The East Bay Express’s publisher resigns
The East Bay Express: Where #MeToo met up with #WhiteLivesMatter. Welcome to the sad, sad story of Stephen Buel, erstwhile publisher of the Express, an Oakland-based weekly newspaper specializing in investigative journalism… Read more »
Suprise! More layoffs at New Jersey newspapers after Gannett buyout
As we’ve written, in the newspaper industry, buyouts by Gannett Company, Inc. have become synonymous with job losses. Paper after paper across the country has seen layoffs after being acquired by Gannett,… Read more »
Call a fig a fig: AP releases press standards for reporting on the so-called alt-right
We here at MobyLives make a living off the assumption that words, and the ways you use them, matter. For example, it matters that the president-elect is incapable of completing a… Read more »
Gannett’s failed bid for former Tribune Company overshadows recent layoffs
Not long ago, our own Simon Reichley pointed out that, as dismal as employment prospects in book publishing may appear, they’re rosy compared to the way U.S. newspapers have been hemorrhaging employees for the… Read more »
Suspended Budapest journalists align themselves symbolically with the homeless
Yesterday, journalists at the liberal Budapest newspaper Nepszabadsag, which was abruptly shut down earlier this month, staged a collaboration with the city’s homeless to protest what they believe was a government intervention… Read more »
Archant launches The New European, a pop-up newspaper for Remainers after Brexit
Archant, a privately owned UK newspaper publisher and media company, has announced the UK’s first ever “pop-up” newspaper. The project was conceived in response to the UK’s recent Brexit vote,… Read more »
Going, going, gone! The rush sale of The Financial Times
The Financial Times newspaper was sold yesterday to the Japanese financial media group Nikkei. The FT had been owned by Pearson Publishing Group, one of the biggest players in the… Read more »
Revealing the contents of century-old time capsules
At least three time capsules were opened in the United States this week— one in New York dating from 1914, another in Boston found in the “head of a lion… Read more »
Read All About It: new exhibition celebrates the history of newspapers
Today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper, except when it comes in the form of an exhibition celebrating the inky history of newspapers. Monday night saw the London opening… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal of the Underground Press
Here’s an embarrassing story. About a month into college thesis research, I made a stunning breakthrough: I did not know how to do college thesis research. Had I been writing… Read more »