|
|||||
|
Here’s one of the things I’ve loved about hanging around newspapers all my working life: the smell of a new edition of the paper coming off the press. Now, thanks to a Missoula couple, I can log that pleasant inky aroma on a global map of smelly places. And on Sunday, thanks to reporter Keila Szpaller, [...] Advertisement
Photograph by CNNMONEY.com Should the Chinese be allowed to buy Newsweek magazine? After the “for sale” sign went up at the longtime American weekly, one of the prospective bidders was the Southern Media Group, based in China, and Chengdu B-Ray Media. The offer was rejected, but it has provoked considerable discussion about who should and shouldn’t be [...] Our readers have come through again, providing the Missoulian with wonderful stories and photographs – all of which we’ll share this Sunday in our Territory cover story. As our tribute to Father’s Day 2010, we asked readers to send in the best advice they got from their dad. Dozens did so, and their stories are wonderful. From [...] There’s more good news in the journalism business today: The Detroit News and Detroit Free-Press, which had scaled back to home delivery on just three days a week, are resuming seven-day-a-week service. The newspapers made the announcement late Sunday. Here’s a link. In March of 2009, at the height of the recession, the papers reduced home delivery [...] Great news for all you iLovers in the house: The Missoulian has an awesome new iPhone app, available through iTunes. It’s currently available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and soon-to-be released on the iPad. So tell your friends about it, download it yourself, and – in the words of Missoulian digital manager Tim Akimoff, “Let’s keep our [...] Workers at Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.’s Frenchtown mill leave at the end of their shift last Dec. 14, the day the mill’s closure was announced. LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian I am so proud today of the reporters, photographers and editor I work with every day here at the Missoulian. The Missoulian’s coverage of last December’s closure announcement at Smurfit-Stone [...]
Henry Luce in 1948 Was Henry Luce the “blog godfather”? Bill Keller suggests so in today’s New York Times Sunday Book Review. Keller reviews Alan Brinkley’s new biography, “THE PUBLISHER: Henry Luce and His American Century,” a look at the man who founded Time, Life and Fortune magazines and revolutionized journalism. In its earliest days, Keller says, [...] The April edition of Western Montana InBusiness Monthly is just out, and well worth seeking out. We have copies available for free here at the Missoulian, as well as on racks all around town. So what’s the big deal? Facebook, Twitter, social networking and little businesses are making big waves in western Montana. Everywhere we turned while working [...] A hearty welcome back to western Montana to the new publisher of the Kalispell Daily Inter Lake, Rick Weaver. The Associated Press announced Weaver’s return to his hometown in a story this morning. Here’s what they had to say: NAMPA, Idaho (AP) – Idaho Press-Tribune Publisher Rick Weaver is leaving the Nampa paper to serve as publisher [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Missoula Editor - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
Who wants to buy Newsweek?
I’m not a regular reader of Time or Newsweek. I used to be – before they shed so much of their news magazine format and traded it in for celebrity/gossip news.
My weekly news magazine of choice? The Economist. It’s smart and makes me feel smarter. It’s sassy, but devoted to hard news and biting analysis.
Still, [...]