Shaw Suburban Media, a division of Shaw Newspapers, and Paddock Publications announced today that Paddock will begin printing Shaw newspapers at its production facility in Schaumburg, Ill., reports NewsandTech.com.

Thirty-one employees are affected. Some will be interviewed for new positions, others w…

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The Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore., announced yesterday that it had laid off nine full-time and five part-time employees. Publisher Tony Baker also said that five other open positions will not be filled for now.

The job eliminations occurred in all operating departments. The majority of the affected p… Read full post »

The Oregonian announced today the layoffs of 37 employees. The Portland-based newspaper said that the majority are in the news department, with smaller numbers in advertising, circulation and accounting. Affected staff members were notified this morning.

The layoffs had been expected, and are part of…

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Sales of new single-family houses in January 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This is 11.2 percent below the revised December rate of 348,000 and is 6.…

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The Senate conducted this debate on its filibuster rules in 2005. It's the same debate it is having now, but the players have switched sides:

The Washington Post Co. today reported net income of $91.2 million ($9.78 per share) for the fiscal year ended Jan. 3, up from $65.8 million ($6.87 per share) for the fiscal year ended Dec. 28, 2008.

Net income for the fourth quarter of 2009 was $82.2 million ($8.71 per share), up…

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It's not a newspaper-related jobs cut, but it's pretty big.

ABC News is ready to cut its news division by as much as 20 percent -- or 300 jobs -- and radically reorder the network’s traditional approach to news gathering, the Los Angeles Times reported today.

The Times, citing multiple unnamed source…

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The E.W. Scripps Co. reported operating today that consolidated revenues were $217 million, an 18 percent decrease from $265 million in the fourth quarter of 2008. Compared with the third quarter, the year-over-year rate of revenue decline in the fourth quarter improved for both the television and ne…

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Militants from the Al-Qaeda-allied insurgent group Al-Shabaab abducted a reporter in Somalia on Sunday, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported yesterday.

Ali Yussuf Adan, a reporter with the Somaliweyn Media Center, a private broadcaster, in the town of Wanlaweyn, northwest of the capital Mogad…

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MaineMedia Today will conduct another round of layoffs next month, Al Diamon wrote on a blog posting on DownEast.com this morning.

The newspaper group includes the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal

Diamon writes:

The company announced the impending cuts… Read full post »

Since the advent of the Internet age in 2001, about 105,000 people have lost their jobs in the U.S. newspaper industry, writes Erik Sass of MediaPost Publications. This represents at 25 percent drop over that period of time as the government reports that 309,000 people were employed by newspapers at…

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The Whitehorse Community News, a monthly newspaper in the Darrington, Wash., area with about 2,000 readers, is closing its doors, Mike Benbow and Michelle Dunlop of the Everett (Wash.) Hearld write.

The owner, Joe Day, said the paper paid its expenses, but didn’t provide much revenue for himself. It… Read full post »

Newspapers in the United States reported layoffs and job cuts of 462 people throughout the month of January, News Cycle finds. It's only one-fifth of the 2,252 layoffs reported in January 2009.

The largest cut came as The Los Angeles Times announced on Jan. 8 that it would shut down its printing…

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Raquel Rutledge is winner of the 2009 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for her watchdog series “Cashing in on Kids,†Nieman Foundation for Journalism announced today.

In reports published over the course of a year, Rutledge exposed how lax oversi…

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Tribune Co. has until March 31 to file its reorganization plan to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, according to a corporate memo posted on Romenesko.

From: Tribune Communications
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:01 PM
Subject: Message from Randy and Gerry/Court Hearing Today

Today the U.S. Ba… Read full post »

The Justice Department, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service today announced that the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five individuals and sickened 17 others, has formally concluded.

Earlier today, representatives of the FBI and Justice Department provided a 92-page investi…

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The Fed Reserve will raise the discount rate, effective today, to 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent, it said after the trading close.

Graham Bowley and Eric Dash of The New Times write that it's a signal to "banks that the nation’s banks had healed enough to withdraw some of the extraordinary support…

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This is what happens when you send obscene notes via e-mail. They can get you fired.

A reporter at Style Weekly Magazine in Richmond, Va. who was a bit ticked off about a persistent public-relation firm's pitch tried to apparently complain to his editor. But instead Chris Dovi sent it to the…

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Follow the link to watch the hero of the day: A 75-year-old woman fighting off a robber at a Boston-area store with a scanning wand. Police said he had a long record of violence.

Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told Arthur Max of The Associated Press Thursday that he was steeping down.

De Boer is known to be deeply disappointed with outcome of the last summit in Copenhagen, which drew 120 world leaders but failed to reach more than a vague promise by… Read full post »

Tiger Woods is making a big splash in the media Friday with what some majors news outlets are calling a press conference.

But in reality, it's nothing more than glorified public-relations event as it will be attended by friends, colleagues and associates, with only three reporters invited. Those lucky…

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TV Newser is reporting tonight that CNN hit new low viewership totals during prime time Friday night (8-11 p.m.) in both Total Viewers and A25-54 viewers.

Up against NBC's Olympic Opening Ceremony coverage, CNN averaged just 85,000 A25-54 viewers during Campbell Brown (8p), Larry King (9p) and Anderso… Read full post »

Zachery Kouwe was suspended today by The New York Times while the newspaper continues its investigation into allegations of plagiarism.

Jeff Bercovici reports that the business reporter's work could be under suspicion at previous employers:

One additional question in all this is whether Kouwe's use of… Read full post »

Long Island University yesterday announced the winners of 13 George Polk Awards for 2009, including a reporter kidnapped and held by the Taliban for more than seven months and journalists who demanded transparency from the Federal Reserve Board, changed the way professional and youth football leagues…

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The New York Times issued a correction yesterday acknowledging apparent plagiarism by reporter Zachery Kouwe of an article written by Wall Street Journal reporter Amir Efrati.

The Times also mentions that there are other possible incidents of plagiarism by Kouwe.

The issue came to light after Robert…

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