I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
I look forward to the Pulitzers’ announcement each year, mostly to see what stories are honored and if any of my friends wrote them. (It’s happened a few times.)
Yesterday was no different. Learning that the Pulitzers were out,…
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…
Ross Douthat, (pronounced DOW-thut), a 29-year-old writer and editor at The Atlantic, has been hired to replace Bill Kristol, who left the New York Times one year after his opinion pieces began appearing in the paper.
“[Douthat's] writing steers away…
President-elect Barack Obama is talking about a stimulus package that could reach $1 trillion. Meanwhile, the country is in two wars, the economy is tanking and millions of Americans are looking to the federal government for some serious help.
Seems…
The news from the newspaper industry in the last week has been disturbing. The New York Times is borrowing some $225 million against its headquarters building to free up cash. The Tribune Company, which publishes The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Miami Herald, and The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, have joined the list of newspapers that are up for sale.
The headline above did not spring from my brain. It’s a line I cribbed from David Carr’s New York Times column that ran Tuesday of this week. In it, Carr laments the decline in old media.
As he notes in somewhat understated fashion, it’s been a tough few days for newspapers and magazines.
Barack Obama will return to New Mexico to campaign before the Nov. 4 election, The New York Times is reporting.
Obama, armed with momentum in the polls and the endorsement of former Secretary of State Colin…
