When the word came down that The Times-Picayune would no longer be a daily newspaper, it wasn�t from the paper�s owners, Advance Publications. Nor was it from senior management or newsroom officials. It came as a brief item on The New York Times� �Media Decoder� blog, written by David Carr, and sent out over Twitter at 10:33 p.m., when the newsroom was largely empty: �Newhouse Newspapers, which owns The Times-Picayune, will apparently be working off a blueprint the company used in Ann Arbor, Mich., where it reduced the frequency of the Ann Arbor News, emphasized the Web site as a primary distributor of news and in the process instituted wholesale layoffs to cut costs.� Five paragraphs in, the story mentioned that longtime editor Jim Amoss ... Continue reading →
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by Steve Myers and Andrew Beaujon Published May 24, 2012 5:34 pm David Simon, whose HBO series “Treme” chronicles life in post-Katrina New Orleans, told Poynter that The Times-Picayune’s decision to cut publication to three days a week and cut staff is “grievous news as it would be for any American city.” He praised the newspaper’s “strong civic work,” particularly its investigations into police brutality and Louisiana’s prison industry: Katrina seemed to give the paper a sense of itself for several years afterward and Newhouse was reluctant to be ruthless after the flood. But New Orleans isn’t immune. No one is. And this slow suicide — as the great Molly Ivins called it — will continue unabated until the industry swallows hard and takes its ... Continue reading →