WYES’s Informed Sources focuses on Times-Picayune developments
Tonight’s broadcast of WYES’s Informed Sources “will examine the changes in journalism print, internet and other media and why New Orleans has reacted so strongly to the T-P’s changes” and “will also...
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And now for a geography lesson from NOLA.com
Is anyone at NOLA Media Group paying attention to what gets posted where on NOLA.com? Okay, I admit it. I tried to deal with my withdrawal symptoms by going to NOLA.com for today’s news. Living as I do...
View ArticleAnd the winner is … Television!
As the newspaper war gets off to a fitful start, a new LSU study concludes that 76% of New Orleans area residents will turn to television as their future source for local news now that the T-P has gone...
View ArticleI ain’t got rhythm
Two-thirds of the way into the first cycle of the three-day-a-week Times-Picayune, I’ve realized what I dislike about it the most: It’s not rhythmic. Like the rising and setting of the sun or the meter...
View ArticleDelays and sloppy editing from web to print result in Picayune gaffe
The following Correction appeared in today’s paper (Wednesday, 10/10/12): Wrong day for dedication Mass: A story in Sunday’s Metro section about the dedication of Xavier University’s new St. Katharine...
View ArticleIs the Times-Picayune brand being killed off?
One of the oldest and most revered brand names in the newspaper business is in jeopardy of being killed off by Advance Publications’ newly installed management. Ask anyone in the NOLA Media Group...
View ArticleWhat the Nagin indictment demonstrates
Everybody in the world knows by now that former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin was indicted yesterday, but you wouldn’t know it if your only news source was the Times-Picayune. By the time it arrives at...
View ArticleMemo to NOLA Media Group: Start worrying. Seriously.
New Orleans multimillionaire businessman John Georges has signed a letter of intent to purchase The Advocate from the Manship family interests in Baton Rouge, according to a report published by The...
View ArticleThe Picayune rushes to fill its publishing gaps
In an apparent preemptive attempt to stave off the competitive threat that will grow exponentially when New Orleans businessman John Georges completes his acquisition of The Advocate this summer, NOLA...
View ArticleThe Advocate lures more Pulitzer winners away from the Picayune
John Georges is not wasting any time. Four more key Times-Picayune reporters and editors, including two more Pulitzer Prize winners, have left the Picayune for The Advocate. The moves were announced in...
View ArticleA name change for The Advocate New Orleans Edition?
Buried in today’s announcement by The Advocate that it had hired four more key editors and reporters away from the Times-Picayune were two references to “the New Orleans Advocate”. The “t” in “the” was...
View ArticleEvisceration continues with James Gill excision
This is getting serious (or funny, depending on how you look at it). The Picayune’s long-time satirical columnist James Gill has signed on with The Advocate, according to a May 13 announcement in that...
View ArticleWhat a daily Picayune will cost you now
As a refresher: We used to be able to get home delivery of the Times-Picayune seven days a week for $18.95 per month. Then they cut back to three days a week, for $16.95 per month (an 87% increase)...
View ArticleIt all started one year ago today …
… when the Times-Picayune announced it was moving to a “digital first” strategy and cutting its print edition back to three days a week after being outed the night before by the New York Times. To mark...
View ArticleDissembling the truth
Dissemble: to conceal the truth, facts, or real emotions behind false or misleading pretenses Why is it that failing institutions try to disguise what’s really happening with “misleading pretenses”?...
View ArticleHow refreshing! A newspaper that actually listens to its community
While the Times-Picayune is bent on giving New Orleans readers exactly what they do not want, The Advocate has announced the establishment of a six-member advisory panel of prominent New Orleanians to...
View ArticleSomething we don’t have to worry about
Paywalls. When the Washington Post announced today that its website would soon be totally accessible only to paying subscribers, it joined a list of major newspapers, including the New York Times and...
View ArticleAdvocate adding 500 new subscribers a week
The Advocate is adding readers at a rate that could more than double its New Orleans subscriber base in a year’s time. Publisher John Georges appeared at a New Orleans City Council meeting today and...
View ArticleChip Chip Chip
That’s the sound of The Advocate continuing to chip away at the Times-Picayune’s dominance of the New Orleans market. Yesterday brought the following announcements: Jeff Adelson has left the...
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TPStreet: “Tabloid” sums it up nicely
The front page of today’s inaugural issue of TPStreet fits right into the “tabloid” genre: The inaugural issue of TPStreet If this issue is any indication of what we can expect in the days and weeks...
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