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Santa Fe’s 22 million dollar man: Marc Correra shared in $22M in fees, not $16M
Both the Albuquerque Journal and the Associated Press are reporting that Marc Correra shared in $22 million in third-party marketer fees, a much larger total than the $16 million previously reported.
Who speaks for justice?
“The spirit of liberty,” said Judge Learned Hand (1872 – 1961), “is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women.” What put me in mind of his wisdom is the instant feedback afforded by Web publications, including the New Mexico Independent.
New Mexico has to admit it has a water problem
The first step is to admit you have a problem.
“We have deficit spending that we’ve been doing for a long time, and we’ve become fairly addicted to it,” said Bob Wessely.
This is how the Albuquerque Journal’s John Fleck starts a column that can be found on today’s front page.
ABQ Journal: Drought conditions worsen in New Mexico
Federal officials announced that drought conditions are spreading across New Mexico, according to the Albuquerque Journal’s science/water/global warming writer John Fleck.
He just posted an update using the State Drought Monitor,. which is part of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
New Mexico investment funds take a beating — with a capital B
Just when I was thinking that we’d seen the worst of the economic crisis — a notion first planted in my noggin by a couple of friends and then reinforced by this recent CNN poll — I learned that New Mexico’s large investment funds had lost $5.7 billion in the last three months of 2008.
Yes, [...]
N.M. media struggle for viability online
Local media are attempting to bridge the gap from the old, dead-tree newspaper model to the newer online model. But journalists and other experts are not optimistic about the economic sustainability of such ventures or even of their ability to match the scope of what traditional newspapers have been able to cover in the past.
Which will be the first no-newspaper city?
The New York Times has an interesting article on the plight of newspapers. And they ask the question — when will a major city in the United States become a no-newspaper town?
Albuquerque became a one-newspaper town a little more than a year ago with the closing of The Albuquerque Tribune. Denver recently became a one-newspaper [...]
ABQ Journal Managing Editor Karen Moses takes on new marketing gig
Smart move or much ado about nothing? You decide.
NMI has learned that Albuquerque Journal Managing Editor Karen Moses will be moving to the Albuquerque Publishing Company’s (APC) marketing department for three to six months. There she will serve as the go-between for the news side and the publishing side of APC’s trademark publication.
NMI and Monahan kiss and make up
Big sweetie sugar pie Joe Monahan made nice-nice with NMI this morning, so now we love him and he is back on the birthday party list. In a post on his site this morning, Joe clarified what he meant when he said ”Original statewide coverage of New Mexico news is essentially limited to the Journal, a [...]
Circling the Drain
The E.W Scripps Company, which owns the Rocky Mountain News, said on Dec. 4 that it was putting the paper for up sale and would close it if no buyer emerged by mid-January. Anyone else feeling deja vu?
NMI punched in arm, called stupid by boys who secretly love us
Last week, in a two-page internal memo announcing cuts and newsroom layoffs, Albuquerque Journal Editor Kent Walz explained the many painful decisions he’s had to make, then closed with this memorable line: “And despite the challenges, our goal is for the Journal to continue to set the bar for real journalism in New Mexico.”
While the [...]
Richardson rumors swirl while the Senate expresses surprise
The dots continue to be connected on Bill Richardson’s withdrawal from his nomination to be commerce secretary. This morning Michael Coleman and Dan Boyd at the Albuquerque Journal confirm what we had all heard: that the Senate — Democratic and Republican alike — wasn’t planning to give Richardson a hard time about the federal [...]
Not every N.M. reporter likes Twitter
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Twitter. So are a few other New Mexico reporters. But at least one reporter for the Albuquerque Journal doesn’t really see the point in the microblogging service.
Leslie Linthicum, in the Journal’s Up Front column on Sunday, used the large soapbox to tell everyone, in paragraphs of 140 [...]
ABQ Journal failed to disclose ex-Rep. Richard Minzer’s corporate lobbyist work
An interesting exchange played itself out in the Albuquerque Journal in the week before Christmas, on the topic of “combined reporting.” And along the way, the Journal left out one important point in it’s editor’s note about one of the commenter’s discussing whether or not multi-state corporations should report the income they made in New Mexico, and pay taxes on it.
Not a happy New Year for newspapers
Readership is down as young people gravitate to the Internet (where they often read newspapers or opinion based on papers). Newspaper advertising revenue was eroding even before the financial crisis; now it’s plunging. Newspapers’ old business strategies are dying; new rationales are unborn or infantile.