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Roy Carroll’s new hotel/media empire
High-profile developer Roy Carroll’s new downtown Gboro hotel get front page above the fold in Saturday’s N&R while rumors that he’s backing a new John Hammer publication gets buried on…
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Oh, this’ll help
Gannet is taking steps to rebrand itself, de-emphasizing its newspapers and emphasizing its digital offerings: The goal is to communicate that the company — long identified as the nation’s largest…
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More interesting N&R reporting
I don’t really mean to harp on the N&R, but —- as a loyal subscriber who reads the print edition every day —– I just keep noticing things. Let’s go…
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Re: It’s joke, right?
It is even worse than that. N&O editors are saying that this package from the AP fills its scarce A-front newshole better than anything else generated in-house. If I were…
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Next Phase for Creative Loafing
Not gonna pretend I know what it might be — but nor should anyone else. Atalaya Capital Management laid down $5m. more in cash to go along with $30m. it…
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Zero Hour for McClatchy?
Lotsa chatter via McClatchy Watch and elsewhere that we are weeks — perhaps days — away from additional workforce reductions at MNI. I continue to wonder how much longer a…
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Rich Oppel First, Then Rolfe Neill?
Pay attention to what is unfolding down in Texas. It might be a precursor to the fate of the Uptown paper of record. Long-time Charlotte newsman Rich Oppel, who retired…
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Alt-Media "Experts"
The North American Free Daily Newspaper Association says free dallies are growing in the U.S. and points out that Mt. Airy (!) and Fayetteville are each getting one. Makes sense.…
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Gary Pruitt says….
…everything is A-OK in McClatchy land. Except for revenue. Reading between the lines there remains a powerful incentive for McClatchy to push to reduce costs in 2007 as revenue will…
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Ridder Stays. So Long Knight Ridder?
Hmmm, was expecting a little more flesh on the announcement that Observer publisher Peter Ridder is canceling his planned Jan. 1 retirement to help KR ride out its ongoing management/ownership…
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Re: Now You Know, Fairy Tales
Jon, with all due respect, I feel compelled to refute your generalization about “klutzy paper carriers.” I speak from knowledge on this because not too long ago (less than a…
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Durham Herald-Sun has a new owner
The Herald-Sun of Durham, which runs separate columns of mine in the Sunday edition occasionally and the Chapel Hill Herald weekly, has been sold to Kentucky-based Paxton Media, a family-owned…