All entries tagged: Russ Stanton

Denise Searle: Blogging or flogging? Why NGOs face challenges in embracing the Internet’s potential

[The Internet opens up new means of communications for major NGOs. But does it also make their position vulnerable to a new breed of web-native upstarts, who understand the power of technology more fully? Denise Searle, who has worked with some of the world's best known NGOs, explores that in this, the final part of [...]

Forget bad journalism. The LAT front page ad is bad advertising

Almost all of the hand-wringing about this week’s front-page Los Angeles Times ad has been focused on journalists, and how hard this is for them to swallow.
“There is not an editor in this nation — including me — who really wants to see something like that on the front page of his or her publication,” [...]

4 comments | Posted by Tim Windsor | April 10, 2009 | 7:25 am

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Los Angeles Times editor chats about cuts in his newsroom with predecessor who resisted them

Jim O’Shea was fired as editor of The Los Angeles Times in January 2008 for resisting staff cuts. His successor, Russ Stanton, has trimmed nearly 300 positions from the newsroom as Tribune Co. attempts to crawl out from under its crushing load of debt. On Monday night, I coaxed the two of them into an [...]

4 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | March 11, 2009 | 8:44 am

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