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June 2004
- Newsday, which recently lowered its circulation figures, has
laid off 6 employees. 40 other Newsday employees have accepted voluntary
buyout offers.
Source: Newsday 6-29-04
- The Spokesman-Review has cut 11 newsroom jobs.
Source: KGW.com 6-24-04
- AOL Email List Sold
AOL's entire subscriber list of 90 million screen names was
sold to spammers by a former AOL employee named Jason Smathers.
Source: MSNBC.com 6-24-04
- Circulation Scandal Hits Newspaper Industry
After the Newsday and the Chicago Sun-Times reported intentionally inflated
newspaper numbers, the industry is worried more faked circulation numbers
will appear. Most newspapers have already seen circulation numbers fall over the
past few years because of the Internet. The newspapers might have to give up
free advertising space to make up for the inflated circulation.
Source: Editor & Publisher, New York Daily News 6-22-04
- Vivendi Universal Games has laid off 350 employees. 110 of the layoffs
came from Vivendi's Sierra Entertainment unit.
Source: Seattle Times, Warcry.com 6-22-04
- 3,000 Blogs Silenced
3,000 blogs have been disabled by RSS pioneer Dave Winer.
Winer disabled the blogs because the traffic and time demands
became to0 great. Originally, the blogs had been hosted at Winer's UserLand
company.
Source: News.com 6-16-04
- A web attack on Akamai has left top websites like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft
temporarily unavailable to web surfers.
Source: News.com 6-16-04
- IT Morale at All-time Low
A study from Meta Group has found that IT employee morale
is at an all-time low thanks to layoffs, lack of job growth
and offshoring concerns.
Source: News.com 6-12-04
- Electronics Arts Plans 117 Job Cuts
Electronics Arts, a leading game developer and publisher, has plans to lay off
117 employees.
Source: GameSpot.com, Gamesindustry.biz 6-8-04
- The Monahans News has laid off three editorial positions in a cost
cutting effort.
Source: OA Online 6-8-04
- Tribune Company Plans 200 Layoffs
Tribune Co. is planning to cut 200 jobs from its publishing
group. Tribune blames slow advertising sales for the staff reduction.
About 20 of the job cuts will come from the The Morning Call.
Editor & Publisher also reported the The Sun of Baltimore and
Newsday of Melville, N.Y. papers could see job cuts.
Source: Chicago Tribune, Editor and Publisher, Mcall.com 6-8-04
- Stalkerazzi
The escalating media frenzy over celebrity photographs has coined a new term
-- stalkerazzi. The New York Post reported that People magazine recently
paid $85,000 for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Monster-in-Law film
photos. Publicists for celebrities argue that the high prices cause
paparazzi to purse star photographs more aggressively.
Source: New York Post 6-4-04
- Serious Papers to Go Tabloid?
Zaman Online reported that some editors at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) Congress in Istanbul
suggested that many serious newspapers will soon offer a tabloid format
to readers. Economist.com also recently reported that the smaller size format
is popular among younger readers and people using public transport and that
the old broadsheet publications are losing readership.
Source: Zaman Online, Economist.org 6-2-04
- Declining Newspaper Readership
A report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that the 6-1-04
circulation of English-language papers in the United States has declined
11 percent since 1990.
Source: Heartland.org 6-1-04
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