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Who’s Killing Your Local Newspaper?
Local newspapers are perfect prey for Vulture Funds. In the face of layoffs, the coronavirus, and private equity firms like Alden Capital trying to strip it for parts, the news industry is on the verge of collapse. Hasan showcases the important work of local newspapers and why we need them now more than ever. Patriot […]
Posted on: Jun 17, 2020, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 4 Comments
Daryl Cagle Writes To His Congressman
Congressman Salud CarbajalDistrict OfficeSanta Barbara, CA Dear Congressman Carbajal, … I run a constituent small business in Montecito, Cagle Cartoons, Inc., that syndicates editorial cartoons and columnists. About half of America’s daily, paid-circulation newspapers subscribe to our service that you can see at CagleCartoons.com. Journalism has been in decline for years, but the newspaper industry […]
Posted on: May 20, 2020, Section: AAEC-feed, Cartooning, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: Comments Off on Daryl Cagle Writes To His Congressman
COVID-19 Maybe, But Another Week Without Fitz?
As noted earlier Lee Enterprises had announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Around the time Adam Zyglis took his two week furlough David Fitzsimmons of The Arizona Daily Star took a single week. Now Fitz is preparing us for a second week without his illustrated view […]
Posted on: May 9, 2020, Section: AAEC-feed, Cartooning, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: Comments Off on COVID-19 Maybe, But Another Week Without Fitz?
Adam Zyglis Takes Furlough from Buffalo News
Earlier this year Lee Enterprises bought The Buffalo News and the BH Group. That purchase became final in mid-March 2020, two weeks later Lee Enterprises announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Yesterday it hit home as The Buffalo News’ Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis announced he […]
Posted on: Apr 14, 2020, Section: AAEC-feed, Cartooning, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 2 Comments
News Flash: Advertisers Dash, Newspapers Slash
above: Rob Tornoe for Editor & Publisher Yesterday our friend Mike mentioned the state of the newspaper industry: The industry is already in rough shape, and we can argue how much of that came from the Internet itself and how much was from a colossally foolish lack of response to the Internet and how much […]
Posted on: Apr 1, 2020, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Diamondback Ceases Print Edition – Launched Kinney, Cho, McGruder Cartooning Careers
The student newspaper of University of Maryland, The Diamondback, has published its last print edition after 110 years. It will continue as online-only. From The Diamondback: After 110 years in circulation, The Diamondback will cease its weekly print publication in March, the newspaper’s parent company announced Monday… According to Tom Madigan — board president of […]
Posted on: Mar 10, 2020, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Newspaper industry, Comments: Comments Off on Diamondback Ceases Print Edition – Launched Kinney, Cho, McGruder Cartooning Careers
Cagle Cartoons Puts On a New Face
Cagle Cartoons has made some changes to its homepage and to functions at the site. Daryl Cagle uses up a little bandwidth to talk about and explain the changes. We’ve made some changes to the front page of our syndicate site, CagleCartoons.com that will affect our contributing artists. The CagleCartoons.com site is the core of […]
Posted on: Feb 26, 2020, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Web Sites, Comments: Comments Off on Cagle Cartoons Puts On a New Face
David Fitzsimmons on The State of Cartooning
When I opened my annual “American Association of Editorial Cartoonists Notebook”, our trade journal, the bell tolled for my profession, page by page, cartoonist by cartoonist. The Golden Age of Oliphant, MacNelly and Paul Conrad is long gone. This year our annual AAEC convention will convene in Ottawa with our Canadian colleagues because our numbers […]
Posted on: Feb 20, 2020, Section: AAEC, AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 24 Comments
Newspapers: Stars and Stripes Funding Threatened
In an effort to keep active duty frontline soldiers uninformed, the new Pentagon budget would cut all funding for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. The proposed cuts to the editorially independent news organization, which is partially funded by the Pentagon, were a product of the recent defense-wide review ordered by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, said […]
Posted on: Feb 16, 2020, Section: AAEC-feed, Comic strips, Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
McClatchy Newspapers File Bankruptcy
Excerpts from a short item on Poynter: McClatchy, the second largest chain of local newspapers in the United States, filed for bankruptcy Thursday… The company has struggled in recent years to meet pension demands, including $124 million in pension funding due in 2020… The Chapter 11 filing will let McClatchy eliminate some pension obligations. In […]
Posted on: Feb 13, 2020, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: Comments Off on McClatchy Newspapers File Bankruptcy
Koterba, Plante, Zyglis Traded to Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises has bought the Berkshire Hathaway (BH Media Group) newspapers. After managing the BH newspapers for 18 months Lee Enterprises now takes ownership of all the BH newspapers, including The Buffalo News. (The Berkshire Hathaway-owned The Buffalo News was not a part of the BH Media Group, but is part of the sale.) The […]
Posted on: Jan 30, 2020, Section: AAEC-feed, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: Comments Off on Koterba, Plante, Zyglis Traded to Lee Enterprises
The Newspaper Chronicles
Today Comic Strip of the Day had a take on The Candorville Chronicle. Which gives me an opening to pass on some newspaper news. While the main focus in covering the squeeze on newspapers is how it affects reporters and editors (and here there is an emphasis on newspaper comic strips and cartoonist), others within […]
Posted on: Jan 23, 2020, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Ken Fuson – RIP (off topic)
Newspaper reporter Ken Fuson has passed away. Ken Fuson, born June 23, 1956, died Jan. 3, 2020 at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, of liver cirrhosis, and is stunned to learn that the world is somehow able to go on without him. Journalist Ken Fuson wrote his own (wonderful) obituary. In lieu of flowers, Ken […]
Posted on: Jan 12, 2020, Section: Newspaper industry, Obituary, Off topic, Comments: Comments Off on Ken Fuson – RIP (off topic)
2020 Prizes/Awards Deadlines
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has published the deadlines and links to various Award and Prize opportunities for Editorial Cartoonists. A few, including The Pulitzer and The Divisional Reubens, have January deadlines. The deadline for Canada’s National Newspaper Awards is only days away. National Newspaper Awards (Canada) Deadline: January 9, 2020 Rules and entry […]
Posted on: Jan 3, 2020, Section: AAEC, AAEC-feed, Awards, Contests, Editorial cartooning, Events, Graphic Journalism, National Cartoonist Society, Newspaper industry, Reuben, Comments: Comments Off on 2020 Prizes/Awards Deadlines
Alt Weekly Gives Up on Cartoons
Jen Sorensen passes on some sad news: Though she doesn’t identify the paper I believe it was one of the Southland Publishing weeklies, which last year was purchased by the Arizona-based Times Media Group. “The Southland publications have always been special in their connection with the communities they serve,” [Steve Strickbine, president of Times […]
Posted on: Jan 2, 2020, Section: Alternative comics, Comic strips, Newspaper industry, Comments: 2 Comments
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