The news is spreading here in New Orleans and across the journalism world: the fabled Times-Picayune, as we all know it, may cease to exist. Visitors tour Hurricane Katrina front pages from The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans and the Sun Herald of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, as part of the 'Covering Katrina' exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC. (Image credit: AFP via @daylife) Writing in The New York Times, David Carr gave details in today’s edition of what seems to have been a closely guarded secret. According to his sources, Newhouse Newspapers, a division of Advance Publications, the Times-Pic’s owner, plans to discontinue the daily paper and embrace the model that it used in Ann Arbor, Mich. That means relying heavily on the ... Continue reading →

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Advance Publications, owned by the Newhouse family, said Thursday it would scale back the printed edition to three days a week and impose staff cuts as a way to reduce costs as well as shift its emphasis to expanded online coverage. The decision will leave New Orleans as the most prominent American city without a newspaper that is printed every day. But it also reflects the declining lure of the paper as a printed product. In 2005, before Katrina struck, the paper had a daily circulation of 261,000; in March of this year, the circulation was 132,000. The developments were the latest instance of reorganization in a rapidly changing industry, which continues to struggle with declining advertising revenue and the changing preferences of readers for ... Continue reading →

JACKSON — Gregory Olsen is one of the very few humans to journey into space. He also is part of an even smaller elite group � a tiny number of rich private citizens who paid millions of dollars to hurtle 17,000 miles per hour through the black abyss beyond the atmosphere.Olsen talked to hundreds of students at Jackson Memorial High School on Thursday about his unique life as an entrepreneur millionaire and a cosmonaut who spent a week on the International Space Station.Olsen also shared his Space Station videos with the students. In one, he is seen drinking floating globes of water. Another shows cosmonauts performing maintenance on the station�s bathroom.�We�ve never seen stuff like that before,� said Chad Caruso, an 18-year-old Jackson senior.Speaking to ... Continue reading →

As the tourist season kicks-off, liquor stores, bars and clubs are working to keep spikes in underage drinking, fake IDs, and drunk driving at bay.Some owners not only hire professional bouncers but employ off-duty police officers.�I have a police officer stationed at my door to check IDs,� said Glenn Rossi, the owner of Used to Be�s liqour store restaurant and bar in Brick. �We have a short season but we have a big surge from Memorial Day weekend until Labor Day and the biggest challenge is training the (summer) staff on the guidelines.�For help with preventative measures, Rossi turns to the DART Coalition of Ocean County, which is part of the Barnabas Health Institute for Prevention. DART, or Developing Alcohol Responsibility, is a state-funded nonprofit ... Continue reading →

SANDY HOOK — New Jersey's beaches are in the best shape seen in a decade, and seaside businesses are already reporting sharp uptick in visitor business, coastal scientists and tourism experts said Thursday."We're hearing from hotels, anecdotically, that they're up 20 percent over last year," said Ben Rose, director of marketing for the Greater Wildwoods Tourism Improvement and Development Authority.Visitor "are recession weary, they want a vacation," he said at 10th annual State of the Shore presentation by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium."We had 80 million visitors to New Jersey in 2011, a 14 percent increase over 2010,� said Grace Hanlon executive director of the state Division of Travel and Tourism. "We were hoping to just keep market share."Hanlon said her agency's contacts in ... Continue reading →

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by Steve Myers Published May 24, 2012 9:41 am Updated May 24, 2012 10:09 am MediaWire memo | The Times-Picayune A memo from Times-Picayune publisher Ashton Phelps Jr. confirms that the newspaper will cease daily publication, moving to three days a week in the fall: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The memo also confirms staff cuts, though it doesn’t say how large they will be. The New York Times’ David Carr reported Wednesday night that the paper likely would cease daily publication. Phelps tells staff: Press reports have necessitated our giving you this news now. We realize it will make people anxious, but we do not know enough today to be able to announce how the changes will affect individual employees. We will move as quickly ... Continue reading →