June 2008


June 30, 2008

Pitching Gets in the Way of Pitching

A Farmington radio station interrupts a baseball game to advertise the local hospital. Also, other local media messes Read more »

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June 27, 2008

Bad Timing

A memo adds insult to injury at the Portland Press Herald Read more »

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June 26, 2008

Veterans Flee the Portland Press Herald

Reporters and others take voluntary termination deals at the Portland paper Read more »

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June 26, 2008

Soup Shakes Up Courier

Editors, reporters out at mid-coast weeklies. Read more »

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June 24, 2008

Goodbye Institutional Memory

One quarter of the Portland Press Herald’s reporters may be gone by July 1. Read more »

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June 23, 2008

Pain – or Public Relations – Management?

Odd comments from an injured Sun Journal reporter – and other Maine media developments Read more »

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At a Loss for Periods

June 19, 2008

At a Loss for Periods

The Irregular takes on the English language – and other foibles of the Maine media Read more »

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June 18, 2008

Blethen Files Suit Against Guild

Blethen Maine Newspapers claim language in the union contract is thwarting efforts to sell the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Read more »

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June 17, 2008

It Takes a Village...

...to buy a major chain of Maine weeklies. Village Net Media (aka Village Soup) buys Courier Publications Read more »

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June 13, 2008

Repeat Offender

The Blethen Maine Newspapers don’t get the conflict-of-interest thing. And other news of the Maine media Read more »

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