Archive for April 23rd, 2007

Post-cold war journalism in North Carolina »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 23, 2007 in newspapers | 0 Comments

>Newspaper ‘Cold War’ Ends in Carolina After McClatchy Deal (E&P)
Just an interesting story about integrating The Charlotte Observer and Raleigh’s The News & Observer under the McClatchy corporate banner. I think I spotted the word “synergy” in there. What is this, 1999? Check out the story if you have time in your schedule for about [...]

Arizona Realtors side with Zillow »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 23, 2007 in oddities | 0 Comments

>Update to Zillow v. Arizona (James Fee)
For the real estate-obsessed among you. This Arizona flap doesn’t really have a specific link to the world of newspapers and journalism, on which I try with varying degrees of interest to keep the blog at least semi-focused. As I said before, however, Zillow and services like it more [...]

The NYT’s weird story about The Inky »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 23, 2007 in newspapers | 0 Comments

>Philadelphia Journalism’s New Order (NYT)
The NYT’s story about The Philadelphia Inquirer just seems out of tune to me. Like the statement that The Inquirer “… is being watched by journalists to see whether a once-great newspaper with scaled-back ambitions can still fly.”
Did awards and foreign bureaus really make all those “once-great” newspapers truly great, from [...]