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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Michael "Brownie" Brown: "Hurricane Sandy should teach all of us to chill"
Posted by Kevin Allman on Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper decided to ask Michael "Brownie" Brown's opinion on Hurricane Sandy, and the paper got it:
Federal agencies such as FEMA have a role. FEMA’s is to be that “honest broker” between the states and various localities.
Brownie does not know what "honest broker" means.
But at the end of the day, it is still each of us, as individuals, who are responsible for our own safety and well-being.
But not, apparently, our own Baton Rouge restaurant reservations.
On national television Tuesday, I told New Yorkers they needed to “chill.”
And you didn't get kicked in the nuts by a cameraman? New York, you disappoint me.
Below the fold: Canadians thank the Globe & Mail for providing Brownie insights.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Jindal to chair Republican Governors Association in 2013
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:14 PM
- GAGE SKIDMORE/CREATIVE COMMONS
- Gov. Bobby Jindal, speaking at the 2011 Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C.
The Republican Governors Association is a great means for a governor to build a national fundraising apparatus in advance of a presidential campaign. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry both headed up the organization in advance of their 2012 presidential campaigns, while former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty served as vice chairman of the RGA.
Under the jump: Jindal gets spanked by the Des Moines Register editorial board for injecting himself into Iowa politics last week, while The Hayride makes the case that helping to defeat President Barack Obama is the best thing Jindal could do for the state.
Monday, September 24, 2012
The Advocate kicks off New Orleans edition with reception at Rock 'n' Bowl
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:54 PM
- Advocate New Orleans bureau staffers met the press this morning at Rock 'n' Bowl. From left: publisher David Manship; reporters Kari Dequine Harden and Danny Monteverde; bureau chief Sara Pagones; sportswriter Ted Lewis; sales director Sara Barnard; reporter Allen Powell; and photographer John McCusker.
Gregory Rusovich, chair-elect of Greater New Orleans Inc., and Suzanne Mestayer, chair of the Business Council of New Orleans, were among the community leaders on hand to welcome the Baton Rouge paper into the market. "Economically, our region has the hot hand," Rusovich told the crowd, adding, "We deserve a daily paper, and thanks to The Advocate and the Manship family, we will have that daily newspaper."
Advocate publisher David Manship was there to introduce the staff of the New Orleans bureau, all of whom were former Times-Picayune staffers: bureau chief Sara Pagones; reporters Kari Dequine Harden, Danny Monteverde and Allen Powell; photographer John McCusker; sportswriter Ted Lewis; and Sara Barnard, head of sales for the New Orleans bureau. Carl Redman, executive editor for the Baton Rouge paper, was also on hand. In the back of the room were former T-P columnist Angus Lind and former City Hall reporter Frank Donze, both of whom had stopped by to check out the scene.
"It's exciting and nervewracking all at the same time," Monteverde said. "I think we'll do well, though it may take us a while to get our land legs."
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Newspaper war! NOLA Media Group goes into Advocate territory
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:47 PM
In response to the cutbacks at The Times-Picayune, the Advocate of Baton Rouge has opened a bureau and will begin printing a New Orleans edition Monday. Now — en garde, y'all! — the T-P strikes back, announcing it will expand its Baton Rouge bureau and begin distributing a Red Stick version of the T-P, as well as create a Baton Rouge-focused landing page for NOLA.com:
A customized Baton Rouge version of the NOLA.com website and a Baton Rouge edition of The Times-Picayune, as well as targeted home delivery in the Baton Rouge metro area will be in place by the end of the year, said Ricky Mathews, NOLA Media Group president. The company will also make available for purchase in Baton Rouge the new "Black and Gold Extra" publication to be printed after Saints games on days The Times-Picayune doesn't publish a print edition. The Black and Gold Extra launches Oct. 1 with complete coverage of the Saints game against the Green Bay Packers and other NFL coverage.
The Baton Rouge managing editor will be Carlos Sanchez, a veteran journalist who may be able to feel the pain of all the fired Times-Pic employees — he was laid off as editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald in Texas last year.
Advocate publisher David Manship is said to be in meetings right now; we'll update this post with his reaction.
UPDATE: Here's Manship's statement on the move:
"The Advocate will begin home delivery of its New Orleans edition throughout the metropolitan regional area on Oct. 1. We are excited to provide a printed, local daily newspaper to the New Orleans area — and the response we have received to date has been very strong.NOLA Media Group announced today that they will open a Baton Rouge bureau to report on Baton Rouge news. We wish them well with their new venture in Baton Rouge as we begin providing New Orleans with a new daily printed newspaper."
Tom Benson makes Forbes' list of wealthiest Americans
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Tom Benson expanded his New Orleans sports monopoly by purchasing the NBA's Hornets for $338 million in April 2012. Unfortunately, his football team, the Saints, has been mired in scandal surrounding a pay-for-injury "bounty" program coordinated by former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. Benson also offered to buy the Times-Picayune newspaper after its corporate owners decided to cut back the print edition to three issues per week. His other New Orleans ventures include auto dealerships, the city's FOX television affiliate, and real estate, including the newly renamed Benson Tower.
The "corporate owners" to whom Forbes refers also made the list. Donald Newhouse was ranked No. 51 with an estimated boodle of $6.6 billion:
Donald Newhouse oversees the newspaper portion of Advance Publications, which runs local papers in more than 25 American cities. In the face of continued pressures on the newspaper industry Advance began to reduce the number of print edition published each week for a number of their papers .In October the Times-Picayune will publish three printed issues a week, making New Orleans the largest American city without a daily paper. Brother "S.I." or "Si" takes care of magazines under the Condé Nast banner.
And S.I. Newhouse came in just ahead at No. 46, with $7.4 billion.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The state of customer care at The Times-Picayune
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM
"Easy Pay" (credit card and checking account autodebit) subscribers to The Times-Picayune got a letter today from director of circulation Philip H. Ehrhardt, explaining the paper's new price point when it goes to thrice-weekly publication starting Oct. 1. It's going from $18.95 per week to $16.95 for what's being called an "enhanced" paper. (The website Dump the Picayune has scanned a copy of the letter.)
Ehrhardt tells subscribers with questions to visit the NOLA Media Group's customer care page at www.nola.com/customercare ... which is where you'll find this:
On the T-P's subscription page, you can still subscribe to the 7-day edition, which is going away in two weeks, but there's still no 3-day option:
In other newspapering news, The Advocate — which begins distributing its new New Orleans edition Monday — is having a kickoff party Monday at 10:30 a.m. at Rock 'n' Bowl. Its subscription page seems to be working.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
David Carr on The Times-Picayune changeover
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:11 PM
- DEB GALANT/CREATIVE COMMONS
For this week’s cover story, “Paper Cuts,” I spoke to many people about The Times-Picayune’s upcoming transition to thrice-weekly publishing and a concentration on online news gathering.
One of the people to whom I spoke was David Carr, who writes about media, business and culture for The New York Times — and who originally broke the story about the New Orleans paper’s transition. Carr is a fun interview — he refers to newspapering as “putting the white paper out to get the green paper back” — and much of what he said didn’t make the final article. So here’s some extra Carr on the Picayune situation.
• On the prospect of The Times-Picayune going completely online and entirely paperless in a few years:
“You’re [New Orleans] not really ringed by a great retail gold mine that would make for a great Sunday product. I don’t think that Newhouse has committed to print. The whole industry is going to a paperless business. … I would not be surprised to see them eliminate the print product.”
• On NOLA.com becoming the primary mode of Advance's news distribution:
“If you look at their web product broadly — that turns out to be a significant error. When it comes to [newspaper/website] integration, which they’re putting on a forced march, they have a very long way to go, with a staff and a technology that is probably not on par with a lot of American newspapers in digital terms. They can talk all they want about the traffic on the New Orleans site. What does it mean if you can’t search what you have?”
Friday, September 7, 2012
The Advocate publisher on the paper's plans to move into New Orleans
Posted by Kevin Allman on Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:02 PM
"We definitely need more than 1,000," he told Gambit this morning. "I'd like to get 20,000. But we're looking at 5,000 to 10,000, and I think that’s easily obtainable based on the response we got yesterday."
The Advocate's push into the New Orleans market, of course, is in response to The Times-Picayune's scaling back to thrice-weekly publication as of Oct. 1, concentrating its news gathering online at NOLA.com under the name NOLA Media Group.
"We still believe in the printed newspaper every day," Manship said. "We don’t doubt the importance of digital — we have a website and an app; we even have an e-edition, so we feel like we are there. We just felt like the people of New Orleans were very strong toward their reading of the Picayune seven days a week. So we thought we’d step in and fill the void."
Under the cut: Manship discusses distribution, advertisers, and office space for The Advocate's new New Orleans bureau ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
David Manship: "We think New Orleans and its citizens deserve a quality newspaper printed each and every day, and we intend to provide one"
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Good Afternoon, as the Publisher of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, my family has been providing a daily newspaper to the citizens of Louisiana since the early 1900s. In fact, like the newspaper in New Orleans, The Advocate’s origins date back 170 years to 1842. And like New Orleanians, the citizens of Baton Rouge demand quality journalism and are accustomed to receiving it in the form of a daily newspaper. We are proud to meet that demand.
We recognize that the way people get their news is changing. And we will keep up with these changes by delivering news in all the different formats our subscribers use, including print. As trends evolve, The Advocate will continue to deliver a daily, printed newspaper to our subscribers.
Changes in the way The Times-Picayune gathers and reports news have revealed that there is a demand for a daily newspaper in New Orleans that will not be met by any New Orleans publications, beginning October 1, 2012. This would end a 175-year tradition of delivering a daily newspaper to New Orleanians and make New Orleans the largest city in the U.S. without a daily printed paper. At The Advocate, we think New Orleans and its citizens deserve a quality newspaper printed each and every day, and we intend to provide one.
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