we had all gathered to celebrate Mike’s 39th birthday, which changed our festive mood into one of sadness and sorrow.
Julio was not your typical stepfather; he always greeted me with a smile, and was always happy to see anyone that crossed his path. He leaves behind three sons, seven to ten grandchildren, and three stepchildren.
Julio’s first career was a dangerous one of bull fighting, and after immigrating to the States landed a job for the Times Mirror Corporation as a pressman at the now stuttered Times Mirror Press on Boyle Street. In his spare time Julio coached several soccer teams in the East Los Angeles area. All he touched will miss him.
Funeral arrangements are pending at this time.
Julio was not your typical stepfather; he always greeted me with a smile, and was always happy to see anyone that crossed his path. He leaves behind three sons, seven to ten grandchildren, and three stepchildren.
Julio’s first career was a dangerous one of bull fighting, and after immigrating to the States landed a job for the Times Mirror Corporation as a pressman at the now stuttered Times Mirror Press on Boyle Street. In his spare time Julio coached several soccer teams in the East Los Angeles area. All he touched will miss him.
Funeral arrangements are pending at this time.
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Monday Morning News
The Blogging Pressman meets the Blogging Fireman, Brian Humphrey
- Bad news for Big Media - Fortune
- Lessons of Long Beach - Kevin Roderick
- Zell Enters Into Talks To Sell Newsday - Ken Reich
- Newspapers’ New Owners Turn Grim - New York Times
- Tribune owner hopes to revive embattled Times - Variety
- The Perilous Fall of the Press-Telegram - Los Angeles Times
- Photos from Beer & Brunch at Farmers Market - Sean Bonner
- The death and life of the American newspaper - The New Yorker
- Darryl Turner Tasered-To-Death for Shoplifting - Electronic Village
- Cubs in limbo as Tribune's Zell seeks home-run deals - WJBC Radio
- Star-News, LA Times hit hard in latest round of cuts - Pasadena Weekly
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Movie: Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Miss Pettigrew is for all of us who have been forced to take part in circumstances despite feelings we don't belong. In this comedy, Frances McDormand gives an understated and excellent performance as a misfit and much-fired nanny tossed onto the streets with nary a pence nor stitch. Pre WWII and desperate for both food and job, Miss Pettigrew makes a fateful decision to show up at the door of Delysia Lafosse to assume a role as a social secretary. This story of the mousy "vicar's daughter" and the kept-starlet who can't say no, is a delightful romp through a twenty four hour period where love and honesty are explored and discovered. Amy Adams is both hilarious and heart tugging as an aging ingenue. Shirley Henderson --in a departure from "Moaning Myrtle" gives a good show as a plotting and unscrupulous salon owner, and Ciarán Hinds as her older, wiser fiancé who designs corsets and bras, but knows the value of simpler things.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
The dead don't come back to life -- with one exception
By DR. BILLY GRAHAM
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Do you think they'll ever find Jesus' grave with His bones in it? I respect my Christian friends who say this can't happen because Jesus came back from the dead, but I'm studying to be a doctor, and I know that once someone is dead, nothing is going to bring them back to life. -- Z.J.
DEAR Z.J.: It might surprise you to discover that one of the Gospels that tells us about the resurrection of Jesus from the dead was written by Luke -- who was a medical doctor.
If anyone knew from personal experience that dead people didn't come back to life, it was Luke. And yet he was absolutely convinced the words of Peter he later recorded were true: "God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact" (Acts 2:32). In fact, the Bible says hundreds saw Jesus after His resurrection, including more than 500 at one time (see 1 Corinthians 15:3-8). Years later, those witnesses were still bearing testimony to the reality of Jesus' resurrection.
Not only that, but they were willing to die for their belief. People don't willingly die for what they know is a lie -- but they were, because they knew beyond doubt that God had raised Jesus from the dead. They knew too that His resurrection proved death and Satan had been conquered, and eternal life is available to all who put their faith and trust in Christ.
This Easter I invite you to take a new path in life -- Christ's path. He alone gives us hope -- hope for God's presence now, and hope for life beyond the grave. No, they'll never find Jesus' bones, because God raised Him from the dead, and because of that "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul" (Hebrews 6:19).
HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!
Contact the Rev. Billy Graham c/o Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28201, phone 877-247-2426, or see the Web site billygraham.org.
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Do you think they'll ever find Jesus' grave with His bones in it? I respect my Christian friends who say this can't happen because Jesus came back from the dead, but I'm studying to be a doctor, and I know that once someone is dead, nothing is going to bring them back to life. -- Z.J.
DEAR Z.J.: It might surprise you to discover that one of the Gospels that tells us about the resurrection of Jesus from the dead was written by Luke -- who was a medical doctor.
If anyone knew from personal experience that dead people didn't come back to life, it was Luke. And yet he was absolutely convinced the words of Peter he later recorded were true: "God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact" (Acts 2:32). In fact, the Bible says hundreds saw Jesus after His resurrection, including more than 500 at one time (see 1 Corinthians 15:3-8). Years later, those witnesses were still bearing testimony to the reality of Jesus' resurrection.
Not only that, but they were willing to die for their belief. People don't willingly die for what they know is a lie -- but they were, because they knew beyond doubt that God had raised Jesus from the dead. They knew too that His resurrection proved death and Satan had been conquered, and eternal life is available to all who put their faith and trust in Christ.
This Easter I invite you to take a new path in life -- Christ's path. He alone gives us hope -- hope for God's presence now, and hope for life beyond the grave. No, they'll never find Jesus' bones, because God raised Him from the dead, and because of that "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul" (Hebrews 6:19).
HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!
Contact the Rev. Billy Graham c/o Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28201, phone 877-247-2426, or see the Web site billygraham.org.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
End of the Week News
Fred Kirby as he appeared in 1992
- Are Job Cuts Signaling The End For America's Newspapers? - CNN Money
- Sun-Times is also losing readers, advertisers, and money - Business Week
- Alan Miller Leaving LAT For Much, Much Better Things - Mayrav Saar
- In a newspaper war, we must mind our p's and q's - Chicago Tribune
- Tribune Co. Goes Private Not a Moment Too Soon - Paul Gillin
- New York Moguls in Talks to Buy Newsday - New York Times
- The Wall Street Journal's Web site is already free - Machinist
- LAT blogger caught in Mark Cuban's net - Kevin Roderick
- Questions Linger About Sentinel, WSFL - The Daily Pulp
- Murdoch may buy Newsday - Mark Lacter
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Sam Zell to Partners (Tribune Employees)
Dear Partner,
Today we filed our 10-K with the SEC, and released fourth quarter and full year financial information for 2007. I'm sure it comes as no surprise to you that our results last year weren't good. Due to lower revenues, higher interest expense and some significant special charges, we reported a loss from continuing operations of $78 million in the fourth quarter. Our income from continuing operations for the full year was $55 million, which was a significant decline from 2006.
Unfortunately, this downward trend has continued into 2008. For the first two months of this year, publishing revenue is off more than we expected. While broadcasting is up over last year, it is not enough to offset the decline in publishing.
I have been trying to instill a sense of urgency among you all. I have been trying to get your attention, so that you recognize that today, right now, we are determining the outcome of this company's future. When I tell you to take the initiative, to take steps to make Tribune more competitive - that means take action! Don't wait for someone else to do it. Don't wait for someone to tell you exactly what to do. Create your own idea, figure out how we can weigh its risk vs. reward, and, if it makes sense, execute. Get together with your colleagues, and fight to improve our performance. If we succeed it will be because of heroes in the field who lead a grassroots sea change.
Now, let's focus on the future.
We've begun to build meaningful momentum so far in 2008. We've installed a new management team, initiated sweeping cultural change, taken significant steps to eliminate bureaucracy and to decentralize decision-making, and, I believe, we have improved morale across the company. We've also begun to infuse Tribune with more creative thinking than at any time in its history. On the operations side, we've shaken up our approach to ad sales across markets, and our newspapers, television stations and websites are embarking on an unprecedented level of cooperation.
Finally, as partners, I want you to know that the 10-K has information about the current value of the 56.5 million shares held by the ESOP. The total value of the shares at December 31, 2007, as determined by the ESOP trustee (after consulting with an independent appraiser) was $593 million or $10.50 per share. Remember that the value of these shares will fluctuate on an annual basis depending upon our financial results and capital structure. As we've explained previously, the first allocation of ESOP shares into individual employee accounts will take place in early 2009, but I think it's important that you know their current value. You may have some questions about the ESOP and the valuation of its shares. Here's a link to several new Q&As on this topic: http://triblink.trb/intranet/site/10k
We have an enormous challenge ahead of us. But, we're headed in the right direction.
The future is what we make of it together. Let's go for greatness.
Sam
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
Dear Partner,
Today we filed our 10-K with the SEC, and released fourth quarter and full year financial information for 2007. I'm sure it comes as no surprise to you that our results last year weren't good. Due to lower revenues, higher interest expense and some significant special charges, we reported a loss from continuing operations of $78 million in the fourth quarter. Our income from continuing operations for the full year was $55 million, which was a significant decline from 2006.
Unfortunately, this downward trend has continued into 2008. For the first two months of this year, publishing revenue is off more than we expected. While broadcasting is up over last year, it is not enough to offset the decline in publishing.
I have been trying to instill a sense of urgency among you all. I have been trying to get your attention, so that you recognize that today, right now, we are determining the outcome of this company's future. When I tell you to take the initiative, to take steps to make Tribune more competitive - that means take action! Don't wait for someone else to do it. Don't wait for someone to tell you exactly what to do. Create your own idea, figure out how we can weigh its risk vs. reward, and, if it makes sense, execute. Get together with your colleagues, and fight to improve our performance. If we succeed it will be because of heroes in the field who lead a grassroots sea change.
Now, let's focus on the future.
We've begun to build meaningful momentum so far in 2008. We've installed a new management team, initiated sweeping cultural change, taken significant steps to eliminate bureaucracy and to decentralize decision-making, and, I believe, we have improved morale across the company. We've also begun to infuse Tribune with more creative thinking than at any time in its history. On the operations side, we've shaken up our approach to ad sales across markets, and our newspapers, television stations and websites are embarking on an unprecedented level of cooperation.
Finally, as partners, I want you to know that the 10-K has information about the current value of the 56.5 million shares held by the ESOP. The total value of the shares at December 31, 2007, as determined by the ESOP trustee (after consulting with an independent appraiser) was $593 million or $10.50 per share. Remember that the value of these shares will fluctuate on an annual basis depending upon our financial results and capital structure. As we've explained previously, the first allocation of ESOP shares into individual employee accounts will take place in early 2009, but I think it's important that you know their current value. You may have some questions about the ESOP and the valuation of its shares. Here's a link to several new Q&As on this topic: http://triblink.trb/intranet/site/10k
We have an enormous challenge ahead of us. But, we're headed in the right direction.
The future is what we make of it together. Let's go for greatness.
Sam
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
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Tribune Profits Spent on Golden Parachutes
Tribune Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
CHICAGO Mar. 20, 2008 -- Tribune Company today reported a loss from continuing operations of $78 million for the fourth quarter of 2007 compared with income from continuing operations of $233 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. For the full year 2007, Tribune reported income from continuing operations of $55 million compared with $661 million in 2006.
"Despite the continued difficult operating environment and weakness in print revenue, we see significant opportunity within Tribune Company," said Sam Zell, Chairman and CEO. "In our first 75 days, we've made a series of key leadership changes, have launched a number of programs and projects to drive new revenue, and have initiated a fundamental shift in culture. In addition, we have begun a strategic review of certain Tribune assets to determine whether capital can be more effectively redeployed into our core operations or toward reducing our outstanding leverage."
The declines in both the fourth quarter and full year 2007 operating results were largely due to lower revenues, higher interest expense and the net effect of the items described below.
Fourth quarter 2007 and 2006 results from continuing operations included the following:
A pretax non-cash impairment charge of $130 million ($79 million after taxes) in the 2007 quarter to write-down the Company’s masthead intangible assets to fair value.
A pretax charge of $64 million ($42 million after taxes) in the 2007 quarter for accelerated stock-based compensation expense and certain one-time compensation payments resulting from the completion of the Company’s going-private transaction.
A pretax charge of $23 million ($16 million after taxes) for severance and related charges in the 2007 quarter compared with a pretax charge of $6 million ($4 million after taxes) in the 2006 quarter.
A pretax charge of $16 million ($10 million after taxes) in the 2007 quarter related to the Company’s new management equity incentive plan.
A pretax charge of $6 million ($4 million after taxes) in the 2007 quarter for the write-down of Tribune Entertainment program assets.
A pretax charge of $3 million ($2 million after taxes) in the 2007 quarter to increase the accrual for anticipated advertiser claims at Newsday.
A pretax charge of $4 million ($2 million after taxes) in the 2006 quarter for the disposition of a press related to the shutdown of the Los Angeles Times San Fernando Valley printing facility.
A pretax gain of $7 million ($4 million after taxes) in the 2006 quarter related to the sale of the corporate airplane.
An after-tax non-operating gain of $11 million in 2007 compared with an after-tax non-operating gain of $69 million in 2006.
Full report at Tribune Company
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Tribune takes the Sun Times' prize
The Chicago Tribune has won the Sun Times' Sam Zell Wrigley Field naming rights contest.
The Chicago Tribune has won the Sun Times' Sam Zell Wrigley Field naming rights contest.
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Thursday Morning Links
Former Pressroom Supervisors Billy Deuel and Emmett Jamie
- Note to Zell: Swear More - Tina Dupuy
- Blogs vs. Newspapers - Darleene Powells
- Tribune takes the Sun-Times' prize - Chicago Tribune
- Yet No Cure - Only Pancakes, Prizes and You - Brian Humphrey
- Rising Prices Hit Newsprint Publishers - The Wall Street Journal
- Luxury SpaFinder Folds Print Pub, Transitions Online - Fishbowl NY
- Bay Area News Group asks staff to devise a 'NewPaper' - SF Weekly
- Knight Foundation Gives $25 Million to Newseum - Washington Post
- Three Big Publishers Tell Same Sad Story - Newspaper Death Watch
- Despite the Cuts, we're still dedicated to our community - Stress-Telegram
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Former Colleague Needs Our Help
I received a disturbing call this afternoon regarding the poor health of a former colleague in the pressroom. According to Misty Griffin, Orange County Pressroom supervisor, our friend and former presswomen Lauren Turner is suffering from Lupus. This landed Lauren in the hospital for many weeks, unable to earn a living, Lauren had to vacate her home and place all her belongings into storage. With no income at the moment I’m hoping Lauren’s former colleagues, and even people that just want to help someone, will make a donation to help her get back on her feet.
Lauren would love hearing from her former colleagues at the Los Angeles Times, drop her a message at pillowjockey@yahoo.com
Donations can be sent to:
Lauren Turner
1480 W. 46th Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90062
I received a disturbing call this afternoon regarding the poor health of a former colleague in the pressroom. According to Misty Griffin, Orange County Pressroom supervisor, our friend and former presswomen Lauren Turner is suffering from Lupus. This landed Lauren in the hospital for many weeks, unable to earn a living, Lauren had to vacate her home and place all her belongings into storage. With no income at the moment I’m hoping Lauren’s former colleagues, and even people that just want to help someone, will make a donation to help her get back on her feet.
Lauren would love hearing from her former colleagues at the Los Angeles Times, drop her a message at pillowjockey@yahoo.com
Donations can be sent to:
Lauren Turner
1480 W. 46th Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90062
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Jack Klunder Memo
Over the past weeks, I have been spending a great deal of time talking with the newspaper advertising sales leadership. These conversations have been very helpful to me and have confirmed that we have a very dedicated and talented sales team.
However, it has also become clear to me that in order to improve our revenue performance, we need to manage advertising’s sales operations in a much more disciplined manner. To address this need, we are organizing a new administrative group in the advertising department. This administrative group will be responsible for working with the advertising sales leadership team to implement effective processes for managing:
·Revenue planning, including reporting, goal setting and tracking
·New product development and implementation
·Sales strategy development, including pricing and product packaging
·Sales performance, including compensation/incentive programs, standards and metrics and accountability
·Coordination of sales training and recruitment with Human Resources
I am pleased to announce that Kim McCleary La France has been named to oversee this new group as Vice President Sales Operations and Planning. Kim will be strongly supported by Michele Manzo-Lembo and Ralph Muniz. As a result of this move, Marian Shima, Director of Public Affairs will take over the Public Affairs department and staff, reporting to Gwen Murakami.
Michele Manzo-Lembo has been named Director of Sales Strategy and Operations and will continue to oversee the development and implementation of new products, coordination of sales training and recruitment and advertising technology and systems. She will assume the additional responsibility of managing the processes for revenue planning, sales strategy development, and sales performance accountability.
Ralph Muniz, Director of Advertising Administration, will continue to oversee the management of advertising’s financial budget and revenue reports and will help to develop new benchmarking and metric reports that will enable the sales team to more effectively manage their business.
We are still in the process of searching for a Senior Vice President, Sales. In the interim, Kim and the Sales Directors will report to me.
This new structure will provide sales with the infrastructure and effective business processes to support our sales team and optimize our revenue performance. Thank you all for your continued support.
Jack Klunder
President, Los Angeles Times Newspaper
Over the past weeks, I have been spending a great deal of time talking with the newspaper advertising sales leadership. These conversations have been very helpful to me and have confirmed that we have a very dedicated and talented sales team.
However, it has also become clear to me that in order to improve our revenue performance, we need to manage advertising’s sales operations in a much more disciplined manner. To address this need, we are organizing a new administrative group in the advertising department. This administrative group will be responsible for working with the advertising sales leadership team to implement effective processes for managing:
·Revenue planning, including reporting, goal setting and tracking
·New product development and implementation
·Sales strategy development, including pricing and product packaging
·Sales performance, including compensation/incentive programs, standards and metrics and accountability
·Coordination of sales training and recruitment with Human Resources
I am pleased to announce that Kim McCleary La France has been named to oversee this new group as Vice President Sales Operations and Planning. Kim will be strongly supported by Michele Manzo-Lembo and Ralph Muniz. As a result of this move, Marian Shima, Director of Public Affairs will take over the Public Affairs department and staff, reporting to Gwen Murakami.
Michele Manzo-Lembo has been named Director of Sales Strategy and Operations and will continue to oversee the development and implementation of new products, coordination of sales training and recruitment and advertising technology and systems. She will assume the additional responsibility of managing the processes for revenue planning, sales strategy development, and sales performance accountability.
Ralph Muniz, Director of Advertising Administration, will continue to oversee the management of advertising’s financial budget and revenue reports and will help to develop new benchmarking and metric reports that will enable the sales team to more effectively manage their business.
We are still in the process of searching for a Senior Vice President, Sales. In the interim, Kim and the Sales Directors will report to me.
This new structure will provide sales with the infrastructure and effective business processes to support our sales team and optimize our revenue performance. Thank you all for your continued support.
Jack Klunder
President, Los Angeles Times Newspaper
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Mid-Week News
Pressmen's dinner May 1970
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- Five Years Of The Iraq War - National Press Photographers Association
- ABC Overhauls Some Key Rules on Counting Circ - Editor & Publisher
- Ohio Newspaper Pages Could Shrink this Year - Daily Bellwether
- McClatchy Reports February 2008 Revenues - McClatchy Co.
- Daily News moves to Menlo Park building - SFP Press Club
- Newspapers Should Focus on Local News - Media Shift
- Zell ready to flex Tribune Co. muscle - Chicago Tribune
- LAT In The Limelight: It Ain't Pretty - Mayrav Saar
- Dow Jones will stop carrying AP news - Reuters
- KTLA Adds Morning Show - Media Week
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Zell exec Ed Wilson Memo
Today marks the beginning of a bold new era for Tribune Broadcasting—we’re taking the unprecedented step of joining the print and broadcast operations of WSFL in South Florida with those of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. For the first time ever, we’ll have all our media properties in this region under one roof in Ft. Lauderdale.
And that is great news for consumers and advertisers. It will give us the chance to develop new content, programming and sales opportunities in such areas as fashion, food, travel, entertainment and lifestyle. It will give advertisers a single point of contact and a way of buying media efficiently across all our properties in South Florida.
Since we didn’t think he had enough to do while running two newspapers, Sun-Sentinel publisher Howard Greenberg, who is also serving as interim publisher of the Orlando Sentinel, will assume the additional responsibilities of general manager at WSFL. Also joining the new leadership team at WSFL is Allyson Meyers, who will serve as station manager.
Howard knows the region better than anyone; Ally knows TV sales and operations. Together they’ll make a great team....
Ed
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
Today marks the beginning of a bold new era for Tribune Broadcasting—we’re taking the unprecedented step of joining the print and broadcast operations of WSFL in South Florida with those of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. For the first time ever, we’ll have all our media properties in this region under one roof in Ft. Lauderdale.
And that is great news for consumers and advertisers. It will give us the chance to develop new content, programming and sales opportunities in such areas as fashion, food, travel, entertainment and lifestyle. It will give advertisers a single point of contact and a way of buying media efficiently across all our properties in South Florida.
Since we didn’t think he had enough to do while running two newspapers, Sun-Sentinel publisher Howard Greenberg, who is also serving as interim publisher of the Orlando Sentinel, will assume the additional responsibilities of general manager at WSFL. Also joining the new leadership team at WSFL is Allyson Meyers, who will serve as station manager.
Howard knows the region better than anyone; Ally knows TV sales and operations. Together they’ll make a great team....
Ed
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
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Tribune Creates Multimedia Powerhouse in South Florida
Company Joins Broadcast, Interactive and Newspaper Operations
Under One Roof;
Properties Will Collaborate to Generate Unique Content and Sales Opportunities
CHICAGO Mar. 19, 2008 -- Tribune Company today announced that it will join the broadcast and interactive operations of its Miami television station, WSFL-TV (CW39), with those of its Ft. Lauderdale-based newspaper, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, under a single roof to create a media powerhouse serving readers, viewers and advertisers.
Specific benefits of combining TV, newspaper and online operations in South Florida include:
- South Florida’s leading source for news and information, the Sun-Sentinel,
will serve as a new and innovative content engine for WSFL’s on-air and online
programming. - More choices and greater market coverage for
advertisers. - Increased efficiency for advertisers, who will have a single
point of contact for all three properties. - Unlimited cross-promotional
activities.
“This strategy is unprecedented in a major U.S. market,” said Howard Greenberg, Sun-Sentinel president and publisher. “This gives our print, broadcast and interactive operations the opportunity to work together to develop unique content and programming in a variety of areas. Plus, with this combination, there will be no better way for advertisers to reach more people with a consistent message.”
In addition to his duties as publisher of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, interim publisher of the Orlando Sentinel, and part-time Lake Okeechobee tour boat captain, Greenberg will become general manager of WSFL.
Ed Wilson, president of Tribune Broadcasting said, “This approach makes great sense for consumers and advertisers in South Florida, and keeps Greenberg busy and off the streets.”
Tribune also announced that Allyson Meyers is returning to WSFL as station manager after one year as general manager with WCWJ-TV in Jacksonville. Meyers was general sales manager at WSFL from 2004 to 2007.
“I’m excited about this,” Meyers said. “Having the print and interactive resources of the Sun-Sentinel within arms reach will be a tremendous advantage. And we’ll be a good resource for the newspaper, too—it has to work both ways to maximize the opportunity.”
WSFL will move into existing space at the Sun-Sentinel’s offices in Ft. Lauderdale.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
San Francisco Peninsula Press Club: CBS5 to provide news video, ads to bloggers
CBS5 is trying a new way to get its news headlines, video and advertising to the public. CBS5 is offering widgets to local bloggers and social media Web sites. Each widget will feature top local headlines and images with links to the video and text stories on the CBS station's site. Included in the widget is a banner ad that CBS5 will sell, but share the revenue with the blogger or Web site. Local sites that have already become members of the CBS 5 Local Ad Network include SFBayStyle and UrbanSpoon .
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Tuesday Morning Hyperlinks
Former pressmen Tony King and John Garay
- Bad News for News - Fishbowl LA
- We need online rules - Miami Herald
- McClatchy sees revenues fall - SacBee
- Sidelined at the Big Board - Newsosaur
- Herald Examiner slide show - Kevin Roderick
- The End of the Shared Media Experience? - Advertising Age
- Buyouts cut long-time staffers from Chicago Tribune - Talking Biz
- I have to keep this discussion about blogging going - Mark Cuban
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Monday, March 17, 2008
An Irish Blessing
"May there always be work for your
hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your
windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow
each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness
to cheer you.”
hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your
windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow
each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness
to cheer you.”
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
How things have changed (Warning: sissy stuff)
Impressions of fashion week--
Everyone reporting was doing it for online sources. Almost no one works solely for print publications anymore. I met tons of bloggers --some of their blogs are really bad. Most have a bunch of ads up and all they do is say, "oooo.... I liked this dress and then had people "vote." Most of the good writing came from veteran fashion journalists --kind of a breed nearing extinction and it was a pleasure to meet them. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week made it easy --they even provide official photographs online that we could access. So really, there's no reason to even bring your photographer anymore. Amazing.
And... the papparazzi is really obnoxious. I saw one lady holding a microphone 2" from Mena Suvari's face as she was just sitting there trying to get ready for the show.
Everyone reporting was doing it for online sources. Almost no one works solely for print publications anymore. I met tons of bloggers --some of their blogs are really bad. Most have a bunch of ads up and all they do is say, "oooo.... I liked this dress and then had people "vote." Most of the good writing came from veteran fashion journalists --kind of a breed nearing extinction and it was a pleasure to meet them. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week made it easy --they even provide official photographs online that we could access. So really, there's no reason to even bring your photographer anymore. Amazing.
And... the papparazzi is really obnoxious. I saw one lady holding a microphone 2" from Mena Suvari's face as she was just sitting there trying to get ready for the show.
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Filming of the Soloist at the Los Angeles Times
Last Thursday and Friday the Los Angeles Times Olympic Production Facility was transformed into a movie set for the filming of the Soloist. The movie is based on Los Angeles Times writer Steve Lopez’ article on musician Nathaniel Ayers, starring Robert Downey Jr., and Jamie Foxx.
The pressroom and mailroom has been the scene of many commercials and movie’s the last few years, with the film crews sometimes using props and others times using the pressmen and women as their props.
Last Thursday and Friday the Los Angeles Times Olympic Production Facility was transformed into a movie set for the filming of the Soloist. The movie is based on Los Angeles Times writer Steve Lopez’ article on musician Nathaniel Ayers, starring Robert Downey Jr., and Jamie Foxx.
The pressroom and mailroom has been the scene of many commercials and movie’s the last few years, with the film crews sometimes using props and others times using the pressmen and women as their props.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Sartorialists At The Gate
Typical day:
Get up, blog. Download photos and check the Mercedes Benz site for uploaded shots of the shows. Go through mail, walk dog, do yard work. Make Bolognese sauce --enough for 1 day of spaghetti, one day of lasagna. Go get kids. Explain to them that you will be back around 10:00 p.m. --earlier if you can. Drive to MBFW through choked freeways. Think of kids at home, probably watching reality TV and fighting over who has to heat up the lasagna.
I think of all the lines written about fashion week, Metromix Fashion Editor Marcos Luevanos came up with the winner:
I also brought a box of GirlScout cookies as a thank you to James Freni and the others in the Press Office. They've worked tirelessly for a month to help all of us bloggers, editors, videographers and photographers to gain access to the shows. They loved the cookies. As one said, "There are no Girl Scouts in Manhattan."
Allison McKenna was there. She's the
Senior Editor from Kiwibox, which is a site for teens and young college students. I hope I can hook her up with Professional Skateboarder Holly Lyons who has started a line of skate clothing for young and teenage girls. Holly and I met at the Suh Tahn show.
Swimwear designer Ashley Paige. Photo courtesy of Mercedes Benz.
So we didn't get into Ashley Paige's swimwear show. The tent, with a capacity of 350, was simply too small given that Ashley had invited 700 of her best friends. I think AP could easily fill the main tent next year, and maybe should stage 2 shows --one for her 10,000 friends, the other for the press, editors and buyers who should of course, get the goody bags because we need to be kept happy.
So instead of the lowdown on the show, I'll report on a few of her invited guests, who all had something to do with money, finance and otherwise keeping AP out of the red. One feathered-hair chap was hitting on a model type in front of him without any success. Finally, he was approached by a gamine jeune fille and the two played a game of ping pong flirtation. Miss Y's line was, "I have been to NY, like 12 times." Mr. X's line was, "You're really cute, I'm going to put you into my phone and call you sometime." Too funny. Does that line work? Yes, it still does. Miss Y was thrilled. Later on, we overheard from someone who knows him that Mr.X has a girlfriend. No doubt, Mr. X will call Miss Y from his car.
And really, Ashley, this is why we bloggeristas should get into your shows. We hear and see things unfit to print.
I was going to stay for Pussycat Dolls. But earlier when I'd gone to Trader Joe's, Ajay the clerk looked at me and said, "So what's it going to be, a tube sock and some torn panty hose?"
Touché, Ajay. I went home and decided to let Marcos suffer through it instead.
Typical day:
Get up, blog. Download photos and check the Mercedes Benz site for uploaded shots of the shows. Go through mail, walk dog, do yard work. Make Bolognese sauce --enough for 1 day of spaghetti, one day of lasagna. Go get kids. Explain to them that you will be back around 10:00 p.m. --earlier if you can. Drive to MBFW through choked freeways. Think of kids at home, probably watching reality TV and fighting over who has to heat up the lasagna.
I think of all the lines written about fashion week, Metromix Fashion Editor Marcos Luevanos came up with the winner:
"After a day of greatly disliking pretty much every show—Suh Than’s being the exception—we were in low spirits. Would we have to spend the remaining three days in agony on the side of the runway like a Hummer-struck fawn?"I also found out who the nattily attired gentleman was who I'd seen since day one. Christopher M is a professional stylist and works with .....well, stars, editorial spreads and the gamut of all things fashion. Believe me, when you get your big book accepted and have hired a PR company, you want to consult Christopher M.
I also brought a box of GirlScout cookies as a thank you to James Freni and the others in the Press Office. They've worked tirelessly for a month to help all of us bloggers, editors, videographers and photographers to gain access to the shows. They loved the cookies. As one said, "There are no Girl Scouts in Manhattan."
Allison McKenna was there. She's the
Senior Editor from Kiwibox, which is a site for teens and young college students. I hope I can hook her up with Professional Skateboarder Holly Lyons who has started a line of skate clothing for young and teenage girls. Holly and I met at the Suh Tahn show.
Swimwear designer Ashley Paige. Photo courtesy of Mercedes Benz.So we didn't get into Ashley Paige's swimwear show. The tent, with a capacity of 350, was simply too small given that Ashley had invited 700 of her best friends. I think AP could easily fill the main tent next year, and maybe should stage 2 shows --one for her 10,000 friends, the other for the press, editors and buyers who should of course, get the goody bags because we need to be kept happy.
So instead of the lowdown on the show, I'll report on a few of her invited guests, who all had something to do with money, finance and otherwise keeping AP out of the red. One feathered-hair chap was hitting on a model type in front of him without any success. Finally, he was approached by a gamine jeune fille and the two played a game of ping pong flirtation. Miss Y's line was, "I have been to NY, like 12 times." Mr. X's line was, "You're really cute, I'm going to put you into my phone and call you sometime." Too funny. Does that line work? Yes, it still does. Miss Y was thrilled. Later on, we overheard from someone who knows him that Mr.X has a girlfriend. No doubt, Mr. X will call Miss Y from his car.
And really, Ashley, this is why we bloggeristas should get into your shows. We hear and see things unfit to print.
I was going to stay for Pussycat Dolls. But earlier when I'd gone to Trader Joe's, Ajay the clerk looked at me and said, "So what's it going to be, a tube sock and some torn panty hose?"
Touché, Ajay. I went home and decided to let Marcos suffer through it instead.
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Will You Baldly Step Forward to Help?
On Saturday March 15, 2008, Los Angeles Firefighters and Police Officers will be hosting their fifth annual combined St. Baldrick’s Event, and you are welcome to participate or cheer them on at a fun-filled family event in North Hollywood from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
- Free Pancake Breakfast (9:00 AM to 11:00 AM)
- KIIS-FM- Monster Energy Truck
- Providence Blood Donations
- National Marrow Donor Program
- Childwatch Registration
- Free photo and gifts for the kids!
- LAFD FireHogs and FireRods Display
- Silent Auction
Participants, or "Shavees" as they are known, will be collecting pledges from friends and family in exchange for shaving their heads. The bald heads signify solidarity with child victims of cancer, who often lose their hair while undergoing treatment.
Even if you choose not to shave, there is a need for general volunteers and supporters to help make the magic happen.
If this seems even remotely familiar - or you wonder why we are so passionate, please take moment to look at the single most visited LAFD blog post of all time
....and then, if you'd like to do something *really* special, in memory of someone *very* special, please click here.
All money raised at this event goes to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, and is distributed to doctors and other researchers on the front lines of the war on childhood cancer.
WHO: LAPD and LAFD Personnel and you, our friends!
WHAT: Fundraiser for Childhood Cancer Research
WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 2008 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
WHERE: LAFD Station #89, 7063 Laurel Canyon Blvd, North Hollywood
WHY: Raising Money to Fight Childhood Cancer
HOW: Sign Up or Donate at www.stbaldricks.org
Will you baldly step forward, or make a small on-line donation right now to applaud those who do?
Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
On Saturday March 15, 2008, Los Angeles Firefighters and Police Officers will be hosting their fifth annual combined St. Baldrick’s Event, and you are welcome to participate or cheer them on at a fun-filled family event in North Hollywood from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
- Free Pancake Breakfast (9:00 AM to 11:00 AM)
- KIIS-FM- Monster Energy Truck
- Providence Blood Donations
- National Marrow Donor Program
- Childwatch Registration
- Free photo and gifts for the kids!
- LAFD FireHogs and FireRods Display
- Silent Auction
Participants, or "Shavees" as they are known, will be collecting pledges from friends and family in exchange for shaving their heads. The bald heads signify solidarity with child victims of cancer, who often lose their hair while undergoing treatment.
Even if you choose not to shave, there is a need for general volunteers and supporters to help make the magic happen.
If this seems even remotely familiar - or you wonder why we are so passionate, please take moment to look at the single most visited LAFD blog post of all time
....and then, if you'd like to do something *really* special, in memory of someone *very* special, please click here.
All money raised at this event goes to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, and is distributed to doctors and other researchers on the front lines of the war on childhood cancer.
WHO: LAPD and LAFD Personnel and you, our friends!
WHAT: Fundraiser for Childhood Cancer Research
WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 2008 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
WHERE: LAFD Station #89, 7063 Laurel Canyon Blvd, North Hollywood
WHY: Raising Money to Fight Childhood Cancer
HOW: Sign Up or Donate at www.stbaldricks.org
Will you baldly step forward, or make a small on-line donation right now to applaud those who do?
Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
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End of Week News
Blanca Ortiz and Cesar Calderon 
- Blogging and Newspapers - Mark Cuban
- Take the news out, put the new in* - Reporter - G
- Gannett CEO Gets $7.9 Million in 2007 - Associated Press
- Bloggers and bloggers and blogs, oh my! - Los Angeles Times
- Zell's firm could make $15 million on Prop. 98 - Kevin Roderick
- Newsprint delivers -- except on the bottom line - National Journal
- Post "Regrettably" Forced To Offer More Buyouts - Fishbowl D.C.
- Tribune chairman may consider sale of some assets - Baltimore Sun
- Readers wishing to post comments need to be registered - Miami Herald
- It’s Time For Newspaper Publishers To Reset Targets - Follow the Media
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Golf Cart Drivers Needed for Festival of Books
It’s that time of year again to start accepting volunteers to drive author escort golf carts at the Festival of Books. Many of you have already expressed an interest, so if you’re free for either Saturday, April 26 or Sunday, April 27 please email Jeff Dalo your preferred day to drive and we will slot you in.
For those that haven’t driven before, this is one of the coolest jobs at the Festival of Books. If you love books and authors, this is an opportunity to meeting some of the best authors in the country and even internationally. It’s also an opportunity to work on the inside of the largest book festival in the country and be a direct part of its success. It’s important that we only use LA Times employees for these spots for both liability reasons and also to make sure that we are representing ourselves in the best way possible to our outstanding line up of authors.
Here’s a short list of who we have so far: Julie Andrews, Aimee Mann, Maria Shriver, Padma Lakshmi, Gore Vidal, Walter Mosley, Luis J. Rodriguez, Ray Bradbury, Kenny Mayne and Arianna Huffington.
The details:
. We ask for a one-day commitment, either 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, or 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27
· If you have not driven before we ask that you attend one of two training sessions at UCLA on either Sunday, April 20 from 2-4pm or Wednesday, April 23 from 6-8pm. The training consists of 1-hour of general training followed by a 1-hour tour of the Festival grounds.
· We provide a 6-passenger covered golf cart, a walkie-talkie radio, a staff polo shirt, lunch, parking, maps and instructions. We provide parking for the training session as well.
· The job entails driving authors around the festival, e.g. from the author greenroom to their panels and stages, from the panels and stages to the signing areas, from the signing areas back to the greenroom, and sometimes to and from the parking lots for the more elderly authors.
· We require that you be a good driver and are friendly and personable. This is all about catering to the authors to make sure they, as well, have the time of their lives.
How to sign up:
Email Jeff Dalo, jeff.dalo@latimes.com, or call Jeff at x76542. Jeff will need your extension, cell number, the day you want to drive and your shirt size. A logistics packet will be sent to you in mid-April.
Golf Cart Drivers Needed for Festival of Books
It’s that time of year again to start accepting volunteers to drive author escort golf carts at the Festival of Books. Many of you have already expressed an interest, so if you’re free for either Saturday, April 26 or Sunday, April 27 please email Jeff Dalo your preferred day to drive and we will slot you in.
For those that haven’t driven before, this is one of the coolest jobs at the Festival of Books. If you love books and authors, this is an opportunity to meeting some of the best authors in the country and even internationally. It’s also an opportunity to work on the inside of the largest book festival in the country and be a direct part of its success. It’s important that we only use LA Times employees for these spots for both liability reasons and also to make sure that we are representing ourselves in the best way possible to our outstanding line up of authors.
Here’s a short list of who we have so far: Julie Andrews, Aimee Mann, Maria Shriver, Padma Lakshmi, Gore Vidal, Walter Mosley, Luis J. Rodriguez, Ray Bradbury, Kenny Mayne and Arianna Huffington.
The details:
. We ask for a one-day commitment, either 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, or 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27
· If you have not driven before we ask that you attend one of two training sessions at UCLA on either Sunday, April 20 from 2-4pm or Wednesday, April 23 from 6-8pm. The training consists of 1-hour of general training followed by a 1-hour tour of the Festival grounds.
· We provide a 6-passenger covered golf cart, a walkie-talkie radio, a staff polo shirt, lunch, parking, maps and instructions. We provide parking for the training session as well.
· The job entails driving authors around the festival, e.g. from the author greenroom to their panels and stages, from the panels and stages to the signing areas, from the signing areas back to the greenroom, and sometimes to and from the parking lots for the more elderly authors.
· We require that you be a good driver and are friendly and personable. This is all about catering to the authors to make sure they, as well, have the time of their lives.
How to sign up:
Email Jeff Dalo, jeff.dalo@latimes.com, or call Jeff at x76542. Jeff will need your extension, cell number, the day you want to drive and your shirt size. A logistics packet will be sent to you in mid-April.
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David Markland Lands New Gig
I find it gratifying when friends and family do well, which brings to mind my friend David Markland, a contributor at Metblogs. David and I met for the first time at the Media Bistro party last year, and I still remember his first words to me “I’m sorry Edward, I’m going to put you and your newspaper out of business”.
He wasn’t kidding if you take a look at a newspaper near you, and the migration most newspaper companies are taking towards the Internet.
David holds a special place in my heart, as he was one of the many unsung hero’s that helped with the party after we buried my son Bryan last August, for this he will always gain my attention and admiration.
KNBC has launched a new (pardon the vernacular Mark Cuban) blog, titled California Faultline, which David operates, drop by and I’m certain you will enjoy his writing style.
I find it gratifying when friends and family do well, which brings to mind my friend David Markland, a contributor at Metblogs. David and I met for the first time at the Media Bistro party last year, and I still remember his first words to me “I’m sorry Edward, I’m going to put you and your newspaper out of business”.
He wasn’t kidding if you take a look at a newspaper near you, and the migration most newspaper companies are taking towards the Internet.
David holds a special place in my heart, as he was one of the many unsung hero’s that helped with the party after we buried my son Bryan last August, for this he will always gain my attention and admiration.
KNBC has launched a new (pardon the vernacular Mark Cuban) blog, titled California Faultline, which David operates, drop by and I’m certain you will enjoy his writing style.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Los Angeles Times Union Negotiations Update
The parties met for negotiations on March 13th, which marks the eighteenth negotiation session. Present on behalf of The Times was Chief Negotiator Timothy Fair, (Tribune Company Senior Labor Councel) and committee members Russ Newton (Senior Vice President Operations), Jay Scott (Director of Human Resources), and Sam Park (Human Resources Manager). Present on behalf of the union was Chief Negotiator Mike Huggins, Union Attorney Adam Stern, Shop Stewards Ronnie Pineda, Keith Denson, David Rascon and Charles Reney.
The Company and the Union reached agreement on a severance package in connection with the previously announced 1.8 million dollar savings initiative in the pressroom. Although more details will follow, the highlights include up to 52 weeks severance and health care for those who voluntarily resign. The application, plan description and overall procedures will be available on Wednesday, March 19 in Human Resources at both plants. The application process will close on Wednesday, April 2nd at 3pm.
Also, as to the overall negotiations, the parties have tentatively agreed to language on the Grievance procedure. Negotiations will resume on Tuesday, March 18.
Russ
The parties met for negotiations on March 13th, which marks the eighteenth negotiation session. Present on behalf of The Times was Chief Negotiator Timothy Fair, (Tribune Company Senior Labor Councel) and committee members Russ Newton (Senior Vice President Operations), Jay Scott (Director of Human Resources), and Sam Park (Human Resources Manager). Present on behalf of the union was Chief Negotiator Mike Huggins, Union Attorney Adam Stern, Shop Stewards Ronnie Pineda, Keith Denson, David Rascon and Charles Reney.
The Company and the Union reached agreement on a severance package in connection with the previously announced 1.8 million dollar savings initiative in the pressroom. Although more details will follow, the highlights include up to 52 weeks severance and health care for those who voluntarily resign. The application, plan description and overall procedures will be available on Wednesday, March 19 in Human Resources at both plants. The application process will close on Wednesday, April 2nd at 3pm.
Also, as to the overall negotiations, the parties have tentatively agreed to language on the Grievance procedure. Negotiations will resume on Tuesday, March 18.
Russ
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Teamsters and Los Angeles Times Reach Agreement
An agreement between the Union and the Los Angeles Times regarding buyouts for the employees of the Orange County and Olympic production plants has been reached this afternoon. Details to follow as soon as possible.
An agreement between the Union and the Los Angeles Times regarding buyouts for the employees of the Orange County and Olympic production plants has been reached this afternoon. Details to follow as soon as possible.
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Thursday Morning News
Blogging Pressman meets Union Negotiator Mike Huggins
- Human Viagra Has a Potty Mouth - Tina Dupuy
- Surviving a round of LAT layoffs - Darleene Powells
- Tribune's new innovation guy speaks - Kevin Roderick
- LAT Changes Its Stance, Picket Avoided - Mayrav Saar
- Los Angeles City Hall layoffs loom - Los Angeles Daily News
- Fear and Loathing in Long Beach - Newspaper Death Watch
- LA Herald Examiner's Almost-20th Reunion Party - Mayrav Saar
- Claremont Hate Crime Sentencing Delayed - Claremont Insider
- Post-Dispatch to eliminate 31 positions - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- TV Reporter Attacked By Racist Crowd In South Carolina - Gawker
- Newspaper eliminates 27 positions, laying off 15 - Portland Press-Herald
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An Homage to the Last Great Newspaper Editor
By Ron Kaye, Daily News editor-in-chief
HE called his memoir "The Last Editor ..." but the whole truth is that Jim Bellows was the last great American newspaper editor.
Bellows' witty sensibility, his nose for news, his journalistic pizazz were relics of a dying era when he took over the New York Herald-Tribune in the 1950s and turned it into what is widely regarded as the nation's best newspaper - ever.
He was a Zen master talking in haiku and koans that were incomprehensible to many, the path to the light for others.
He spotted talented writers and editors and gave them the permission and support to break through the conformity and mediocrity that became the hallmark of corporate monopoly journalism in America in the 1950s and 1960s.
It was in that era that television destroyed the business model of newspapers, just as the Internet is doing today. The result back then was that roughly half the papers in the country failed, and the danger today is that something similar might well happen again.
Bellows is being honored tonight at the L.A. Press Club by the staff of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, which closed nearly 20 years ago. I worked for Bellows there in the early 1980s and was lucky enough to work with him again when he became a consultant here at the Daily News a few years back.
It was a humbling experience to work for a news genius. Bellows had X-ray vision for the news behind the news, inside the news, the angle that hit readers between the eyes, in the heart, in the guts.
In New York, and everywhere, he attracted great writers like Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and many others who liberated newspaper writing and reporting and took their craft to new heights.
At the Washington Star, he brought style and attitude to the nation's capital and Capitol. Later at the Herald-Examiner in Los Angeles he resurrected a newspaper from the grave, and came closer to capturing the ethos of this city than anyone before or since.
Yes, all three papers are long since gone. For it was Jim Bellows' karma to be the underdog, to be given the reins of papers that faced impossible odds against giant newspapers with unlimited resources.
The full title of his memoir captures the irony: "The Last Editor: How I saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency."
I'm not sure I agree totally that those or any other major American newspapers were really rescued from their arrogance, and that may be the biggest reason we are all in trouble today.
But I do know that if Jim Bellows had ever had the chance to run one of those papers, especially the Los Angeles Times, where he was once a top news executive, they would not be like they are today.
They would be surprising, provocative and daring. Many of the writers would seem like friends who dropped by to share a laugh, a tear, a story you'd never heard before.
That's what Jim Bellows taught the journalists who worked for him.
And he did it in cryptic phrases and words:
Tom Wolfe told an interviewer Bellows' teaching was: "Keep going and don't stop."
Former Herald-Examiner columnist Randall Sullivan recalled Bellows teaching him the difference between New York and Los Angeles: "In New York people want to know where you work; in L.A. where you live."
Bellows' message to me was simply: "Stick with your passion."
Ron Kaye is the Daily News' editor-in-chief. Write to him by e-mail at ron.kaye@dailynews.com.
HE called his memoir "The Last Editor ..." but the whole truth is that Jim Bellows was the last great American newspaper editor.
Bellows' witty sensibility, his nose for news, his journalistic pizazz were relics of a dying era when he took over the New York Herald-Tribune in the 1950s and turned it into what is widely regarded as the nation's best newspaper - ever.
He was a Zen master talking in haiku and koans that were incomprehensible to many, the path to the light for others.
He spotted talented writers and editors and gave them the permission and support to break through the conformity and mediocrity that became the hallmark of corporate monopoly journalism in America in the 1950s and 1960s.
It was in that era that television destroyed the business model of newspapers, just as the Internet is doing today. The result back then was that roughly half the papers in the country failed, and the danger today is that something similar might well happen again.
Bellows is being honored tonight at the L.A. Press Club by the staff of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, which closed nearly 20 years ago. I worked for Bellows there in the early 1980s and was lucky enough to work with him again when he became a consultant here at the Daily News a few years back.
It was a humbling experience to work for a news genius. Bellows had X-ray vision for the news behind the news, inside the news, the angle that hit readers between the eyes, in the heart, in the guts.
In New York, and everywhere, he attracted great writers like Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and many others who liberated newspaper writing and reporting and took their craft to new heights.
At the Washington Star, he brought style and attitude to the nation's capital and Capitol. Later at the Herald-Examiner in Los Angeles he resurrected a newspaper from the grave, and came closer to capturing the ethos of this city than anyone before or since.
Yes, all three papers are long since gone. For it was Jim Bellows' karma to be the underdog, to be given the reins of papers that faced impossible odds against giant newspapers with unlimited resources.
The full title of his memoir captures the irony: "The Last Editor: How I saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency."
I'm not sure I agree totally that those or any other major American newspapers were really rescued from their arrogance, and that may be the biggest reason we are all in trouble today.
But I do know that if Jim Bellows had ever had the chance to run one of those papers, especially the Los Angeles Times, where he was once a top news executive, they would not be like they are today.
They would be surprising, provocative and daring. Many of the writers would seem like friends who dropped by to share a laugh, a tear, a story you'd never heard before.
That's what Jim Bellows taught the journalists who worked for him.
And he did it in cryptic phrases and words:
Tom Wolfe told an interviewer Bellows' teaching was: "Keep going and don't stop."
Former Herald-Examiner columnist Randall Sullivan recalled Bellows teaching him the difference between New York and Los Angeles: "In New York people want to know where you work; in L.A. where you live."
Bellows' message to me was simply: "Stick with your passion."
Ron Kaye is the Daily News' editor-in-chief. Write to him by e-mail at ron.kaye@dailynews.com.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
WGN Weatherman flips out - "I Own This Place"
WGN Morning News sports anchor Pat Tomasulo did a funny bit about the new ownership deal involving Sam Zell and the Tribune Co. But leave it to everyone's favorite weatherman Tom Freakin' Skilling to steal the show. "Do you know who I am!?"
WGN Morning News sports anchor Pat Tomasulo did a funny bit about the new ownership deal involving Sam Zell and the Tribune Co. But leave it to everyone's favorite weatherman Tom Freakin' Skilling to steal the show. "Do you know who I am!?"
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Mid-Week News Links
Pressmen Gideon Brown and Kevin Kuylen
- D.C. bureaus cut costs, coverage - Politico
- Picketting At The L.A. Times? - Mayrav Saar
- Publisher: Papers must evolve - Business Week
- Regional Dailies Give Business Away - Ken Doctor
- Star-Telegram to outsource 26 jobs - Star-Telegram
- Los Angeles Times is #1 at something - Kevin Roderick
- Judge rules against Hawaiian Newspaper - Star-Bulletin
- XM's Lee Abrams Moves To Tribune Co. - Washington Post
- Insularity of Newspapers is Even Worse than Feared - McGuire
- Charting 4-Year Circ Plunge at Major Papers - Editor & Publisher
- Dear Mr. Spitzer: did you pay for a tryst? - West Coast Grrlie Blather
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Los Angeles Times Union Negotiations Update
On February 18, 2008, the Company announced to the Union its intent to seek $1.8 million in cost savings from the pressroom. Since that time, the parties have engaged in good faith bargaining and have exchanged proposals on this issue. Today, the Company presented a counter-proposal to the Union on a severance package related to the $1.8 million cost-savings initiative. The highlight of the Company’s offer is as follows:
Subject to the Plan document, bargaining unit employees who volunteer to sever their employment from the LAT will receive severance pay, which include, but not limited to, up to 52-weeks severance and health care benefits; and
Subject to the Plan document, bargaining unit employees that are laid off involuntarily will receive severance pay, which include, but not limited to,
up to 26-weeks severance and health care benefits.
The Company explained to the Union that the above severance offer shall not create a precedent. Finally, the Company stated to the Union that the above offer of severance must be accepted by the Union in writing on or before noon on Monday, March 17, 2008, or the offer will be withdrawn without further notice.
Russ
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Suh-Tahn and Veronika Jeanvie
Suh-Tahn has done the unimaginable: they rethought the cardigan. Mister Rogers would've loved this updated cardigan pieced skillfully pieced together to move with the body. Even the jodhpurs were chic with intricate stitching below the knee. Their black outfits were draped, folded, and skillfully tucked. Taking their inspiration from the simplicity of tribal and sacred robes as well as neckpieces, Suh Tahn's collection melded a contemporary sensibility into this stunning collection rife wife with details that showcase a worldly aesthetic. Perhaps leaning a bit too heavily on black, it was nonetheless an interesting, engaging and enviable collection. Once again, Suh-Tahn shows it's all in the details.
Highly anticipated and making history, Ukranian designer Veronika Jeanvie. Jeanvie had her first show in the U.S.A. Mentored by acclaimed designer Paco Rabanne.
Rabanne is the designer who captured the experimentation of the 60's with his architectural renditions of dresses in industrial materials, chain mail, and geometric shapes. With her own take on chain mail along with a pointedly form fitting and feminine shape, Jeanvie showed that if you're going to go over the top, go all the way. Her clothes were nothing less than a total overthrow of the memories of Russian bread lines and borscht. Chain mail made cute. Russian mafia goes Vegas. Costume-a-rama. Though the crowd got snarky, let's face it: if we were all 21, a size 2, or were men in drag with bods, we'd be strutting our stuff on the strip ignoring the futile pleas of the Bellagio to show some subtley. Go baby, go. I couldn't help but notice Veronika put the FUN back in fashion week.
Suh-Tahn has done the unimaginable: they rethought the cardigan. Mister Rogers would've loved this updated cardigan pieced skillfully pieced together to move with the body. Even the jodhpurs were chic with intricate stitching below the knee. Their black outfits were draped, folded, and skillfully tucked. Taking their inspiration from the simplicity of tribal and sacred robes as well as neckpieces, Suh Tahn's collection melded a contemporary sensibility into this stunning collection rife wife with details that showcase a worldly aesthetic. Perhaps leaning a bit too heavily on black, it was nonetheless an interesting, engaging and enviable collection. Once again, Suh-Tahn shows it's all in the details.Highly anticipated and making history, Ukranian designer Veronika Jeanvie. Jeanvie had her first show in the U.S.A. Mentored by acclaimed designer Paco Rabanne.
Rabanne is the designer who captured the experimentation of the 60's with his architectural renditions of dresses in industrial materials, chain mail, and geometric shapes. With her own take on chain mail along with a pointedly form fitting and feminine shape, Jeanvie showed that if you're going to go over the top, go all the way. Her clothes were nothing less than a total overthrow of the memories of Russian bread lines and borscht. Chain mail made cute. Russian mafia goes Vegas. Costume-a-rama. Though the crowd got snarky, let's face it: if we were all 21, a size 2, or were men in drag with bods, we'd be strutting our stuff on the strip ignoring the futile pleas of the Bellagio to show some subtley. Go baby, go. I couldn't help but notice Veronika put the FUN back in fashion week.
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A Day At Fashion Week
For every eighty persons dressed in black, there are a few souls who dare to express who they are. Designer Dominique Blake was in L.A. with her best friend and model Gigi, who was wearing one of her creations. Dominique designs, makes and sells custom clothing at Reserved by Fashion Forward Boutique in Mount Vernon NY. Gigi is a criminal law student graduating this spring. She'll continue modeling as she embarks on her career.
Watch out for this duo: Mrs and Mrs..... was his name Howard? Why didn't I write this down --were a wonderfully retro-hip and funky couple dressed in vintage and silk. They sported wedding rings that could double as brass knuckles. She has a store in Hollywood called Mrs.Mr., and has couture shows at their house each Sunday. I regret that I wasn't able to catch up to the fashion student trio who were decked out in punk meets Heidi outfits. Drop me a line, would you?
Watch out for this duo: Mrs and Mrs..... was his name Howard? Why didn't I write this down --were a wonderfully retro-hip and funky couple dressed in vintage and silk. They sported wedding rings that could double as brass knuckles. She has a store in Hollywood called Mrs.Mr., and has couture shows at their house each Sunday. I regret that I wasn't able to catch up to the fashion student trio who were decked out in punk meets Heidi outfits. Drop me a line, would you?
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Do Tribune Employees Really Own The Company?
Many of our older users recall a television program from the early sixties called The Twilight Zone, which brings to mind the episode “To Serve Man”. In this particular story, aliens visit the Earth, with promises of ending disease and hunger. And deceive many humans into returning to the alien’s planet, where they will live happily among the aliens. Many of the aliens carried a book titled To Serve Man, which many humans misinterpreted to mean they would make life better on Earth, but the book was actually a cookbook on serving mankind.
Before the ink was dried on the Sam Zell deal to purchase the Tribune Company, banners went up all across Tribune properties, proclaiming the employees now own the company. Just as the alien’s book was deciphered into it’s true meaning, someone from Save Our Trade has spelled out what the true message of the banners really say.
Many of our older users recall a television program from the early sixties called The Twilight Zone, which brings to mind the episode “To Serve Man”. In this particular story, aliens visit the Earth, with promises of ending disease and hunger. And deceive many humans into returning to the alien’s planet, where they will live happily among the aliens. Many of the aliens carried a book titled To Serve Man, which many humans misinterpreted to mean they would make life better on Earth, but the book was actually a cookbook on serving mankind.
Before the ink was dried on the Sam Zell deal to purchase the Tribune Company, banners went up all across Tribune properties, proclaiming the employees now own the company. Just as the alien’s book was deciphered into it’s true meaning, someone from Save Our Trade has spelled out what the true message of the banners really say.
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Tuesday Morning Hyperlinks
Fred Kirby and Jim Wright
- Eight Reasons Plagiarism Sucks - Slate
- UCLA Says No Recession - Mark Lacter
- Sunday morning quarterback - Reporter-G
- Big pressroom cuts at Times - Kevin Roderick
- Sacramento Bee Launches Buyout Offers - SacBee
- Columnist, two editors to leave Globe - Boston Globe
- Variety Has AFTRA Settlement Story - Brady Westwater
- Bay Area Group Avoids Layoffs - Newspaper Death Watch
- 'Citizen McCaw': A Santa Barbara story - Los Angeles Times
- Murdoch: Yes, There's An Ad Slowdown - Silicon Alley Insider
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Downsizing at the Los Angeles Times
On Sunday one hundred and twenty pressroom employees from the Los Angeles Times Orange County and Olympic Facilities gathered in Duarte for the status of negotiations with the company. The news was not pleasant, with the Los Angeles Times setting an ultimatum for $1.8 million in cuts to be made by this Thursday the 13th of March, from the union, or thirty-one pressroom employees are to be laid off, with a six week severance.
The tactics the Los Angeles Times is using, as leverage against the men of women of the two pressrooms, seems to be retaliation for voting the union in last January, 2007. The pressroom employees have not been unionized for almost forty years, but one outspoken Tribune Boss, is completely responsible for bringing the union into the Times, yet many innocent victims will be displaced.
This action is not only about thirty-one employees being retaliated against, it’s about thirty-one families losing their livelihood, which many of my colleagues and I find unfortunate and unbelievable. All Tribune Company Employees that are being requested to leave, receive fifty-two weeks of severance pay, with the Los Angeles Times Pressrooms being singled out with six weeks severance.
For this reason the struggle will be taken to the public through picket lines outside Times Mirror Square, the Olympic Facility, and the Times Orange County Facility within the next few days.
The employees of the Los Angeles Times Pressrooms are seeking voluntary buyouts first, and then layoffs as a last resort.
On Sunday one hundred and twenty pressroom employees from the Los Angeles Times Orange County and Olympic Facilities gathered in Duarte for the status of negotiations with the company. The news was not pleasant, with the Los Angeles Times setting an ultimatum for $1.8 million in cuts to be made by this Thursday the 13th of March, from the union, or thirty-one pressroom employees are to be laid off, with a six week severance.
The tactics the Los Angeles Times is using, as leverage against the men of women of the two pressrooms, seems to be retaliation for voting the union in last January, 2007. The pressroom employees have not been unionized for almost forty years, but one outspoken Tribune Boss, is completely responsible for bringing the union into the Times, yet many innocent victims will be displaced.
This action is not only about thirty-one employees being retaliated against, it’s about thirty-one families losing their livelihood, which many of my colleagues and I find unfortunate and unbelievable. All Tribune Company Employees that are being requested to leave, receive fifty-two weeks of severance pay, with the Los Angeles Times Pressrooms being singled out with six weeks severance.
For this reason the struggle will be taken to the public through picket lines outside Times Mirror Square, the Olympic Facility, and the Times Orange County Facility within the next few days.
The employees of the Los Angeles Times Pressrooms are seeking voluntary buyouts first, and then layoffs as a last resort.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
San Francisco Peninsula Press Club: MediaNews cuts met by protests, warnings
Newsroom budget cuts by MediaNews have been met with protests in Southern California and a warning from the Society of Professional Journalists in Northern California.
In Southern California, MediaNews is merging the 65,000-circulation Torrance Daily Breeze and the 88,000 Long Beach Press-Telegram, which will eliminate 19 jobs and put the two papers under the same local management based in Torrance, according to AP. Staff at the Long Beach paper who were not immediately laid off were told to go to the Torrance office for interviews for their same positions, according to a report in the Cal State Long Beach 49er. The Long Beach operation, once a jewel in the Knight Ridder crown, will essentially become a bureau for the Torrance paper.
Angry staffers and readers complained to the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday, holding signs saying, "Save Our Jobs" and "Don't Take the Local Out Of Local News," according to the 49er (see picture). Council members said they fear Long Beach will lose solid local coverage with portions of the Press-Telegram based elsewhere.
"We need you. We need the hometown news," said Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal about the Press-Telegram at the city council meeting, according to the 49er.
City council member Tonia Reyes Uranga said the city spends $100,000 a year in advertisements in the Press-Telegram, and that she would like to see where that money is going.
In Northern California, SPJ issued a statement expressing concerns about job cuts at the MediaNews papers in the region and vowing to monitor the quality of journalism in those papers. The statement came out on Wednesday, before the Mercury News and other MediaNews papers in the region cut a total of 157 jobs. The statement said:
In Southern California, MediaNews is merging the 65,000-circulation Torrance Daily Breeze and the 88,000 Long Beach Press-Telegram, which will eliminate 19 jobs and put the two papers under the same local management based in Torrance, according to AP. Staff at the Long Beach paper who were not immediately laid off were told to go to the Torrance office for interviews for their same positions, according to a report in the Cal State Long Beach 49er. The Long Beach operation, once a jewel in the Knight Ridder crown, will essentially become a bureau for the Torrance paper.
Angry staffers and readers complained to the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday, holding signs saying, "Save Our Jobs" and "Don't Take the Local Out Of Local News," according to the 49er (see picture). Council members said they fear Long Beach will lose solid local coverage with portions of the Press-Telegram based elsewhere.
"We need you. We need the hometown news," said Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal about the Press-Telegram at the city council meeting, according to the 49er.
City council member Tonia Reyes Uranga said the city spends $100,000 a year in advertisements in the Press-Telegram, and that she would like to see where that money is going.
In Northern California, SPJ issued a statement expressing concerns about job cuts at the MediaNews papers in the region and vowing to monitor the quality of journalism in those papers. The statement came out on Wednesday, before the Mercury News and other MediaNews papers in the region cut a total of 157 jobs. The statement said:
The NorCal chapter will work with its membership to collect data documenting the
effects of the cutbacks on San Francisco Bay Area news coverage. Chapter
representatives will seek direct discussions with senior management of MediaNews
as well as journalists, union representatives, media analysts, academics,
community leaders and other interested parties. The board plans to share its
findings with the public and with concerned governmental officials.
(Photo credit: Matt Sun, Cal State Long Beach Daily 49er)
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Julia Clancey --All In The Details
Julia Clancey brings attitude to couture. Her first statement was one against the brutish treatment she suffered at the hands of the customs agents as she made her way to L.A. Apparently, they confiscated her collection for three days! It's not the first I've heard about the customs department at LAX, and sadly, she got caught up in a snafu. Clancey made public her struggle not by sending out a press release, but by putting it out on model for all to see.
This kicked off a high energy show, in which Clancey showed her mastery in the details of this collection. It was in the details along the neckline, the high collar of a cape, around the hip of tunic, and the unexpected hair and eye pieces. Quirky, but done with precision. As we say in in writing, what makes a piece rich is all in the details.
This kicked off a high energy show, in which Clancey showed her mastery in the details of this collection. It was in the details along the neckline, the high collar of a cape, around the hip of tunic, and the unexpected hair and eye pieces. Quirky, but done with precision. As we say in in writing, what makes a piece rich is all in the details.
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Monday Morning News
- Falling Axes - Claremont Insider
- Keep Sam Zell off welfare - Illinoize
- Sold out in Santa Barbara - Kevin Roderick
- Bear Stearns Warns of Turbulent '08 - Editor & Publisher
- LA Times Workers Wantonly Abandoned - Newsroom Magazine
- To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You - New York Times
- A Majority of Americans Don't Trust the Media - Fishbowl Los Angeles
- Why I Subscribed To The Washington Post Print Edition - Publishing 2.0
- Drumbeat of terrible earnings news continues - Newspaper Death Watch
- Why Charles Matthews Won't Read the Merc Any More - East Bay Express
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Sunday, March 09, 2008
Fashion: A Change of Pace
I'm off to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in L.A.
The invitations for shows have been coming via post and email.
It's a far step away from the woes of the book industry, Margart Jones, grappling with the form of poetry, or editing my novel.
Get Lost With Easy-Writer
I'm off to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in L.A.
The invitations for shows have been coming via post and email.
It's a far step away from the woes of the book industry, Margart Jones, grappling with the form of poetry, or editing my novel.
Get Lost With Easy-Writer
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Friday, March 07, 2008
San Francisco Peninsula Press Club: Merc cuts 50 jobs, names two new editors
The Mercury News said today it has cut 50 jobs — 16 through voluntary buyouts and 34 through layoffs. The cuts represent 5 percent of the paper's staff. It was the third round of layoffs since MediaNews Group acquired the paper in August 2006.
Yesterday, the Bay Area News Group-East Bay, which includes the Contra Costa Times and other MediaNews papers in the region, said it was able to avoid layoffs by giving buyouts to 107 of its employees.
At the Merc, 20 of the jobs lost were in the 173-person newsroom. Five newsroom workers accepted buyouts and 15 were laid off this morning. When MediaNews bought the paper, it had a newsroom of 242 people.
Editor David Butler also filled two vacancies today.
• Barbara J. Marshman, associate editor, will replace Stephen E. Wright as editorial page editor. She is the first woman to hold that job at the Merc.
• Deputy business editor Stephen R. Trousdale replaces Rebecca Salner as business editor.
The Mercury News said today it has cut 50 jobs — 16 through voluntary buyouts and 34 through layoffs. The cuts represent 5 percent of the paper's staff. It was the third round of layoffs since MediaNews Group acquired the paper in August 2006.
Yesterday, the Bay Area News Group-East Bay, which includes the Contra Costa Times and other MediaNews papers in the region, said it was able to avoid layoffs by giving buyouts to 107 of its employees.
At the Merc, 20 of the jobs lost were in the 173-person newsroom. Five newsroom workers accepted buyouts and 15 were laid off this morning. When MediaNews bought the paper, it had a newsroom of 242 people.
Editor David Butler also filled two vacancies today.
• Barbara J. Marshman, associate editor, will replace Stephen E. Wright as editorial page editor. She is the first woman to hold that job at the Merc.
• Deputy business editor Stephen R. Trousdale replaces Rebecca Salner as business editor.
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Friday Morning Media Links
- Printed Newspaper Industry has 3 to 5 Years to Live - On the Record
- Employers Slash 63,000 in February Feeding Recession Fears - AP
- News-Press, Union Negotiations Crawling Along - SB Independent
- Where Do Media Companies Go When They Die? - BDL Media
- New features editor at Los Angeles Times - Kevin Roderick
- You're hearing about our challenges? - Press-Telegram
- The Most Famous Newspaper Ever Issued - Todd And
- Herald-Leader Will Outsource Jobs Overseas - BizLex
- The Mercury News cut 50 jobs Today - Mercury News
- PiPress parent's credit crunch worsens - Minn Post
- Newspaper layoffs averted with buyouts - CC Times
- Palm Beach Post To Cut Staff - The Daily Pulp
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Of No Consequence: The Fictional Diaries of Margaret B. Jones
Dear Diary,
Call me Margaret.
It took me years but I wrote the book of dreams. For three years, I worked with my editor over the phone, talked to the agent, the PR people and finally... finally my book Love and Consequences is being published!!! Michiko Kakutani has given me a rave review in the NY Times. She called it "raw and tender." Of course, this makes me v.v. hot.
Book tour!! How long can I pass as Margaret B. Jones, raised on the streets of South Central LA? Part white, part native American? Which tribe? I found by picking an obscure one, no one bothers to ask twice. At least, it worked with the lady on NPR.
Am figuring out how long I have to keep the southern accent gleaned from watching reruns of The Jeffersons, Good Times and Sanford and Son. Listened to my interview on NPR. The longer I talk, the thicker my accent becomes. Would Margaret keep those inflections that long? Or would she sound more like that lady on NPR? Maybe I'll tone it down. Interview went well. As I told her, I might have combined some people, but everything is true.
Read the rest of this satirical piece at
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Call me Margaret.
It took me years but I wrote the book of dreams. For three years, I worked with my editor over the phone, talked to the agent, the PR people and finally... finally my book Love and Consequences is being published!!! Michiko Kakutani has given me a rave review in the NY Times. She called it "raw and tender." Of course, this makes me v.v. hot.Book tour!! How long can I pass as Margaret B. Jones, raised on the streets of South Central LA? Part white, part native American? Which tribe? I found by picking an obscure one, no one bothers to ask twice. At least, it worked with the lady on NPR.
Am figuring out how long I have to keep the southern accent gleaned from watching reruns of The Jeffersons, Good Times and Sanford and Son. Listened to my interview on NPR. The longer I talk, the thicker my accent becomes. Would Margaret keep those inflections that long? Or would she sound more like that lady on NPR? Maybe I'll tone it down. Interview went well. As I told her, I might have combined some people, but everything is true.
Read the rest of this satirical piece at
Get Lost With Easy-Writer
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Thirty-one Pressmen Axed at Los Angeles Times
Over the next few weeks the exact number of pressroom employees leaving the Los Angeles Times Orange County and Olympic Production Facilities will be clarified. According to the Negotiating Committee the Times will be shedding thirty-one pressroom employees, with six leaving the Olympic Facility, and twenty-five axed at the Times Orange County Facility.
Four of the employees from the Orange County Plant are utility workers in the pressroom, with the last of the Chandler Family (Phillip Chandler) among them.
The twenty-seven pressperson positions eliminated represents a ten percent cut in staffing at the two Times Plants, with the Orange County plant taking the largest hit. The employees receiving pink slips have the lowest seniority, based on pressroom seniority, not company seniority.
The atmosphere in the Times Olympic Pressroom is a somber one, with employees attempting to comfort one another.
Over the next few weeks the exact number of pressroom employees leaving the Los Angeles Times Orange County and Olympic Production Facilities will be clarified. According to the Negotiating Committee the Times will be shedding thirty-one pressroom employees, with six leaving the Olympic Facility, and twenty-five axed at the Times Orange County Facility.
Four of the employees from the Orange County Plant are utility workers in the pressroom, with the last of the Chandler Family (Phillip Chandler) among them.
The twenty-seven pressperson positions eliminated represents a ten percent cut in staffing at the two Times Plants, with the Orange County plant taking the largest hit. The employees receiving pink slips have the lowest seniority, based on pressroom seniority, not company seniority.
The atmosphere in the Times Olympic Pressroom is a somber one, with employees attempting to comfort one another.
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
Thursday Morning News
Olympic Facility Employees Donna & Tony Hill
- Company used waterboarding to motivate workers - Salt Lake Tribune
- Village Voice Media loses in San Francisco - Kevin Roderick
- Nice of you to kick the LA Times while it's down - Mayrav Saar
- Many Distinguished Staffers Take LAT Buyout - Ken Reich
- Insensitive Headline for a Blog Entry - Rahnesha White
- Sam Zell - Evil Genius? - The Outfit
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
In Memory of Kevin Riley Clawson
Last August after my son Bryan was killed many people from all walks of life contacted me with similar stories of their losses, or for support during my trying times of learning to live without my son. One person in particular was Jane Clawson, from New Jersey; she offered condolences and prayers, and even attempted to make contact with Kat Von D so she could ink me with a tattoo of my son.
I like to believe we meet others for a reason, not just by chance, and many times we never learn why others come into our lives. Jane Clawson and I met for a reason, and the reason why became clear last week.
Last Thursday I received a call while at work from Jane, she was sobbing as she told me her son was killed the night before. As my eyes filled with tears, knowing what Jane, her husband David and children were going through, I felt helpless and was at a loss for words of comfort to give Jane at that very moment. So I allowed my friend to speak as long as she was able before saying goodbye.
Jane and I will continue communicating as time goes by, and this is in tribute of her son Kevin.
BY MARK MUELLER
Star-Ledger Staff
For the last three years, Kevin Clawson made it his mission to help care for his father, terminally ill with heart disease and the victim of two strokes.
The 13-year-old Freehold Township boy gave his dad back rubs and pep talks, staying by his side when David Clawson felt too weak to rise.
Through part of that time, the teen had his own support system in 12-year-old Graeme Preston, a classmate, fellow skateboarding buff and all-around good friend.
"Kevin's been having a hard time because his dad's been so ill, and Graeme wanted to be his support," said Kevin's mother, Jane Clawson. "Graeme told him he would always be there for him."
Yesterday, the community was mourning both boys, who were hit by a minivan at dusk Wednesday as they returned home from a friend's house.
Kevin, who celebrated his 13th birthday on Sunday, was killed instantly. Graeme died Thursday afternoon. Both were seventh-graders at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School.
Jane Clawson, who is friends with the Preston family, said Graeme donated his organs, a gesture she called in keeping with the boy's eagerness to help others.
"Kevin would have been proud of Graeme," she said.
The accident happened just after 6 p.m. Wednesday on Bar Harbor Road, a residential street less than a mile from the Clawson home on Koenig Lane, where Graeme's mother, Anne Preston, waited to pick him up.
The driver of the minivan that hit Kevin and Graeme has not been charged. Police said the man, 84-year-old Frederick Eckhardt of Freehold Borough, was driving within the posted speed limit of 35 mph and was not under the influence of alcohol. The deaths have been classified an accident.
Jane Clawson said witnesses to the accident have told her both boys were walking at the time, skateboards in hand, and were struck as they crossed the street. The pair checked one direction but failed to look the other way as they walked out from behind a parked pickup truck, she said she was told.
"Sometimes when kids are in a group, they don't pay attention," she said, tears in her eyes. "It was a pure accident."
At the scene of the crash yesterday, 12- and 13-year-old friends of the boys taped posters and cards to a telephone pole. Balloons fluttered in the cold breeze. On the ground, scores of roses and carnations formed a 2-foot pile.
A broken skateboard, a tribute to Kevin's propensity for splitting his boards in half during jumps, lay on the ground amid scattered skateboard wheels signed by friends.
Kevin, the youngest of five siblings, spoke of one day becoming an Air Force pilot and hoped to join the ROTC program. Family members said he had started a skateboarding website and, in hopes of making some money from it, had been cold-calling companies that sell skateboards and apparel to advertise on it.
He found a kindred soul in Graeme, smaller and less certain on a skateboard but no less determined.
"Graeme was the toughest kid I ever met," said Anthony Viscuso, 12, a friend from school. "He would get hurt, cut his knee right open, and start laughing about it."
Like Kevin, Graeme was outgoing and quick to smile, whether in the hallways at school or out around town, the friends said.
"Every time you saw him, he just put a smile on your face," said Brittany Cannarozzi, 13, who left flowers and a card at the streetside memorial. "If you were down, he could make you feel better. He was just that kind of kid."
Graeme's family could not be reached yesterday, and a neighbor declined to comment, saying only that the 12-year-old was a "great kid."
Mark Mueller may be reached at mmueller@starledger.com
Last August after my son Bryan was killed many people from all walks of life contacted me with similar stories of their losses, or for support during my trying times of learning to live without my son. One person in particular was Jane Clawson, from New Jersey; she offered condolences and prayers, and even attempted to make contact with Kat Von D so she could ink me with a tattoo of my son.I like to believe we meet others for a reason, not just by chance, and many times we never learn why others come into our lives. Jane Clawson and I met for a reason, and the reason why became clear last week.
Last Thursday I received a call while at work from Jane, she was sobbing as she told me her son was killed the night before. As my eyes filled with tears, knowing what Jane, her husband David and children were going through, I felt helpless and was at a loss for words of comfort to give Jane at that very moment. So I allowed my friend to speak as long as she was able before saying goodbye.
Jane and I will continue communicating as time goes by, and this is in tribute of her son Kevin.
BY MARK MUELLER
Star-Ledger Staff
For the last three years, Kevin Clawson made it his mission to help care for his father, terminally ill with heart disease and the victim of two strokes.
The 13-year-old Freehold Township boy gave his dad back rubs and pep talks, staying by his side when David Clawson felt too weak to rise.
Through part of that time, the teen had his own support system in 12-year-old Graeme Preston, a classmate, fellow skateboarding buff and all-around good friend.
"Kevin's been having a hard time because his dad's been so ill, and Graeme wanted to be his support," said Kevin's mother, Jane Clawson. "Graeme told him he would always be there for him."
Yesterday, the community was mourning both boys, who were hit by a minivan at dusk Wednesday as they returned home from a friend's house.
Kevin, who celebrated his 13th birthday on Sunday, was killed instantly. Graeme died Thursday afternoon. Both were seventh-graders at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School.
Jane Clawson, who is friends with the Preston family, said Graeme donated his organs, a gesture she called in keeping with the boy's eagerness to help others.
"Kevin would have been proud of Graeme," she said.
The accident happened just after 6 p.m. Wednesday on Bar Harbor Road, a residential street less than a mile from the Clawson home on Koenig Lane, where Graeme's mother, Anne Preston, waited to pick him up.
The driver of the minivan that hit Kevin and Graeme has not been charged. Police said the man, 84-year-old Frederick Eckhardt of Freehold Borough, was driving within the posted speed limit of 35 mph and was not under the influence of alcohol. The deaths have been classified an accident.
Jane Clawson said witnesses to the accident have told her both boys were walking at the time, skateboards in hand, and were struck as they crossed the street. The pair checked one direction but failed to look the other way as they walked out from behind a parked pickup truck, she said she was told.
"Sometimes when kids are in a group, they don't pay attention," she said, tears in her eyes. "It was a pure accident."
At the scene of the crash yesterday, 12- and 13-year-old friends of the boys taped posters and cards to a telephone pole. Balloons fluttered in the cold breeze. On the ground, scores of roses and carnations formed a 2-foot pile.
A broken skateboard, a tribute to Kevin's propensity for splitting his boards in half during jumps, lay on the ground amid scattered skateboard wheels signed by friends.
Kevin, the youngest of five siblings, spoke of one day becoming an Air Force pilot and hoped to join the ROTC program. Family members said he had started a skateboarding website and, in hopes of making some money from it, had been cold-calling companies that sell skateboards and apparel to advertise on it.
He found a kindred soul in Graeme, smaller and less certain on a skateboard but no less determined.
"Graeme was the toughest kid I ever met," said Anthony Viscuso, 12, a friend from school. "He would get hurt, cut his knee right open, and start laughing about it."
Like Kevin, Graeme was outgoing and quick to smile, whether in the hallways at school or out around town, the friends said.
"Every time you saw him, he just put a smile on your face," said Brittany Cannarozzi, 13, who left flowers and a card at the streetside memorial. "If you were down, he could make you feel better. He was just that kind of kid."
Graeme's family could not be reached yesterday, and a neighbor declined to comment, saying only that the 12-year-old was a "great kid."
Mark Mueller may be reached at mmueller@starledger.com
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LA Times / GCC/IBT Negotiations
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
After several meetings with the Times there has been very little in the way of making progress. The Times and their mouth piece continue to come to the bargaining table and claim they are negotiating in good faith and will continue to negotiate in good faith. Their definition of good faith bargaining is to reject the union proposals and suggest that their proposals are in line with the company’s direction and the need for flexibility.
On February 17th they claimed that they have to cut $1.8 million from the pressroom bargaining unit and wanted us to suggest how it was to be done. On March 3rd they told us that there would be 31 lay offs in the pressroom, 4 of which would be utility employees.
These layoffs are to be effective March 28th. The parties have made proposals for buy outs and at this point the Times last proposal was nothing more than an insult to its workers.
They have mandated that buy outs must be negotiated and accepted by March 13th or the lay offs will take place on March 28th and they will be done by seniority.
We, the committee feel it is time to have a meeting with all the bargaining unit employees and get your input regarding this issue as well as others.
Listed below are the date, time and place for this meeting. There will only be 1 meeting so we ask that you please attend this very important meeting to discuss our future.
Sunday March 9th 1:00 PM
GCC/IBT Local 404
518 West Duarte Road
Monrovia, CA. 91016
Sincerely and Fraternally,
THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
After several meetings with the Times there has been very little in the way of making progress. The Times and their mouth piece continue to come to the bargaining table and claim they are negotiating in good faith and will continue to negotiate in good faith. Their definition of good faith bargaining is to reject the union proposals and suggest that their proposals are in line with the company’s direction and the need for flexibility.
On February 17th they claimed that they have to cut $1.8 million from the pressroom bargaining unit and wanted us to suggest how it was to be done. On March 3rd they told us that there would be 31 lay offs in the pressroom, 4 of which would be utility employees.
These layoffs are to be effective March 28th. The parties have made proposals for buy outs and at this point the Times last proposal was nothing more than an insult to its workers.
They have mandated that buy outs must be negotiated and accepted by March 13th or the lay offs will take place on March 28th and they will be done by seniority.
We, the committee feel it is time to have a meeting with all the bargaining unit employees and get your input regarding this issue as well as others.
Listed below are the date, time and place for this meeting. There will only be 1 meeting so we ask that you please attend this very important meeting to discuss our future.
Sunday March 9th 1:00 PM
GCC/IBT Local 404
518 West Duarte Road
Monrovia, CA. 91016
Sincerely and Fraternally,
THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE
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Inspirational Word of the Month - March
VISION - power of seeing; foresight; anticipation; imagination.
By looking beyond boundaries we gain exciting new perspectives.
By looking beyond boundaries we gain exciting new perspectives.
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Writer Impossible: Blogosphere Reviews
"True criticism is a lot more than whether or not you like something."
Another late night. Time to peruse book reviews written by bloggers. I've found a mixed bag. Mostly what I've seen are people confusing a critique, an opinion (usually a recommendation), and a report. I know, I'm quibbling. But there is a difference. Especially since everything on the blogosphere is seen as a review.
Read the rest here:
Get Lost With Easy-Writer
Another late night. Time to peruse book reviews written by bloggers. I've found a mixed bag. Mostly what I've seen are people confusing a critique, an opinion (usually a recommendation), and a report. I know, I'm quibbling. But there is a difference. Especially since everything on the blogosphere is seen as a review.
Read the rest here:
Get Lost With Easy-Writer
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Wednesday Morning Linkage
Times Mirror Square 1975
- Struggling Newark Paper To Cut Unionized Jobs - New York Post
- Kansas Papers Sold to Oklahoma Chain - Editor & Publisher
- Will the LA Times Delete All the Old Staffers? - Kate Coe
- Sun Announces Closure Of Towson Office - CP Online
- RR Donnelley to acquire Pro Line Printing - DM News
- Moody's Places NYT Co. on Ratings Review - E&P
- At Wall Street Journal, Change of Accents - WP
- The News Becomes News - Stress-Telegram
- What Went Wrong With Journalism - Mego
- Hoy L.A. appoints new publisher - LAT
- East Coast Bias - Matt Welch
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
San Francisco Peninsula Press Club: Examiner switches focus to local Web sites
The expansion of the San Francisco Examiner into 70 other cities stopped in city No. 3 (Baltimore) back in 2006. It seems billionaire owner Phil Anschutz has put the brakes on the expansion of the Examiner brand.
But last week, the Examiner's parent company, Clarity Media Group of Denver, announced it had hired former AOL executive Michael Sherrod to run its Internet operations. David Schafer, who had been CEO of Examiner.com, was pushed aside to the job of Chief Operating Officer of Clarity Digital Group in order to make way for Schafer.
Now LA Observed notes that Examiner.com has posted an ad at Monster.com for "city editors" in 59 cities to post stories to local sites:
Looks like Anschutz, who orginally had set his sights on being a print barron, has switched to the Internet.
The expansion of the San Francisco Examiner into 70 other cities stopped in city No. 3 (Baltimore) back in 2006. It seems billionaire owner Phil Anschutz has put the brakes on the expansion of the Examiner brand.
But last week, the Examiner's parent company, Clarity Media Group of Denver, announced it had hired former AOL executive Michael Sherrod to run its Internet operations. David Schafer, who had been CEO of Examiner.com, was pushed aside to the job of Chief Operating Officer of Clarity Digital Group in order to make way for Schafer.
Now LA Observed notes that Examiner.com has posted an ad at Monster.com for "city editors" in 59 cities to post stories to local sites:
City Editors will build Examiner.com by recruiting and managing a team of local content contributors. Candidates should have an established local network within the community and be able to demonstrate their strong local ties.
Looks like Anschutz, who orginally had set his sights on being a print barron, has switched to the Internet.
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Darrell Kunitomi Leaving the Los Angeles Times
With the current buyout in full force at the Los Angeles Times, rumors of colleagues leaving the newspaper are heard throughout the company. Last week I heard our favorite, and only remaining tour guide, Darrell Kunitomi would be leaving the company at the end of March. And unfortunately, this rumor proved to be true.
I met Darrel over three decades ago at Times Mirror Square, and our paths have crossed many times in all those years, always with a smile and a cheerful word. We will certainly miss the weekly visits from Darrell and his group of tourist tagging along his side.
For an updated list of thirty editorial department employees leaving the Los Angeles Times, compiled by Kevin Roderick, click here.
With the current buyout in full force at the Los Angeles Times, rumors of colleagues leaving the newspaper are heard throughout the company. Last week I heard our favorite, and only remaining tour guide, Darrell Kunitomi would be leaving the company at the end of March. And unfortunately, this rumor proved to be true.
I met Darrel over three decades ago at Times Mirror Square, and our paths have crossed many times in all those years, always with a smile and a cheerful word. We will certainly miss the weekly visits from Darrell and his group of tourist tagging along his side.
For an updated list of thirty editorial department employees leaving the Los Angeles Times, compiled by Kevin Roderick, click here.
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Real Solution
Well, I am officially tired of hearing both sides complain about the problem we have with revenue. One side says it's the lazy union, the other side blames management. Well how about put up or shut up? Lets all take a pay cut and save the company real money. I will not accept anything under $25 per hr. I'm not privileged to know how much everyone makes, but for some reason $35 per Hr sounds like the going rate. Given how much money everyone in Operations makes I would think that we can save plenty of money. If we have 300 employees making more than 35 per hr, then our savings could be close to 6 million dollars per year!!!!!. Wow, can you imagine, the possibilities, and we would not need layoffs. The catch is that even Upper management has to take the same pay as the rest of us in operation's. I only wonder if our Sr. Leaders would be able to live on such meager wages. I'm game! Are you? Now that would be a real UNION!
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Missing Pool Table at Times Mirror Square
On February 8th, 2008 I wrote about three pool tables delivered to three different Los Angeles Times locations in error. I said pool tables were delivered to Times Mirror Square, the production facilities at Olympic and Orange County. When in fact the tables were only sent to the production plants at California Community News, LA Times Olympic Facility, and the LA Times Orange County production facility.
Editorial Pages Aide, Nico Smedley wrote “Pool table at Times Mirror Square?, I read this a while back, and am wondering if you could tell me where I can find a pool table in the building here!?
Haha, thanks Ed,“
Sorry for my error Nico, maybe Sam will rectify this for everyone at the Square?
On February 8th, 2008 I wrote about three pool tables delivered to three different Los Angeles Times locations in error. I said pool tables were delivered to Times Mirror Square, the production facilities at Olympic and Orange County. When in fact the tables were only sent to the production plants at California Community News, LA Times Olympic Facility, and the LA Times Orange County production facility.Editorial Pages Aide, Nico Smedley wrote “Pool table at Times Mirror Square?, I read this a while back, and am wondering if you could tell me where I can find a pool table in the building here!?
Haha, thanks Ed,“
Sorry for my error Nico, maybe Sam will rectify this for everyone at the Square?
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Tuesday Morning Linkage
Buyout Victim 2006, Gabe Rodriquez
- Two Views of Sam Zell - Mayrav Saar
- LAT Web Traffic Breaks 100 Million - Kate Coe
- Buyout papers in at the Times - Kevin Roderick
- We're messing with TV Week - again - Knox News
- When Journalists Aren't Happy, the Industry Isn't Happy - E&P
- I am the wrestling champion of Tribune Company - Matt Maldre
- Alumni of the late Los Angeles Herald Examiner - Kevin Roderick
- Four Tribune Company papers to narrow web width - Editors Weblog
- The New Workplace Rules: No Video-Watching - Wall Street Journal
- Star-Ledger is planning to consolidate its two printing plants - Star-Ledger
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$4 a Gallon Gasoline Coming Soon
The newspaper business is not alone in their financial woes as the economy heads south; small businesses are experiencing a drop in revenue as consumers hold onto their dollars. As the United States dollar continues its devaluation, prices rise as wages remain stagnate, which causes many to make adjustments to their spending habits.
Case in point; the San Dimas Valero gas station has experienced a drop in business, according to the owner. Many of the regular customers that had simple work preformed on their cars, such as oil and filter changes, are doing it themselves. Just two months ago, the stalls of the garage at the gas station were overflowing with cars in need of repairs, with only a few cars waiting for service today.
The San Dimas Cast & Cleaver Restaurant has seen such a large drop in income they have resorted to bringing in live bands, to increase alcohol sales as a way of compenstaing for their loss of revenue, on weekends.
A friend working at the West Covina Romano’s Macaroni Grill was given a two-week notice last Saturday, because the restaurant will be closing their doors. My friend also added that nineteen other of the chains restaurants would be ending business within two weeks.
Yet we are given information from our government leaders that we are not in a recession, certainly looks like a recession to me, but what do I know?
The newspaper business is not alone in their financial woes as the economy heads south; small businesses are experiencing a drop in revenue as consumers hold onto their dollars. As the United States dollar continues its devaluation, prices rise as wages remain stagnate, which causes many to make adjustments to their spending habits.
Case in point; the San Dimas Valero gas station has experienced a drop in business, according to the owner. Many of the regular customers that had simple work preformed on their cars, such as oil and filter changes, are doing it themselves. Just two months ago, the stalls of the garage at the gas station were overflowing with cars in need of repairs, with only a few cars waiting for service today.
The San Dimas Cast & Cleaver Restaurant has seen such a large drop in income they have resorted to bringing in live bands, to increase alcohol sales as a way of compenstaing for their loss of revenue, on weekends.
A friend working at the West Covina Romano’s Macaroni Grill was given a two-week notice last Saturday, because the restaurant will be closing their doors. My friend also added that nineteen other of the chains restaurants would be ending business within two weeks.
Yet we are given information from our government leaders that we are not in a recession, certainly looks like a recession to me, but what do I know?
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Pasadena Campaign Finance Information: Bill Bogaard by Zip Code
By Centinel March 3, 2008
Several weeks ago, reader AA initiated a collaboration with the blog. The goal was to highlight areas of city government that are transparent in theory, but in practice, thanks to the information cost, are completely opaque. The aim was to find a topic that we thought should easily accessible to the average idiot, namely local campaign finance. We looked around and quickly found a pair of idiots, reader AA and myself.
The test was simple. We asked for a list of all the donors to all the campaigns in the last election cycle for city council and mayor in Pasadena. I expected that we’d be emailed a link to the relevant file or have a PDF fired back to us with the info. Boy, was I wrong.
The city clerk’s office was courteous and helpful. Unfortunately, they helpfully copied hundreds of pages of Form 460s. The forms were filled in by hand, wildly varied in their completeness, scrawled in degrees of illegibility. There was no way to quickly browse the information, to do any kind of meaningful comparison. To actually search for a donor’s name required you flip every single page of every single candidate’s forms.
This may have been a cutting edge way of doing things back when quills were the premier data entry technology, but it doesn’t pass muster in a digital age. Hell, none of the forms had even been typed in (on, you know, a typewriter), leaving countless names and occupations inscrutable. To my knowledge, a single candidate, Steve Madison, was kind enough to have a front page that listed all his donors and relevant info up front, neatly typed and easily scanned (well done, Steve).
By the time we were finished digitizing this information, it had cost us over a dozen hours, which equates to hundreds of dollars of lost productivity between us. The end result was a functional database of all donors to the most recent city council campaign, but the cost was completely unreasonable. Even more galling, there is absolutely no reason for the system to be this way: the software exists for candidates to file these forms electronically (and is in use in nearby Los Angeles) and avoid this process entirely.
Over the coming week, we’ll be posting some of the highlights of our civic exercise (known unofficially as the “cam-pain-in-the-neck finance project”). Below is the first treat: a breakdown of all Mayor Bill Bogaard’s donors by zip code. Feel free to point out any interesting bits and pieces in the comments. Also, you can play with the full data set over at Many Eyes.
I’ll be the first to admit that we may have made some missteps and there may have been an easier way to do this. We just couldn’t find it. And two reasonably competent interested citizens couldn’t find it, then the information is too hard to find.
UPDATE: Note that you can play with a lot more information in this visualization if you muck about with the tabs at the bottom of the image.
Click here to view the visualization.
By Centinel March 3, 2008
Several weeks ago, reader AA initiated a collaboration with the blog. The goal was to highlight areas of city government that are transparent in theory, but in practice, thanks to the information cost, are completely opaque. The aim was to find a topic that we thought should easily accessible to the average idiot, namely local campaign finance. We looked around and quickly found a pair of idiots, reader AA and myself.
The test was simple. We asked for a list of all the donors to all the campaigns in the last election cycle for city council and mayor in Pasadena. I expected that we’d be emailed a link to the relevant file or have a PDF fired back to us with the info. Boy, was I wrong.
The city clerk’s office was courteous and helpful. Unfortunately, they helpfully copied hundreds of pages of Form 460s. The forms were filled in by hand, wildly varied in their completeness, scrawled in degrees of illegibility. There was no way to quickly browse the information, to do any kind of meaningful comparison. To actually search for a donor’s name required you flip every single page of every single candidate’s forms.
This may have been a cutting edge way of doing things back when quills were the premier data entry technology, but it doesn’t pass muster in a digital age. Hell, none of the forms had even been typed in (on, you know, a typewriter), leaving countless names and occupations inscrutable. To my knowledge, a single candidate, Steve Madison, was kind enough to have a front page that listed all his donors and relevant info up front, neatly typed and easily scanned (well done, Steve).
By the time we were finished digitizing this information, it had cost us over a dozen hours, which equates to hundreds of dollars of lost productivity between us. The end result was a functional database of all donors to the most recent city council campaign, but the cost was completely unreasonable. Even more galling, there is absolutely no reason for the system to be this way: the software exists for candidates to file these forms electronically (and is in use in nearby Los Angeles) and avoid this process entirely.
Over the coming week, we’ll be posting some of the highlights of our civic exercise (known unofficially as the “cam-pain-in-the-neck finance project”). Below is the first treat: a breakdown of all Mayor Bill Bogaard’s donors by zip code. Feel free to point out any interesting bits and pieces in the comments. Also, you can play with the full data set over at Many Eyes.
I’ll be the first to admit that we may have made some missteps and there may have been an easier way to do this. We just couldn’t find it. And two reasonably competent interested citizens couldn’t find it, then the information is too hard to find.
UPDATE: Note that you can play with a lot more information in this visualization if you muck about with the tabs at the bottom of the image.
Click here to view the visualization.
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Book Recommendation: Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff is precisely the type of book you're thankful Costco carries, so that it can be purchased by the masses. This honest and well written account of his son Nic's meth and alcohol addiction is one that all parents should read.
Thousands of families struggle secretly, not sharing this all consuming tragedy with anyone. Whether it's anorexia, bipolar, substance abuse and extreme behavior problems, parents who cope share many of the same feelings. Despair, the long term effects of living with irrationality, anger and grief. If for any other reason to read this book, it's to know that you are not alone.
Read the rest at: Get Lost With Easy-Writer
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff is precisely the type of book you're thankful Costco carries, so that it can be purchased by the masses. This honest and well written account of his son Nic's meth and alcohol addiction is one that all parents should read.
Thousands of families struggle secretly, not sharing this all consuming tragedy with anyone. Whether it's anorexia, bipolar, substance abuse and extreme behavior problems, parents who cope share many of the same feelings. Despair, the long term effects of living with irrationality, anger and grief. If for any other reason to read this book, it's to know that you are not alone.
Read the rest at: Get Lost With Easy-Writer
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Having a Bad Day?
I wouldn't recommend this as a remedy.
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Monday Morning News
The Oldest Working Pressman, Larry Brush
- February was a tough month in the newspaper industry - SFV Business
- Chinese-language paper ordered to pay for labor violations - LAT
- Long Beach Mr. Press-Telegram whiffs - Kevin Roderick
- Internal rifts widen at the New York Times - Portfolio
- Virtual Toast to Our Colleagues - The Paper Trail
- What to Do After Being Laid Off - Colleen Eddy
- Behind the Byline - The Stress-Telegram
- Front Page News - Cleveland Magazine
- LAT In 90 Seconds - Mayrav Saar
- Zell Hell - Social Media Today
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The time to act is now
When I first started working on Obama's campaign, I asked you to make a donation for the cause. I am very excited and proud about raising over $1100.00 to date. Maybe you were too busy, maybe you didn't have any extra money, or maybe as many did, you didn't think Barack Obama had a chance at becoming our next president. I hope by now you realize that getting Obama elected into the White House isn't some whimsical fantasy, it is something that is very much obtainable. So once again, I am asking for your help. You don't have to donate much, sometimes I go online and donate $10 or $20, whatever I can spare.
As Americans, we dream of a President who is honest, personable, intelligent, and wise.
We want a leader with courage and integrity who has known the struggles of an everyday American. A lot of people have stopped believing that may even be possible.
I haven't stopped believing. I have supported Barack Obama since he announced his candidacy because he is that leader.
Join me in supporting Barack by making a donation to my personal fundraising page: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/kathrynwatts
This campaign for the presidency is unparalleled in history. Our need for an honest, fresh-thinking leader could not be more urgent. Americans are hungry for change and Barack Obama will bring that change when he is elected.
Please take a minute to check out my page and make a donation of any size:
Thanks,
Kathryn Watts
When I first started working on Obama's campaign, I asked you to make a donation for the cause. I am very excited and proud about raising over $1100.00 to date. Maybe you were too busy, maybe you didn't have any extra money, or maybe as many did, you didn't think Barack Obama had a chance at becoming our next president. I hope by now you realize that getting Obama elected into the White House isn't some whimsical fantasy, it is something that is very much obtainable. So once again, I am asking for your help. You don't have to donate much, sometimes I go online and donate $10 or $20, whatever I can spare.
As Americans, we dream of a President who is honest, personable, intelligent, and wise.
We want a leader with courage and integrity who has known the struggles of an everyday American. A lot of people have stopped believing that may even be possible.
I haven't stopped believing. I have supported Barack Obama since he announced his candidacy because he is that leader.
Join me in supporting Barack by making a donation to my personal fundraising page: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/kathrynwatts
This campaign for the presidency is unparalleled in history. Our need for an honest, fresh-thinking leader could not be more urgent. Americans are hungry for change and Barack Obama will bring that change when he is elected.
Please take a minute to check out my page and make a donation of any size:
Thanks,
Kathryn Watts
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
Saturday Morning News Briefs
Printing Press Roller with Rubber Failure
- The Times better change - Jeff Jarvis
- Glossing over bloodbath - Mark Lacter
- Whacked by MediaNews Ax - The Stress-Telegram
- Press-Telegram essentially merged - Kevin Roderick
- 'NYT' Expands Printing to Philadelphia Area Plant - E&P
- Tracy Press cuts newspaper service to 2 days a week - TMH
- New York Times Jan. Revenue Declines - Associated Press
- Los Angeles Times and The Newspaper Guild - Tribune Watch
- 'Boston Globe,' 'Telegram & Gazette' Cut Staff - Editor & Publisher
- What TV Ads Will People Watch When They Don't Have to? - Ad Age
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