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Dead Media Walking
The Miami Herald and all of parent company MNI make this list of media properties which could go poof in 2009. In fact, the dire situation McClatchy faces with the…
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Light rail: Corruption in Miami and Cost Overuns in Charlotte. Is Raleigh Next?
The Miami Herald’s four part investigative report on Miami’s new light rail transit system turned up quite a waste of taxpayer funds and possibly illegal activities. Much more can be…
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MNI Extends Play for Cash
It trickled out on New Year’s Eve that McClatchy was extending the $190m. sale of its Miami Herald parking lot by six months to June 30th. This is ostensibly due…
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Your Dark and Darker Newspaper Update
They’re cutting down the delivery zone in Oregon, something I could see eventually happening in the Carolinas if revenue continues to shrink. The Miami Herald has drawn the interest of…
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Pssst. Borrowers Are Still Defaulting
Whole bunch of interesting stuff over at Clusterstock. For starters, the ominous news that mortgage borrowers are redefaulting on newly “modified” — government subsidized — loans at an alarming rate.…
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McClatchy Fix: Sell Miami
Just when you thought the MNI braintrust could not be any dumber…. The Gray Lady reports that the company wants to sell off The Miami Herald in order to raise…
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N&O to distribute right-wing terror film
Just kidding. That’s the way the bed-wetters at The Huffington Post referred to “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” which will be included in the plastic bag with your…
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"It's Over" — CBS Cans Billy Packer
Some Carolina fans figure it is about 25 years too late. The former Wake Forest player and ACC TV analyst fixture might have survived his declaration that “this game is…
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Is Rick Thames Serious?
Now it is Rick Thames’ turn to tell the QC that no matter what, the Uptown paper of record will remain the Uptown paper of record. We’ll see about that.…
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The Hammer Falls on Tryon
As we speculated might be coming a couple weeks ago, the Uptown paper of record will cut 11 percent of its workforce, including 22 newsroom spots. Overall the paper will…
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Not a good day for The New York Times
First, a reporter is caught plagiarizing The Miami Herald, and then polls show Executive Editor Bill Keller’s pathetic spin on the John McCain hatchet job is not working, even with…
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Death watch
Morgan Stanley has bailed on The New York Times: Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest shareholder in New York Times Co., sold its entire 7.3 percent stake today, according to a person…