San Francisco Chronicle journalists are trying to talk investors into buying the foundering daily newspaper and restructuring it as a nonprofit, writes the SF Appeal. Who are the ink-stained wretches courting? The editorial workers would invest some of their own money, a Guild representative told th...

In your philosophical Friday media column: arm-twisting at the San Francisco Chronicle, intellectual thuggery at the NAACP, body-slamming of college papers, and death and rebirth of reporters: Even as it's busy shutting down the Seattle paper and (maybe) combining some papers in Texas, Hearst has fo...

TABLE OF CONTENTS February 2009 Rare Spawn A Brief History of Getting Knocked Up In Video Games by AJ Glasser Fear And Loathing Down Under No, World Of Warcraft Has Not Been Banned In Australia by Luke Plunkett You're Fired The Face of The New Gaming Economy by Brian Ashcraft Obsessive Game Design F...

In your funereal Thursday media column: the Rocky Mountain News is dead, we'll all see more dead soldiers, the New York Times is dying slowly [UPDATED: ad layoffs], and Tribune is dying quickly: After almost 150 years in business, the Rocky Mountain News is dead. It's the first major big-city paper ...

Brian Tierney was a bulldog Philadelphia PR man much hated by Philadelphia journalists before he led a group that bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News in 2006. Let's review how that's worked out: In the summer of '06, Tierney and some wealthy Philly-area investors purchased the papers fro...

In your informative Thursday media column: Wired's publisher is out, John Updike's death begets a new book, NYP employees are pissed, and good and bad ideas for newspapers: Chris Mitchell, the publisher of Wired, has moved over to become the publisher of Conde Nast Traveler. I don't know, Mitchell; ...

newVideoPlayer("/stripclub_ad_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Michael Precker was a seasoned foreign correspondent and family man, "the last guy anyone would have expected to become the manager of a topless joint." The job just seemed more sane than journalism. Precker was mentioned in a Wall Street Jour...

Today is a major layoff day at publishing house HarperCollins. Below, two internal memos [Updated: three], and the rumors we've heard so far: We hear there are many layoffs in the PR department, and that high level editors are being axed. Some of that is detailed in the memos. What the memos have sa...

TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2009 Outside Looking In Persona 4: Reflecting The Self by Leigh Alexander An American Tale Mr. McGee Goes to Hong Kong by Brian Ashcraft What’s In Your Gamer DNA? In Search of Wisdom from the Crowd of Gamers by Owen Good The Wii’s Gray Christmas Supply Catches Up With S...

The Baltimore Examiner is closing 30 months after it launched because of low revenues. The Examiner chain of free papers will keep its San Francisco and Washington editions going. Memo below: [Baltimore was perhaps not the best market for the 'targeted home delivery' free paper model.] UPDATE: Befor...