A new company - the NOLA Media Group, which will include The Times-Picayune and its affiliated web site NOLA.com - was announced today by Ricky Mathews, who will become its president. The change is intended to reshape how the New Orleans area's dominant news organization delivers its award-winning local news, sports and entertainment coverage in an increasingly digital age. NOLA Media Group will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while offering enhanced printed newspapers on a schedule of three days a week. The newspaper will be home-delivered and sold in stores on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays only. A second new company, Advance Central Services, will print and deliver the newspaper. Both of the new companies are owned ... Continue reading →
Roger Ailes, who loves to bash the liberal media, used some extraordinarily harsh language the other day--and now realizes it. In a speech Monday night at Ohio University, his alma mater, the Fox News chairman described New York Times reporters as "a bunch of lying scum." That's a pretty sweeping indictment of a top newspaper, even by Ailes's blunt standards. A senior Fox News executive says Ailes realizes he went too far and regrets using that language. In fact, the executive says, Ailes believes the Times has been fair to Fox under its new executive editor, Jill Abramson. Ailes has gotten to know Abramson over the years and respects her as an editor. So why did Ailes go off like that, other than his tendency ... Continue reading →
