The Rocky Mountain News has rolled the presses for the last time. Here's your Media Crack another-one-bites-the-dust edition: Everyone is competing to be more-elegiacal-than-thou in Romenesko-mourning the Rocky Mountain News, a Denver newspaper which, in the end, was only notable for being the loser...

It's time for second-quarter newspaper earnings reports, with Gannett leading off Wednesday, with the long tale of woe to follow. Given the many newspaper staff cutbacks, which I thought might include the investor relations people, I've put together a few boilerplate remarks that I hope are helpful....

Everyone is freaking out over the fact that YouTube is trying to monetize but 4% of its massive inventory. Truth is, I thought that number was lower.  But whatever the number, it’s a good thing. YouTube is much bigger than its competitors.  I do not think it’s easy for an outsider to r...

The news is out: Newspaper companies can no longer afford reporters and editors. Today's L.A. Times announcement is the latest to catch a news cycle of public attention. As well it should. A 17% cut -- 150 newsroom jobs -- is an unnatural disaster. It's the kind of news that shocks, if briefly. Beca...

As Yahoo burns, the newspaper industry watches, hoping it won't get singed. The Google/Yahoo search ad agreement has drawn lots of comments over the past couple of weeks, but its impact on newspaper consortium members has gotten little attention. The deal itself, if implemented, won't have much imme...

AOL announces video deal with Scripps Networks US based internet Media Company AOL has announced that they have signed on a content distribution deal with Scripps Networks. As part of this deal, AOL would now distribute media content from Scripps Networks’ HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and F...

In commemoration of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, A.J. Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker makes a brief return. Email him to let him know what you think. Tomorrow the Scripps National Spelling Bee will give another group of spindly kids with Akeelah-like aspirations an opportunity to make use of the...

I've actually had a chance this morning to read almost all this month's Carnival of Journalism blog posts at Ryan Sholin's place, and when I got to Jack Lail's from Knoxville/Scripps-Howard, it occurred to me that if you want an example of today's conflicted thinking over newsrooms, contrasting the ...

For 15 minutes each day our virtual team — three people in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, one in London, one in Knoxville and myself in Greensboro — gets together to report what we’ve finished, what we’re working on and list the obstacles in our way to getting things done. Reggi...

Among the roughly 2,000 students who will graduate from Howard University on Saturday, one -- Ashley White -- has come a long, long way. From homelessness and teenage motherhood, she will graduate magna cum laude with a degree in television production and plans for graduate school....