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Secret cuts: Brian Lambert reports that Secrets of the City, the fusion of the former MNspeak and The Rake magazine, has been “forced to stop payments to bloggers.” While co-owner Tom Bartel says freelancers like Britt Robson and Jimmy “Dude Weather” Gaines, as well as MNSpeak editor Max Sparber, will continue to be paid, it’d appear to cut out talented writers like Rich Goldsmith, Michael Fallon, Rich Barlow, Christina Schmid and others. Lambert says the online publication will continue to have restaurant reviews and arts listings, so perhaps that’ll mean continued paychecks for food writer Jeremy Iggers and arts editor Kate Iverson.
PiPress predicted to “go belly up”: Last week, just as the Rocky Mountain News was prepping its final issue, RealClearPolitics published a list of the “Top 10 Newspapers in Trouble,” which, unexpectedly, did not include the Star Tribune. It did however include the Pioneer Press at number eight in its deathwatch, predicting it may “go belly up first.” In part, RCP writes: “Owned by Dean Singleton’s Media News Group, the Pioneer Press is suffering the same financial crisis that’s plaguing the entire company — heavily leveraged, with loans from Hearst, Gannett and even Bill Gates, and short on cash. And while the Star Trib is trying to get its act together under bankruptcy protection, the Pioneer Press is sinking deeper.”
Nick Coleman, chauffeur? In not-so-new-news, the Star Tribune’s Nick Coleman said his goodbyes to newsroom staffers last Friday, although his official last day at the paper is March 13. In an interview with City Pages, Coleman debunked a rumor that he’d signed a deal to do a weekly OpEx column for the Strib. What’s next for Coleman? “I’m thinking of getting my chauffeur’s license so I can drive limos or maybe raiding chicken coops,” he told CP’s Emily Kaiser. “All you have to do is ride your bike down the street to know where they’re at.”
Hobo blankets! Former Star Tribune (and MnIndy) writer Eric Black passes along Richard Thompson’s cartoon, “Who needs newspapers?“
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Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
Yeah, hobo blankets. If the trees were not all cut down to make newspapers that are tossed out
in the trash hobos would have to cut the trees down to sleep on wooden pillows and have comical rising lumps on their heads and make better cartoons.
Face it, who needs blocks of ice
delivered every day to keep the milk chilled or sends telegrams?
That is where newspapers are going.
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