Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Media

Up-starts, up-smarts, other cranks & dilettantes adorn a media scene once renown for excellence, so this journal will attempt to point out the more obvious foibles and triumphs of the local press to our gentle readers and fellow Plymouthians.

Columbia Journalism Review on this newssite

Plymouth newssite lauded by Columbia Journalism Review

Year-old "paperless newspaper" wins high praise from journalism's bible

Columbia Journalism Review does profile on us.

Roger Ailes battles an upstart virtual newspaper

The web may be saving America for democracy and free speech
Creator of Fox News buys local weekly, loses staff to online newssite

By Walter Brooks

Another huge drop in newspaper circulation

Newspapers drop another 5 percent nationwide in 6 months,
Globe drops 16 percent and newspapers continue circulation collapse

By Walter Brooks

Cape Wind makes The New Yorker cover

Chatham's Bob Sttaake hits another one out of the park.

Approval of the Cape Wind project has been getting plenty of attention in the national media -- even making the cover of 'The New Yorker' on Monday, May 3.

The Tale of Two Dailies

One leader, two radically different views

By Walter Brooks

The Standard-Times on the South Shore and the Cape Cod Times have the same top dog.

Peter Meyer is the president of South Coast Media Group which includes the South Shore daily and several weeklies, as well as the Cape Cod Media Group which includes the Cape Cod daily and two weeklies.

Yet the two newspaper's editorial line on Cape Wind is as wildly different as anyone could imagine.

Newspaper circulation in free fall, Globe drops 23%, Ledger & Enterprise down 10%; Cape Cod Times -8.4%, USA Today -13.6%, Worcester Telegram -9.4%, will charge for content

Downside to a price hike: The Globe loses nearly one fourth of its paid readers
Herald down 12%, Cape Cod Times down 8.4%, Telegram 9.4%, Republican 18%

Standard-Times website becomes paid

Rupert Murdoch said his newspapers would charge and our S.E. Mass daily is first
$3.37 a week, or 50 cents a day - Can The Cape Cod Times be far behind?

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