Media Matters

Businesses that run on ad revenue are really hurting. Old media. New media. No difference.

My editor emailed earlier today. Tough quarter. Would I be willing to blog for them a little less? Sure.

I feel bad. Businesses that run on ad revenue are really hurting. Old media. New media. No difference.

Two editors left the Courant today. One jumped, the other was pushed. The one who left on his own volition said he couldn’t do what they wanted him to do. It’s good to be principled–and costly.

The Courant and WTIC are consolidating news operations. I’m not sure if that was part of the now-former editor’s decision, though it sounds feasible. Even though the FCC has tried to get the Tribune Company to own one or the other (not both) for years they will combine. Chutzpah.

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  1. Geoff,

    Times are certainly tough for everyone in the media, but it seems they’re even worse for those working in traditional mediums. I write for a fairly popular winter sports website, and I spent time a few weeks ago talking with a Boston Globe correspondent who wanted to know as much as possible about my online gig. The Boston Globe! Even as recently as two years ago, I would have done anything to be able to write for a paper as venerable as The Globe…now, many Globe reporters are willing to do anything to get as far away as possible with their 401(k)’s and sanity intact.

    It’s sad…at the age of 28, I’m one of the few people my age I know that still reads a newspaper in physical form on a daily basis.

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