Market analysts were puzzledwhen Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) paid $650 million for Newsday last May. Almost one year later $400 million of write-down, it was obviously a bad move, but Cablevision's latest decision makes their initial purchase look like Seward's deal for Alaska. Cablevision just announce...

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: It's a glorious, bona fide press brawl! Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from senate consideration touched off the rivalry between New York and D.C. news desks. New York won. The inauguration and near-socialization of finance was already stoking Washington, D.C.'s ascent. Then came the squabbling...

The top editors of Newsday: they're missing! From work. Or are they? Rumors say they've been fired! Other rumors say they haven't. One thing is for sure: Cablevision sucks a big one, managerially speaking. Yesterday Keith Kelly reported, perhaps a bit sensationally (in the Post? I know!) that "Chaos...

BiggerPockets.com continues to attract the attention of the mainstream press, and I thought I’d share a few recent mentions of note. The following are articles that I was interviewed for, which are now live: What’s ahead: Buyers and sellers will fare better in 2009 if they know what to l...

Newsday, the little Long Island paper that couldn't, just laid off 100 staffers. And they told the union: On the way out, take your damn holiday "food drive bins" with you. Bah humbug: From a union email to staffers: EDITORIAL UNIT NOTE December 17, 2008 In a move that would make a Grinch green with...

My weekly Columbia Journalism Review online column is live on the site. The topic: obiticide. Death by media. An excerpt: Death by Obiticide I have some bad news to pass along this week: two people were killed as a result of sloppy journalism. It happens more often than you might expect. It’s freq...

The Dolans are enacting their first big job cuts at Newsday. In total, 5 percent of the workforce will be reduced with hits on both in the newsroom and on the business side. For editorial, the sports department, photo department and newsroom editors will be hit hardest. The position of sports column...

If the Tribune Co. follows its sale of Newsday by getting rid of the Chicago Cubs, the newsroom of the Chicago Tribune will be a happy place, says the newspaper’s public editor, Timothy J. McNulty. Ownership of the Cubs is a bane to the sports department, which can’t seem to prove its impartiali...

When Cablevision's ruling Dolan family—famous for making reporters' lives hell as they try to cover the Dolan-owned New York Knicks—became the new owners of Newsday , every media reporter in the city simultaneously realized that they could write a funny story about how the asshole Dolans...