E.Republic Acquires Times Publishing’s Governing Magazine

St. Petersburg, FL (AHN) - The Times Publishing Co. agreed Friday to sell Governing magazine to California media company e.Republic for an undisclosed price. Governing began publishing in 1987 and claims governors, mayors, lawmakers, local council members and ... Read >

Nation’s largest publisher of gay & lesbian newspapers shutters titles suddenly

Window Media LLC, the publisher behind gay newspapers Washington Blade, Houston Voice, Southern Voice and South Florida Blade has shuttered the titles suddenly due to financial problems, the Associated press is reporting. In an interview with the AP, ... Read >

The Epic Wordpress + MediaTemple Failure

A week ago I, Kyle the Invincible!, was hit by an injection attack on the majority of my own sites, and it took a large handful of hours to even figure out what was wrong.  Once I ... Read >

Canadian television is about protectionism

There is a big discussion going on right now in Canada about the whole idea of a fee-for-carriage 'tax' being added to our cable bills in order to insure the survival of 'local' television. This tax being ... Read >

Murdoch and News Corp don’t deserve web traffic so STFU and pull the plug

I'm getting really sick and tired on this waffling back and forth by old screwed up news organizations like the AP and News Corp. All they seem to do is constantly whine and cry about how all ... Read >

Ralph Peters and the Islamofascist Fort Hood boogeyman

Ralph Peters is at it again, this time with a nutty, fearmongering New York Post op-ed that's full of conspiracy theory insinuation about how the President is a seekrit Muslim. Peters, who you may recall for his ... Read >

A boatload of trouble

Fox News and Bill O’Reilly are gloating over the numbers they got during the 8 o’clock slot over the news of the Ft. Hood shootings, saying that they wiped out CNN and MSNBC. Even scarier is ... Read >

The coming world of the multimedia journalist

We hear the scare tactics everyday. The news industry is tanking and the only way to save it is by returning to putting everything behind the paywall or instituting some sort of micro-payment schemes. News can't survive ... Read >

Mainstream Media’s Death – Pending

Everyone has seen it coming but those effected by it:  the mainstream media has been in a long, slow slide that will inevitably end in its death, and they have long since decried this as outrageous – ... Read >

Journal to Close Boston Bureau, Lay Off 9 As Ad Revenue Falls

New York, NY (AHN) - The editor of the Wall Street Journal thought the unthinkable on Thursday and announced the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston bureau is closing, resulting in the layoff of nine reporters. Managing Editor Robert Thomson ... Read >

Those ads are just so fly – literally

I've seen some pretty ingenious advertising in my time but the idea of using flies - yes flies - to help deliver your ads is definitely out there in left field. I'm not sure who thought up this ... Read >

Book publishers, book sellers face being WalMarted to death

If there is one thing you can say about the Web it is that it is responsible for the disruption of more businesses than just about any recession. We hear daily about the newspaper industry facing annihilation, the ... Read >