March 9, 2010
- The entry period for the 15th Annual EPpy Awards, which honor the best Web sites presented by media-affiliated companies, has been extended to midnight on March 31. Entries are accepted online only, via the EPpy Awards Web site, www.eppyawards.com.
... - The San Francisco Bay Guardian won another victory against the SF Weekly on Tuesday when a Superior Court ruled the Guardian is entitled to half of the advertising revenue of its cross-town rival. Under this most recent ruling, the Guardian can collect roughly $200,000 a month beginning in March.
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- For E&P's February issue, Senior Editor Jennifer Saba spoke with both sides and some attorneys in the battle between the San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly. "If you are a creditor, you would like them to come to the table," said Jay D. Adkisson, an attorney with Riser Adkisson retained by the Bay Guardian. "If you have to pry it from their cold dead hands, than it's your job to make sure they are dead and cold as quickly as possible."
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- The Flint Journal is bringing back a Tuesday print edition, less than a year after cutting back from seven days a week to three days a week.
- The Washington Post says more than two dozen people have canceled their subscriptions over a photo of two men kissing that ran on the front page.
- A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Capital Times newspaper that claimed Gov. Jim Doyle's office improperly delayed the release of public records.
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt is set to deliver the opening keynote speech during the American Society of News Editors' (ASNE) annual conference next month.
- Moody's Investors Service said Wednesday that it has lifted its rating on The New York Times Co. on its expectation that revenue declines will slow as the economy recovers.
March 8, 2010
- Perhaps we really shouldn't be surprised that Elinor Burkett is a former newsroom employee.
- The Daily Press of Newport News, Va., is outsourcing some of its copy editing and production functions to its sister paper, the Chicago Tribune. Daily Press President Digby Solomon told E&P he expects the move to impact about 15% of the newsroom staff, and will save the paper roughly $1 million.
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