http://www.mediaworkers.org Representing media employees in California Copyright 2009 California Media Workers Guild en-us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:53:26 -0400 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:53:26 -0400 http://www.sjguild.org/rss/jpg/Norcal.jpg http://www.mediaworkers.org 140 55 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/McClatchy-2Q-earnings-plunge-apf-4153383502.html?x=0 McClatchy Co.’s second-quarter earnings plunged as the newspaper publisher shouldered higher costs on its debt to buy more time to recover from a bedeviling ad slump. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/McClatchy-2Q-earnings-plunge-apf-4153383502.html?x=0 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/thomson-reuters-q2-profit-slips-8-62148-.aspx News and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp. said Thursday its second-quarter net income fell 8% on weakness in its legal and markets divisions. The company is still recovering from last year’s economic downturn, which put a crimp in budgets at many of the law firms and financial institutions that it counts as customers. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/thomson-reuters-q2-profit-slips-8-62148-.aspx http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/study-newspapers-sink-below-internet-and-tv-as-information-sources-62127-.aspx Newspapers continue to be seen as less important at their primary job — being sources of information — according to the latest edition of the nine-year-old Digital Future Project from the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/study-newspapers-sink-below-internet-and-tv-as-information-sources-62127-.aspx http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=187619 WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange has figured out that on the Internet, being homeless means you don’t have to play by anybody’s rules. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=187619 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/stockton-record-says-paywall-a-success-so-far-62122-.aspx The Record figured it would lose half its viewership online and unique users, but has lost just between 30 and 35% of its page views and only a quarter of its unique users. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/stockton-record-says-paywall-a-success-so-far-62122-.aspx http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/zell's-not-the-bad-guy-in-tribune-co-'s-collapse-62120-.aspx The exhaustive report of the independent examiner in Tribune Co.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case doesn’t name names when it charges the 2007 going-private deal may very well have been a "fraudulent conveyance," that is, so overloaded with debt that the Chicago media giant was insolvent from day one. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/zell's-not-the-bad-guy-in-tribune-co-'s-collapse-62120-.aspx http://newsonomics.com/news-flash-circulation-up-1042/ Wow. If the multi-platform strategy — newspapers, online editions, replica e-editions, iPad editions, smartphone editions, holographic ones to come — works, we’ll see circulation reports unlike those ever reported. That’s because ABC, the industry’s Audit Bureau of Circulations, has loosened its counting standards yet again. http://newsonomics.com/news-flash-circulation-up-1042/ http://www.mediaworkers.org/index.php?ID=7582 http://www.mediaworkers.org/index.php?ID=7582 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/'update-circ-accounts-for-nearly-30-of-total-revenue-at-'dallas-morning-news'-parent-a-h-belo-62097-.aspx Circ is really pulling its weight at A.H. Belo Corp. In a conference call with analysts Monday afternoon, Belo executives said revenue from circulation now accounts for 29.2% of total revenue, principally a result of higher subscription prices at its flagship Dallas Morning News. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/'update-circ-accounts-for-nearly-30-of-total-revenue-at-'dallas-morning-news'-parent-a-h-belo-62097-.aspx http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/judge-to-conrad-black-no-canada-for-you-62095-.aspx A federal judge ordered Conrad Black to surrender his passport Friday, meaning the former media mogul can’t return to his home in Canada now that he’s free on $2 million bond. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/judge-to-conrad-black-no-canada-for-you-62095-.aspx