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.
If the online newspaper eventually does replace the printed page — and I cannot help but believe that it eventually will — there will still be investigative journalists because there will still be readers who want to know the facts.
These days it seems like it is a race between newspapers and banks to see which industry will have more entities disappear by the end of 2009.
After the Boston Newspaper Guild voted against a new contract, the New…
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…
On Monday I wrote about a New York Times reporter who argued that online news sources should stop giving away their content for free. I said that…
There are two interesting stories in newspapers — about newspapers — today, and their wildly diverging ideas on how to save the industry demonstrate how desperate the situation has become. Today in The New York Times, media reporter
In light of Heath Haussamen’s column yesterday about the plight of the newspaper industry, I read with interest a memo posted by Politico.com on the same day. The memo by Washington Post Publisher Katherine Weymouth to the newspaper’s staff…
The Albuquerque Journal isn’t the only newspaper selling commemorative issues of the front page from Nov. 5 — the day after the history-making election of Barack Obama as president. As one person said, “You can’t keep a Web page…
