As if McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt didn’t have enough headaches, manic CNBC stock handicapper Jim Cramer gave him the business on his “Mad Money” show last night, adding him to his “Wall of Shame.” Calling McClatchy Co., which owns the Miami Herald and 29 other newspapers, a “ne’er do well…
This morning’s e-mailed announcement to Palm Beach Post staff from Tom Giuffrida was posted on the Pulp earlier this morning: March 7, 2008 To Employees of Palm Beach Newspapers: Cox will announce today that I will be retiring May 1 and that Doug Franklin, publisher of the Dayton Daily News…
Got word that the Palm Beach Post jolted the newsroom yesterday with a bulletin-board announcement that it is cutting costs in the next few weeks, including eliminating an unknown number of newsroom staffers through “early retirement” packages. Post management will also reduce the size of the newspaper by cutting pages,…
Some very influential people are saying all will soon be well with the Florida real estate market. Sam Zell, a billionaire investor who recently bought Sun-Sentinel parent Tribune Co., said last week that an uptick would begin in the spring. Orlando economist Hank Fishkind, a consultant beholden to monied interests,…
When I first watched the video below (courtesy of Calvin Godfrey on Miami New Times’ Riptide blog), I thought James Billie’s song was about as hokey as anything I’ve ever heard. But it’s grown on me like moss on the side of a swamp Cypress. So I’m propogating the sumbatch…
A reader pointed out to me that I should put something up here about the tangle between the Miami Herald and Miami Dolphins honcho Bill Parcells. It started with a report on Yahoo (by former Herald NFL beat writer Jason Cole) alleging that star DE Jason Taylor was on the…
And the winner is … Julie Kay! Congratulations to Julie, a Miami Herald writer (and after that, an NTer, though she doesn’t include that on her bio) now working for the National Law Journal. The society is in good hands, sayeth the Pulp…
Below is Michael Koretzky’s take on the job fair at the Seminole Hard Rock’s Jazziz on Saturday. He notes in it that I didn’t show. He is right and I apologized profusely. It was a tough week and all I can say is that I’ve been at all the previous…
This email, unconfirmed, landed in my box today: On Thursday, February 28, City Link Managing Editor Jake Cline made some staffing cuts. Those who got the ax were: Copy Editor Jana Bielecki, Senior Writer T.M. Shine, and Writer Bon Weinberg. If this is true, then it is truly disturbing. Jana…
Filming is set to begin on “Marley and Me” in South Florida in two weeks, including scenes on location in the Sun-Sentinel newsroom. The movie is based on the best-selling book by former Sentinel columnist John Grogan about his rascally dog (Marley). It’s going to star Jennifer Anniston and Owen…
Three people killed and one critically injured overnight when a speeding Jaguar plunged off a State Road 84 ramp onto I-95. Comments under the Miami Herald brief: “hope the survivor wasnt the driver so there will be one less idot in traffic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” “This phenomena is called Natural Selection.” (From Criminals…
The rumors about Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and the Green Iguana just wouldn’t go away. The story goes that the Florida governor frequented the Green Iguana, a bar in Tampa, back in the early 1990s when he was just starting his political career. He was less careful back then, people…
So it goes like this. The NY Times does a story about a drug called paco. In it is this passage: Paco is highly addictive because its high lasts just a few minutes—and is so intense that many users smoke 20 to 50 paco cigarettes a day to try to…
This bit on the Sun-Sentinel’s new owner comes courtesy of Seattle Post-Intelligencer cartoonist David Horsey(via Romenesko):…
Sam Zell bolstered the real estate market this morning when he went on CNBC and basically said we were at or near a bottom in prices and that the market will get moving next month. I’m really starting to wonder about this guy. Anyway, speaking of sharks, we all know…
— Two questions: Is this really a newspaper story? And how could it possibly have taken two bylines? — The opening installment of the Sun-Sentinel’s series on foreclosures contains a startling fact: In 2006, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 42 percent of mortgages originated in Broward…
From Greg Cote’s column in the Miami Herald on Wayne Huizenga’s selling of half the Dolphins: Bottom line, though, nobody mattered more in making South Florida major-league in sports. Say what you will about Wayne Huizenga, but you might consider starting with, “Thank you.” Yes, thank you Wayne. Thanks for…
Well, that didn’t take long. Former Palm Beach Post political scribe S.V. Date, who resigned from the newspaper last month over a perceived conflict of interest, has made his return to journalism as a contributor to The New Republic. And he’s writing rather glowingly about the man who caused all…
The Sun-Sentinel is trying to make idiots of us all. As I write this, the lead story on the newspaper’s website is about American Idol. But let’s give the newspaper a break. Presidential election, recession, war, Simon Cowell … the Sentinel had a tough choice for its top story of…
The gypsy elder says there’s only one reason he’s out to rid South Florida of John Uwanawich and his family of fortune tellers. “He’s giving all gypsies a bad name,” said the elder, who spoke to me on condition of anonymity in a Burger King on Griffin Road in south…
The latest Tribune Co. cut at the Sun-Sentinel may be the most depressing of all: The company has killed the newspaper’s softball league. The news came out yesterday about the cost-saving move and this one hurts me personally since I’ve been playing in the league for several years (thanks to…
If you didn’t think Miami Herald crime reporter Wanda Demarzo’s week could get any worse, think again. She and her husband, Richard, were robbed at gunpoint and carjacked outside a convenience store early this morning, according a report in her newspaper. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating the carjacking and…
