Newsday.com moves to subscription model
Newsday is putting up a pay-wall on their news website beginning next Wednesday. The website is still free for those…
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News briefs for September 17, 2009
Interviews » Over on Tall Tale Radio, Tom Racine interviews Kimberly Krautter about her book, “Foreclosure on the Fourth Estate:…
Five more reasons the newspapers are dying
Bill Wyman published an insider’s view of the failing newspaper industry at Splice Today. We’ve heard most of the reasons…
News Corp to begin charging for online access
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that within the next 12 months, it will begin to require a fee for…
TechCrunch Reports on Rise of New Media
The TechCrunch website just posted two articles with direct relevance to the ongoing discussions here at TDC about the demise…
News Briefs for June 23, 2009
Comic Strips » A humorous story about Ernie Harwell who in 1953 conceived of a comic strip featuring a baseball…
News briefs for May 14, 2009
Animation » Gerald Scarfe, cartoonist and illustrator who directed animation for Walt Disney’s Hercules, will host this year’s annual Dundee…
Tons of Reviews of the Kindle DX
There is no shortage of general news about the Amazon Kindle DX, and the potential for comic distribution has already become a hot topic onto itself.
The Vinyl Café with Stuart McLean: “In Praise of Newspapers”
The Vinyl Café is an hour-long radio variety show, hosted by Canadian author and comedian, Stuart McLean, and heard across…
News Briefs for April 16, 2009
Comic Strips » Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau has a piece in Monday’s New Yorker (now available online). It’s an “unedited…
News Briefs for March 31, 2009
» Robert Crumb has announced that he is finished with his satirical take on the Book of Genesis. The British…
Seattle P-I goes web-only; runs last print edition
Today’s edition is the last edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Hearst paper closed after an unsuccessful attempt to find…
Why you should subscribe to your local paper
Last Saturday as I was walking out of the supermarket, I was offered a free newspaper. It wasn’t totally free,…
Mike Luckovich does cartoons for pro-newspaper campaign
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich is adding his cartooning efforts to an advertising campaign to promote the future of…
Groening’s “Life In Hell” To Be Dropped By LA Weekly
According to a CNN profile, Matt Groening’s “Life in Hell” is being dropped by its flagship paper, LA Weekly, after…