Archive for the ‘Newspapers’ Category

Longtime Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur announced that she is going to the paper’s NW Arts & Life section, where she will have a weekly Sunday conversation with a local who is doing something great. She’ll spotlight authors, singers, musicians, politicos, leaders, and more. She is calling the column “Nicole & Co.” On Tuesdays she [...]

Old news by about a month. But for the sake of making sure you all know about it, Michele Matassa Flores is now the Managing Editor of the publication. She can be found on Twitter at @MicheleMF.

Seattle journalist Al Scott has left the Puget Sound Business Journal for Reuters. Al recently appeared on KUOW’s Weekday program which confirms the move here: Weekday Website. Al is now the financial industry editor at Reuters. He’s the former managing editor of the PSBJ. He was a business projects reporter at The Seattle times prior [...]

Gordon Prouty, the advertising director of the San Francisco Business Times has been named publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal. He starts in Seattle on July 5, 2011. Prouty replaces PSBJ publisher Emory Thomas, who was recently named chief content officer of the entire Business Journal network. For more info on Prouty visit the [...]

Seattle news is about to lose another good reporter. Clay Holtzman is about take a part-time job as a web writer at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He’ll be writing creative content about the center’s work, people, collaborations, fundraising and more for the center’s web site and blog. He starts there June 27. His [...]

The American City Business Journals just announced that PSBJ publisher Emory Thomas Jr. has been named vice president and chief content officer of ACBJ. This is a new position for the 40 city business newspaper network. According to the news release issued today, Thomas ultimately will relocate to American City’s headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. Thomas [...]

The Puget Sound Business Journal announced today that it, too, is offering discounted deals. Its spin is that the deals will be on the goods and services businesses need to maintain and grow. The name of the service is RapidBuyr. According to the PSBJ, it will bring the same online purchasing discounts to businesses that [...]

A recent post by Reflections of a Newsosaur suggests that Yahoo is about to unleash a program that will help it compete with local newspaper websites. Apparently, Yahoo is about to produce local websites filled with original content, which means it will pose a challenge to the thousands of newspaper publishers around the country. Newsosaur [...]

MSN is working on a project (http://local.msn.com/)to create hyperlocal news sites for cities around the country, similar to all those hyperlocal sites that are popping up around the world. Microsoft in December announced partnerships with MSN, Hearst, and NBC – this arrangement gives MSN the opportunity to display TV news on its local MSN subsites. [...]

The newspaper industry slide continues with not much bottom support. This graph, courtesy of Mint.com demonstrates the skid.