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Tuesday | www.modbee.com | William Dowd

Modesto offer: Buyouts for everyone!

The Modesto Bee offered buyouts Monday to all its full-time employees. The announcement comes four days after The McClatchy Company, which owns The Bee and 29 other daily newspapers, announced a companywide ...

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, McClatchy, Publishing, Media, Modesto, CA

Tuesday | www.elpasotimes.com | William Dowd

El Paso Times editor resigns

The editor of the El Paso Times has stepped down, officials at the newspaper announced Tuesday.

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Related Topix: El Paso, TX, Publishing, Media

Tuesday | www.rrstar.com | William Dowd

Rockford dumps 13 more, shuts capital bureau

The Rockford Register Star today announced it laid off 13 full- or part-time employees after eliminating those positions.

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Related Topix: Rockford, IL

Tuesday | www.buffalonews.com | William Dowd

Buffalo News offers buyouts to 107

The Buffalo News announced today it will offer voluntary resignation incentives to about 10 percent of its workforce in an attempt to reduce operating expenses.

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Mon Aug 18, 2008

www.latimes.com | William Dowd

LA Times names new publisher

Caltech alum Eddy Hartenstein, 57, has been a Times reader since his boyhood in Alhambra.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, Tribune

blogs.tampabay.com | William Dowd

200 take buyouts at St. Pete Times

In a memo to staffers this morning, St. Petersburg Times editor, CEO and hairman Paul Tash tells staffers that strong response to the company's early retirement incentives means "we can avoid the general ...

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www.wmfd.com | William Dowd

10 Ohio papers may see job cuts

Ten newspapers in central Ohio, including the Mansfield News Journal, Bucyrus Telegraph Forum and the Marion Star, all may see job cuts after its parent boss, The Gannett Company, announced it is eliminating ...

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Related Topix: Bucyrus, OH, Mansfield, OH

Fri Aug 15, 2008

gawker.com | William Dowd

TV reporters get all rapped up

One awkwardly rapping local television reporter might be written off as a crackpot.

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gawker.com | William Dowd

'A Careful Evisceration of Tim Russert'

Lewis Lapham 's forthcoming Harper's column on Tim Russert is not entirely unexpected, given the cranky literary liberal's public pronouncements on the late host of Meet The Press .

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Related Topix: Tim Russert, Meet the Press, Entertainment, Television

www.editorandpublisher.com | William Dowd

2 Hearst TX papers may join forces

NEW YORK The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News are in talks to share some feature-section production and design efforts, according to Chronicle Publisher Jack Sweeney -- who said the move could ...

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media

www.statesman.com | William Dowd

Cox wants to shed 29 papers

The owner of the Austin American-Statesman has decided to put the daily newspaper and all affiliated operations up for sale with a goal of closing a deal by the first quarter of 2009.

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Related Topix: Media, IT Services, Austin, TX

www.ibj.com | William Dowd

Mag groups cuts salaries, jobs

Emmis Communications Corp. has cut an undisclosed number of positions from its magazine-publishing arm, the Indianapolis radio and publishing company said today.

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Related Topix: Emmis Communications, Television, Media

www.businessweek.com | William Dowd

Germany's newspapers thriving

Here's a scene you don't see at many U.S. papers these days. The publisher settles into his office sofa, glances over his shoulder at the bustling metropolis below, and says casually: "We're doing good!" True, ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet

www.miamiherald.com | William Dowd

McClatchy freezing pay for a year

McClatchy , the newspaper publisher whose holdings include The Miami Herald Media Co., is freezing pay across the company for a year starting Sept.

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Related Topix: McClatchy, Publishing, Media

www.toledoblade.com | William Dowd

Cincy Enquirer seeks buyout volunteers

The Cincinnati Enquirer is asking for 50 volunteers companywide to take buyouts, part of nationwide cost cutting by the Gannett Co.

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Related Topix: Gannett Co, Publishing, Media, Marketing

Thu Aug 14, 2008

KOKI

Gannett cutting 1,000 newspaper jobs

Gannett Co. is eliminating 1,000 jobs, including 600 layoffs, across its newspaper operations, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, Gannett Co

Wed Aug 13, 2008

CPJ Press Freedom Online

Journalists killed in S. Ossetia

Two journalists were reported killed, at least eight were injured, and two have gone missing since fighting erupted between Georgian, Russian, and local forces in the disputed region of South Ossetia.

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Related Topix: World News, Georgia,

Guardian Unlimited

Israel hit on journalist death

The car of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana burning in Gaza after it was shot by an Israeli tank in April.

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Related Topix: World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

Tue Aug 12, 2008

Anchorage Daily News

American journalist slain in Georgia

Winston Featherly-Bean, an Alaskan serving as editor of a small English-language newspaper in war-torn Georgia, was among four journalists shot by combatants in a northern province on Friday, according to his ...

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Related Topix: World News, Georgia, Anchorage Metro, Anchorage, AK, Russia, Asia

Sun Aug 10, 2008

www.newstimes.com | William Dowd

Hearst buys CT Post, 7 weeklies

Hearst Corp. has purchased the Connecticut Post and seven weekly newspapers from MediaNews Group Inc., according to an announcement by the two companies today.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, Stamford, CT, Greenwich, CT

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