Topic “new york times”
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2008-11-19
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States Looking To Cut Services, Raise Taxes As Revenue Declines, Budget Deficits Mount
With the majority of states facing "astonishing" declines in revenue and mounting budget deficits, many are "scrambling to find ways to get through the rest of the year without hacking apart vital services or raising taxes," the New York Times reports. read
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Wall Street Journal Examines Steep Health Plan Premium Increases For Many Sm Businesses In 2009; New York Times Examines High-Deductible Health Plans
Many small businesses could face "markedly higher" health insurance premium increases in 2009 compared with 2008, the Wall Street Journal reports. read
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Bye Bye Bill Kristol
George Packer at The New Yorker makes the case for why the New York Times should in essence fire Bill Kristol, i.e. not renew his one year contract. The guy is so out of touch that he's delusional irrelevant. Maybe one day Fox will realize that too. (Hey, let's not lose our sense of humor!) (Note to the Times: I canceled my subscription when you hired Kristol - last thing we need is another spot where he pops up. Fire him and I'll be […] read
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British Paper Scoops America's Hillary Story
Because news travels faster over the pond: The Guardian is reporting that Hillary Clinton is accepted the offer Secretary of State. Which is funny, because: A) Why would a British paper get the scoop on the story before the, say, New York Times, unless the leak (the story was sourceless) was some American-hating foreigner like…Rahm Emmanuel? [...] read
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New York Times Sports Supplement Folds
Sad, hungover, Tuesdays. When you have to pick the crust out of your eyes, hock out a lung, and wonder why in god's name you are so hungover after Monday Night Football. And then you remember: you spent all night holding an effigy for the demise of your beloved sports quarterly, Play. A New York Times [...] read
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Bill Kristol "Not Really Focused" On Renewing New York Times Contract
Jeff Bercovici grabbed a spare moment of Bill Kristol's time today as he did the rounds for The IFC Media Project (he's a part of that? Well, that's not promising). Somehow the Portfolio blogger was able to smooth talk the conservative writer into discussing his contract with New York Times: a position, rumors say, that [...] read
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VoiceofSanDiego.org is putting local politicians and businesses on the hot seat
New York Times The three-year-old nonprofit VoiceofSan Diego.org "is doing really significant work," says Dean Nelson, director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University. "I have them come into my classes, and I introduce them as, 'This is the future of journalism.'" Executive editor Andrew Donohue says: "No one here welcomes the decline of newspapers. We can't be the main news source for this city, not for the foreseeable future. We only have 11 people." read
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NYT's Play was losing six-digit sums every year
New York Observer The quarterly sports magazine was killed because it was the only one of the Times Magazine products that was losing money at a time when the New York Times Company needs to cut, says editorial director Gerry Marzorati. "It was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years and when you're not […] read
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Departing WPer Segal loves NYC, misses the newsroom atmosphere
Washington City Paper David Segal, who is joining the New York Times, says he fell in love with New York City while covering it for the Washington Post, and looks forward to returning to a newsroom. "I miss having a big room full of reporters." Ex-WPer Michael Powell tells Erik Wemple: "There's no doubt over the many years that NYC has become a roach motel for Washington Post writers -- they tend to enter and never leave." read
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New York Times shutters 'Play' sports magazine
Filed under: New York Times'A' (NYT)In an attempt to cut costs, The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is folding Play, the quarterly sports magazine launched in February of 2006, as the weak economy and declining ad sales slam its stock price and threaten the future of its dividend.The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that the company explored a variety of options for making Play work, including cutting staff and going online-exclusive, but there was just no way to […] read