As the economic vise tightens around all of us, but around newspapers more tightly than most, readers may become more suspicious about the influences bearing down on what was once a free and vibrant press. Suspicions like being unduly influenced by commercial pressures. Anyone who has ever worked in...

Just wanted to put this note out to readers and visitors who might be wondering why it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything around here. In three words: I’ve been busy. It’s funny, because I’m always telling my clients that it’s important to blog on a regular...

Freeman has received a number of high profile awards within the past several months. These awards showcase the hard work behind key business goals at......

We knew that Hearst's moves in Seattle -- saying in early January that it would sell or close down the Post-Intelligencer -- was just a dry run for San Francisco. After all, the Hearst-owned Chronicle has bled more than a quarter of a billion dollars by most estimates since Hearst bought it in 2000....

1. Will the Post-Intelligencer Flip the Switch in Seattle? You know, go online-only. (Is online the onliest medium?) With Hearst's Ken Riddick and the PI's Michelle Nicolosi working through the what-ifs, we may have a new, great test to watch. We’d be able to compare the online PI to the Seattle s...

Look no farther than the week’s transport news to get an idea of what kind of muddle we’re in. My Forever stamp is getting to look more and more like the best thing in my portfolio as the Post Office moves toward 44-cent stamps, and oh, incidentally, says that it thinks it can no longer afford S...

Imagine you'd left the planet some time just before the election and just returned. You'd find that suddenly someone's sounded a Press Emergency! First, it was Sarkozy calling his people to rally 'round the failing press -- aux barricades, mes freres. Now, though, it's serious. Time Magazine certifi...

GlobalPost  will get a lot of digital ink Monday, and deservedly so. It takes moxie to launch a news enterprise into the deep, winter gloom of The Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression. It's like Henry Luce founding Fortune in 1930. GlobalPost founders Phil Balboni and Charlie Sennott ...

What a difference a few years can make. Imagine if the New York Times had been one of the first papers to sell front-page space to advertisers in 2005? It was one thing for USA Today, a paper so totally comfortable with commerce, to put ads on Page One, which it did in 1999, but the Times, that was ...

WE are delighted with the results of Compton Hospice's new DVD, and well done to Matt Daniels for all his hard work on the project. The 12 minute DVD focuses on the many different services provided by the hospice, from......