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USA Today Cuts 9 Percent of Staff, Shifts Focus Away from the Newspaper
USA Today publisher Dave Hunke is cutting 9 percent of his staff and shuffling the executive deck at the paper. “This gets us ready for our next quarter century,” Mr. Hunke told the Associated Press....
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USA Today Founder: 'I Would Have Led the Entire News Staff Walking Out in...
Allen Neuharth, a former Gannett executive who founded USA Today almost 30 years ago, wrote to the current paper’s publisher David Hunke to say that his decision to sell an advertisement to Jeep that...
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Why is The New York Times Investing in Another News Aggregator?
The New York Times has joined Gannet, USA Today and The Washington Post to invest $12 million in Ongo, a Silicon Valley startup that helps aggregate news from multiple publishers. Ongo was founded by...
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Breaking: Earth’s Sun Caught Giving ThermometerJob in USA Today Solar Sex...
There’s really only so much you can say for this. At least it’s wearing sunglasses? Via Romenesko. More dirty headlines and graphics that will give you a very immature giggle on freelance visual...
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USA Today Owner Inks 23K Deal
Gannett Co. is leasing a 23,000 square foot space at 1440 Broadway. The media holding company, which owns USA Today as well as several other daily newspapers and television stations across the country,...
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USA Today Reporters Reporting on Propaganda Become Propaganda Targets
Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker have been investigating possible disinformation campaigns by “propaganda contractors” allegedly working for the Pentagon, so it should come as little surprise that both...
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USA Today Celebrates the Big 3-0 With a New Look
When USA Today launched 30 years ago, it was a new kind of paper – “the Nation’s Newspaper,” without a hometown, brightly colored and with lots of infographics. For the most part, it was a newspaper...
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USA Today Hires Media Editor
Yesterday, USA Today‘s editor-in-chief David Callaway announced that the paper had hired Rem Rieder, the longtime editor of the American Journalism Review as the new media editor. As part of his role...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) American viewers were pleasantly surprised on Wednesday when Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the Holocaust. But now, Iranian news agency Fars is reportedly...
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Dueling Ailes Bios and the New York Times Bestseller List
Comparing Gabriel Sherman’s new book on Roger Ailes, The Loudest Voice in the Room, to Zev Chafets’s book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, would be a worthwhile pursuit, but I’ll have to leave the reviewing...
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Of All The Oil Boom Towns in All Southern Texas: Texas Monthly Writer Claims...
Texas Monthly’s November cover There was something kind of familiar about a recent USA Today article on the impact of the Texas oil boom on a small Texas town. At least, Bryan Mealer, a writer who...
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Media Mix: ‘Print Is Deader’ After Gannett Announces Spinoff
Newspaper chain Gannett, which owns USA Today, announced that it will split its company and spin-off its publishing business. Gannett is the latest business to separate its lucrative non-print...
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Media Mix: A Rough Day for Sports on Earth
Yesterday was a bad day for Sports on Earth, USA Today and MLB Advanced Media’s highbrow sports blog. Rumors began swirling, following the announcement that USA Today owner Gannett was spinning off the...
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Layoffs Hit USA Today
USA Today cut around 70 positions today. This news comes around a month after Gannett, the newspaper chain that owns USA Today, announced its plan to spin-off its print publishing business into a...
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Media Mix: McSweeney’s Becomes a Nonprofit
McSweeney’s, the San Francisco-based publishing company founded by Dave Eggers, is finally becoming what it has always seemed to be: a nonprofit organization. “I’ve always been attracted to books and...
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Sheryl Sandberg SWEARS Lean In Isn’t Just a Way to Tee Up a Political Run
Did you think you were going to be able to escape talking about Lean In if you just kept quiet
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Attorneys Say Google Ads Still Push Drugs
It’s apparently easier than ever to make like Neely O’Hara and hoard red pills, blue pills, all the pills, just
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Helicopter Parents Now Using Find My iPhone to Ensure Teens Aren’t Making Out...
Ah, your first cell phone. If you’re an older millennial, it didn’t come until high school, and parents were still
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With Creation of Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies, Science Finally Makes Itself Useful
If you’re sick of your regular everyday bunny, you’re in luck: a bunch of crazy Turks have bred a colony
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And We Thought Facebook’s Sports Fans Were Annoying: Social Network Now...
Just when that last Farmville fan’s pathetic updates have disappeared from your news feed, Facebook today announced the launch of
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