Bidders welcome
The debt-ridden McClatchy Company is trying to unload the Miami Herald, reports the New York Times. So far, it hasn't found any buyers, though.
This is huge news, but its not being reported on the Herald home page (or the Sun-Sentinel's -- though it had a brief in this morning's print edition).
This could get very interesting (and painful). Any buyer would almost surely separate the newspaper from the waterfront property at One Herald Plaza, which would mean a
I've been documenting the downsizing of newspapers here for the past couple of years, so I guess it was bound to happen. My newspaper, which has largely avoided the carnage, has been cutting not just empty positions, but people. And the bloodletting has happened at several other newspapers owned by our parent, Village Voice Media.
Just before Christmas two of our best, Managing Editor Edmund Newton and Music Editor Jonathan Cunningham, were told their posi
Shortly after Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg announced the move of Manny Garcia to El Nuevo Herald, Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal announced that current Features Editor Mindy Marques will replace Garcia as the newspaper's new Senior Editor.
Actually Marques, a former Miami Bureau Chief for People Magazine, isn't replacing Garcia. Gyllenhaal wrote that she will instead "cover" his position and added that other editing positions will b
Flickr user: leoncillo sabinoNew numbers released today by a journalism industry auditor show that the Sun-Sentinel has won a rare victory in the South Florida media wars: Over the past year, its Sunday circulation surpassed the Miami Herald's. Preliminary numbers compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show that by the end of September, the Sentinel's Sunday circulation was 239,230, compared to 238,613 for the Herald. Last year at this time, the Herald's Sunday
