rolling journalism into the shitbin thread

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/entertainment-weekly-print-digital-instyle-1235175928/?fbclid=IwAR196-ip7DWUYnj0ApimDQTWpCT8zjI-B5ZiImB6IaHQIcXmFDDYQMQ0K4k

In a tense, 3-hour meeting with Baltimore Sun staff, new owner David Smith said he didn't read newspapers, asked staffers to rank each other, suggested they be more like Fox45. And more ... reports @LeeOSanderlin @codyboteler https://t.co/QrIWCe7ny2

— Kimi Yoshino (@kyoshino) January 17, 2024

Ah yes, what Maryland needs right now is more right-leaning paper-based media.

Ok please forgive my bitterness but in the year of our lord 1985 I had a journalism teacher who had never worked for a newspaper or, as far as I could tell, had never read a newspaper.

If this is how print journalism dies, let it be so. I will pull some deck chairs out to the shoreline and wistfully watch it burn.

I've known a few advisors who've never worked for a newspaper. but weren't conservative hacks.

i have no particular opinions about the intercept or its corporate structure, but it sure *looks* like ken klippenstein is gonna speed-run the taibbi-gleg process

...in less than 12 parsecs

https://i.imgur.com/uMtUYzT.jpeg

The Riverfront Times, an alt-weekly I wrote for occasionally years ago, has been sold and all its staff have been let go:

The Riverfront Times' owner has sold the St. Louis alternative weekly newspaper, and its buyer is not retaining any current editorial staff, according to the RFT's top editor.

"I am absolutely heartsick to see the good writers, editors and photographers who made this publication a must-read for so many years losing their jobs," said Sarah Fenske. "We fought the good fight, and what else can you say? The journalists here did terrific work day and day out. I hope someone will hire them — and that somehow, despite long odds, they'll continue in the 47-year RFT tradition of printing the truth and raising hell."