TRIBUNE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
As feared, Tribune has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Tribune maintains that it has enough cash on hand to continue operating its media businesses, and it filed for bankruptcy in order to restructure its debt. “Over the last year, we have made significant progress internally on transitioning Tribune into an entrepreneurial company that pursues [...]
Snark alert: A crack in the glass house
BC-APNewsAlert,0058 NEW YORK (AP) — NBC names named David Gregory as new host of “Today” program. (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APNP 12-07-08 0753MST I’m sure that was news to Matt Lauer. Oddly I’m having a flashback to this quote in the NYTimes from AP’s Tom Curley last week: “The current [...]
Laid off? Start a neighborhood blog
With thousands of journalists losing their jobs, I have an easy prediction to make: neighborhood blogging will explode. Over the past couple months, we (at MyBallard.com) have been contacted by a steady stream of people — almost entirely journalists — looking for insight in starting a My Ballard for their neighborhood. And we say, go [...]
The many possibilities of Facebook Connect
What if Amazon or iTunes integrated Facebook Connect? iPhone games? This presentation from Razorfish ponders the possibilities…
Retail stores face scanning revolution
As you may or may not know, there are apps for iPhone and the Google Android phones that allow you to take a picture of a bar code in a store and get an instant price comparison with the store’s competitors. Someone shopping in Target the other day was told by a clerk that scanning [...]
Newspaper site rips TV news in promo
Promo from Austin’s Statesman.com… Oh, and they’ve built a contest around it, “Name that TV guy.”
Print journalist blasts new KATV.com feature
KATV in Arkansas has launched a new interactive feature that lets users/viewers select one two-minute news story that airs in the six o’clock news and is published online. Hosted and reported by Kristin Fisher, the “Choose Your News” feature also includes a Twitter feed and live streams from both the field (when available) and Kristin’s [...]
Generation of local TV anchors signing off
We’ve written many times here on Lost Remote about the trend in local news to cut back on anchors who make up a disproportionate chunk of the budget. The NYTimes’ Brian Stelter has a story on it today, which brings together the financial reality as well as the perspective from a few anchors who are [...]
HuffPo lands more funding, to expand local
HuffingtonPost.com has $25 million more in funding, and it plans to expand its local strategy to an unspecified number of cities like its pilot in Chicago.
Details of CNN Wire emerging
The NYTimes has a write-up of the CNN Wire, which is designed to provide a lower-cost alternative to the Associated Press. This week CNN is holding a pitch session for editors from 30 or so newspapers including the Plain Dealer, which has been testing the CNN Wire in recent days (see one of those stories [...]
