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Chicago Tribune changes to tabloid Sunday comics format
Last Friday I told you that the Chicago Tribune was going to change their Sunday comics to a tabloid format. Mark Anderson has photos of the before and after as well as a close up on how some features are laid out in the smaller space.
Posted on: Apr 3, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Chicago Tribune changing Sunday funnies to tabloid?
Mark Anderson writes on his blog that the Chicago Tribune is planning to change their Sunday comics from broadsheet to tabloid size. The comics appear to be tucked inside their section of “The Guide.” Below is the notice Mark posted. He’s promised to also post pictures when it comes out.
Starting next Sunday, TV Week is [...]
Posted on: Mar 28, 2008, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
LA Daily News to lay-off 22; Patrick O’Connor could be one of them (UPDATED)
LA Daily News editorial cartoonist Patrick O’Connor is one of 22 employees who will find out today if he will still be among the employed. In an email, Patrick tells me, “I think I’ll be live blogging my firing.”
I’ll post a link to the blog when he sends it to me. I’m not sure if [...]
Posted on: Feb 29, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 7 Comments
Dave Horsey slams Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist Dave Horsey leveled his ink and blog at the new Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell calling him “the most vulgar embodiment of a pervasive bean counter mentality that is threatening the best of American journalism.” From his column on his blog Dave warned that under a Zell leadership the Tribune Co. [...]
Posted on: Feb 28, 2008, Section: Controversies, Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Newspaper changes across the nation
This blog deals primarily with newspaper based cartooning and as such major and minor shifts in the industry can have an impact on most of my readers. I subscribe to various newspaper and media related RSS feeds to keep track of the rumblings in the industry. Here are some of the recent changes that have [...]
Posted on: Feb 22, 2008, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 8 Comments
Sun-Times announces lay-offs; Higgins’ position is safe
Sun-Times Media Group announced that it is considering laying off as many as 35 of their newsroom staffers within the next month. I contacted Jack Higgins, the paper’s editorial cartoonist, who told me that he has been assured that his position is safe. He also noted that he does almost exclusively local cartoons.
Posted on: Jan 7, 2008, Section: Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Tribune company CEO receives $41 million buyout
Dave Astor reports that former Tribune Co. boss Dennis FitzSimons is receiving a buyout package of approximately $41 million. When contacted by E&P, AAEC President Nick Anderson for a response, Nick and others of the AAEC board drafted up a top 10 list of fund-raising ideas to make sure FitzSimmons receives his fair portion.
The list [...]
Posted on: Jan 7, 2008, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 5 Comments
Sacramento Humor Times no longer free
The monthly Sacramento Humor Times (formerly the Comic Press News), which prints comics, and editorial cartoons, will no longer be a free publication after this month. The magazine claims a circulation of 40,000 has been losing advertising revenue and is forced to move to a paid-subscription beginning in January. The national version will cost [...]
Posted on: Dec 11, 2007, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Union-Tribune to offer buyouts to employees
San Diego Union-Tribune has offered buyouts to about six percent of their work force and threatened layoffs if not enough bail ship voluntarily. Luckily for editorial cartoonist Steve Breen, his position is not on the chopping block. In an email to me he states:
They told me that I am on the list of people ineligible [...]
Posted on: Dec 5, 2007, Section: Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Modesto Bee shrinks their Sunday Comics
The Modesto Bee has shrunk their Sunday comic pages. The paper used to run 29 features over six pages, but has reduced the comic section to 29 features on four pages. The editor cites cost cutting as the primary reason. He offers that a third party company that prints the comics has a new process [...]
Posted on: Nov 21, 2007, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 3 Comments
Journal Sentinel to buyout 55+ employees
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has announced plans to buyout 55-60 employees as part of a cost reduction effort due to sagging ad revenue. The employee buyouts are voluntary. Stuart Carlson, who has been the paper’s editorial cartoonist for 24 years, reports that 22 employees have taken the paper up on its buyout option, but he [...]
Posted on: Nov 8, 2007, Section: Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Newspapers look to create own ad network
Five of the nations largest newspaper companies are in talks to create their own advertising network in hopes of recapturing ad revenue that hasn’t been made the leap from their print products to their web offerings. The consortium will create a common ad sales force to help compete against ad networks set up by Yahoo [...]
Posted on: Nov 7, 2007, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Analysis: McClatchy, Lee, and Journal Register in danger
The American Thinker blog takes a look at the recent Chapter 11 filing of Movie Gallery, the largest retail DVD rental operator, who’s business has been swept away by the internet and digital cable. Movie Gallery’s mistake was investing $1 Billion dollars into Hollywood video two years ago and never seeing the revenue come in [...]
Posted on: Oct 11, 2007, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Two Chicago papers to merge
Two Chicago area newspapers will be merged together in an attempt to restore profitability. The Daily Southtown will be merged this November with it’s twice-weekly sister paper. It has also brokered a deal to have rival paper Chicago Tribune take over most of the deliveries of the Sun-Times to save another $5 million.
The new paper [...]
Posted on: Oct 9, 2007, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Scott Adams: The cell phone will kill of newspapers
I don’t know if Scott Adams frequents The Daily Cartoonist and saw our discussion last week on newspaper trends, but he’s waded into the discussion by posting his prediction on the future of newspapers. In short it will happen within your next 2 mobile phone upgrades.
I predict that the end of printed newspapers will [...]
Posted on: Oct 2, 2007, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 13 Comments
