Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Chicago Tribune ready to buy local
Wrapports LLC Suburban papers and weekly holdings from Pioneer Press are slated for sale once the details are penciled in. Robert Feder broke the story of the impending sale, while Sun-Times staffers found out via twitter. Philip Rosenthal of the Trib was the first to get a story in print.
 
Robert Feder = 10.21.2014 @ 10:00 AM Central = "Stop the presses: Tribune buying
Sun-Times suburban newspapers"= htttps://www.robertfeder.com

Robert Feder = 10.21.2014 @ 2:30 PM Central = " CEO tells staff: Wrapports 'evaluating
variety of investments' " = https://www.robertfeder.com

Philip Rosenthal = 10.21.2014 @ 2:30 PM Central = " Sun-Times suburban strategy may leave no prints" = https://www.my.chicagotribune.com

Papers affected by the purchase will include:
the Aurora Beacon 
the Elgin Courier-News
the Lake County News-Sun
the Naperville Sun
the Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune
the Southtown Star
plus 32 weeklies published by the Pioneer Press

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Legal Challenges Pepper
Aaron Kushner's Recipe
 for Publishing Success
                                                                      Monica Almedia/ The New York Times
10.20.2014
NYTArticle By Christine Haughney

                                                                                                                                            Reuters

 The New York Times 
Media ColumnistDavid Carr applauds
RecentWashington Post 
Editorial&ContentTurnaround 
10.06.2014 NYTTHE MEDIA EQUATION 


                                                                           Brigitte Lacomb/ HBO
                                                                      09.29.2014 NYTArticle By Mike Hale
"A Half-Century of 
Intellectual History"
"Writing about books as a way
   of writing about the world"


09.29.2014NYTArticle By Alexandrs Alter

"Turning a Book Tour
Into a Literary Circus
 (and a Hot Ticket)"

Lena Dunham utilizes trendy elements, mirth and mystery
to promote her Book "Not That Kind of Girl".







"Magazines Get a Way
To Measure Their Reach
Across Media Platforms"
NEW YORKER Magazine
Covers Get Their Chill On
                                                       James Estrin/ The New York Times

          Jodi Hilton For The New York Times
Orhan Pamuk











        Fred P. Conrad/ The New York Times
Philip Roth


Laura Anglin/  National Book Foundation
Ursula K. Le Guin

Legends of
  Letters Write
 Amazon Off

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Post Office Photos:  Left to Right;  Susan Chira,  Janet Elder,  Matthew Purdy and Ian Fisher
"Times Expands Newsroom Leadership
to Address Shifts in Industry"
"Our goals are to get more readers, to continue to stretch the boundaries of story telling in a mobile world that allows us to do things we never imagined, to take on ever larger targets with our investigative reporting, and to expand our ability to cover a world in turmoil."

---Dean Baquet executive editor the New York Times


09.25.2014 Article in The New York Times
By Ravi Somaiya NYT