If you’re following the ‘dating’ life of Knight Ridder newspaper, this article will give you and update on who’s interested to buy the chain.A financial buyer, such as the new consortium, would take on a heavy debt load and likely cut jobs, install new management and sell off noncore and struggling assets to improve the […]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel becomes the third major newspaper to run with TokyoPop a manga stlye comic strip.They’re the characters in a comic strip – TokyoPop – that will run Sundays starting Jan. 8 in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It will alternate between “Peach Fuzz,” running for 24 straight weeks, and “Van Von Hunter,” for […]
USA Today has an write up about the growing popularity of Manga and the two newspapers (LA Times and Seattle Post) that now carry syndicated manga. TOKYOPOP founder Stuart Levy acknowledges that manga is not yet as popular in the USA as it is in Japan, but he expects that will change soon. “It’s like […]
Another ‘save the editorial cartoonist’ story – this time in the Buffalo News. “Television and radio can’t do this,” said Bennett, who has won numerous awards for his work over the past two decades and is a five-time nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. “There’s something very personal and special about an editorial cartoon in […]
The Sun-Times’s new paid circulation numbers are down 100,000 papers. “That’s dramatic,” said John Morton, an industry analyst based in Silver Spring, Md. “It’s huge. It’s an enormous reduction, and we’ll see how they recover from it. In the current environment for the newspaper business, it’s very difficult to add to circulation, and I’m sure […]
There is a really good interview with Clay Bennett, President of the AAEC, on PJnet. Bennett talks about the recent lay-offs and buy-outs, the journalistic standards of editorial cartoons, blogs vs. editorial cartoons, and his advice for anyone wanting to be an editorial cartoonist. Certainly the New York Times is a great paper. And it […]
Joel Pett’s weekly ‘Toon-op” subject is Black Ink Monday and the current situation in the editorial cartooning industry. And so the cartoon lightbulb labeled Black Ink Monday clicked on, and cartoonists’ gloves came off. The idea was to draw attention to corporate journalism’s budget cutting, which has sliced through the skin, fat, bone, muscle and […]
Lee Judge, editorial cartoonist for the Kansas City Star, has an editorial/column explaining the plight of the editorial cartoonist. The only way I can avoid upsetting someone is by refusing to deal with hot-button topics and making lame jokes on trivial subjects (which, if push comes to shove, is Career Plan B). Not only is […]
According to this business columnist, the newspaper industry is in a great position to make the leap into the internet world.Publishers are struggling to develop a new business model to reap revenue from users of a medium who from the Internet’s earliest days have usually balked at paying for content. Yet for all that, we […]
At the end of Black Ink Monday – “a non-violent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists,” one must ask how successful was the organization’s stand?My guess? It wasn’t. Yes, scores of cartoonists “participated,” but a quick look at cagle.com or comics.com and I didn’t see that any of the protest ‘toons were published […]
Perhaps ol’ Knight Ridder is an attractive buy after all.Two major newspaper companies — Gannett and McClatchy — and a handful of private equity firms have expressed interest in buying San Jose-based Knight Ridder, raising the chances that the nation’s second-largest newspaper group could be sold sometime next year.
The AAEC website has a round up of all the editorial cartoons protesting the decline of editorial cartoonists in the U.S. – especially those inflicted by the Tribune Company. Take a moment and visit the site. There are 99 cartoons at the time of this writing. They also provided an email address to Gary Weitman, […]
Today is Black Ink Monday and yesterday a couple of columnists wrote about the upcoming event. Ted Vaden of the News & Observer talks about Dwane Powell’s work for their paper and the decline of the editorial cartoonist population in the U.S. Their numbers seem to dwindle daily. Last week, prize-winning cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher […]
Gannett CEO Craig Dubow says that Gannett has had record revenues for 2005 and that they are taking a ‘hard look’ to acquiring Knight Ridder. But the first question for Craig Dubow, Gannett’s president and CEO, following the presentation concerned the company’s interest in acquiring suddenly up for grabs Knight Ridder. Dubow answered: “We are […]
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun, talks to E&P about the buyout he didn’t intend to take. But then Kallaugher heard that The Sun’s publisher had discussed eliminating the cartoonist slot entirely to save money. “Rather than wait for the ax to drop on my position at The Sun, I opted for […]