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News from Poynter- New Los Angeles Times CEO will be paid a starting salary of $1 millionThe new CEO and publisher of the Los Angeles Times will have a starting salary of $1 million, and he's positioned to make much more depending on the financial success of the Los Angeles Times and the company that owns it, Tronc. Ross Levinsohn, 54, the former interim CEO of Yahoo, took over as the […]
- Are alt-weeklies dying or just moving online?In 2009, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia had 135 alt-weeklies in its membership, according to Pew Research Center. In 2015, that group had 117 members. This year, it has 108. Unlike many of former members, The Village Voice isn't closing. But the alt-weekly made news Tuesday when it announced plans to discontinue its print edition after […]
- ‘A watershed moment’: How The Bitter Southerner covered CharlottesvilleWhen a car rammed into a crowd of protesters at a White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday, Chuck Reece knew he had to do something. "It just kind of became clear to all of us really that it was kind of a watershed moment in the South," he said. "We haven’t seen images like […]
- 5 years in, Al-Monitor is relaunching its website and expanding its coverageAl-Monitor, an international news and opinion website founded in 2012, announced this evening a redesigned website in a bid to attract a larger global audience. The site, which is based in D.C. with 16 regional editions, is making several major changes: Expanded coverage of Washington, D.C., with an emphasis on the relationship between Congress and […]
- Facebook just made it easier for users to tell news organizations apartA common complaint from publishers who use Facebook is that every story looks the same. Whether it's from CNN, The New York Times or BuzzFeed, they all have the same basic elements: Photo, headline, blurb and source. That can be a problem, especially for newsrooms that want to set themselves apart from the scourge of […]
- New Los Angeles Times CEO will be paid a starting salary of $1 million