Tribune Publishing’s new name has prompted lots of side-eye on Twitter (as Gannett did when it switched to TEGNA). Naturally, this led me to a name game.
Game idea: Take the 1st part of your news org's name, mash with a scifi movie or TV show, lower case and GO! pic.twitter.com/i28BYGH3Pt
— Kristen Hare (@kristenhare) June 3, 2016
Here are some of the new names we heard. I’ve styled some of these a la that Nickelodeon font (h/t to Margaret Lyons for spotting that).
From The Deal’s Baz Hiralal:
I went with anime @kristenhare @Poynter pic.twitter.com/qZH5Qw7028
— Baz Hiralal (@_BizBaz) June 3, 2016
From USA TODAY’s Andrew P. Scott:
From the Roanoke Times Sports desk:
From Management Today’s Jack Torrance:
From WBUR’s Nick Andersen:
From The Washington Post’s Brian Cleveland:
Also from Cleveland:
And from the Sun Star’s Isolde Amante, two options:
From Digital Trends’ Michael Epstein:
@kristenhare pic.twitter.com/zZhqg5c6O9
— Michael Epstein (@bombur) June 3, 2016
From The Free Press’ Wes Wolfe:
From The Boston Globe’s Amanda Katz:
Medill’s Owen R. Youngman emailed a few newsroom + tech mashups for The (Bloomington Indiana) Herald-Times and The (Bloomington, Illinois) Pantagraph:
From the Associated Press’ Michael Biesecker:
@kristenhare @AP pic.twitter.com/zGsb3oArBx
— Michael Biesecker (@mbieseck) June 3, 2016
From Steve Auerweck, formerly of The Baltimore Sun:
@kristenhare Formerly The Baltimore Sun, now … pic.twitter.com/1H15pRkmBP
— Steve Auerweck (@Auerweck) June 3, 2016
From Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Philip Maramba:
.@kristenhare Here's our (my) entry for @wvgazettemail pic.twitter.com/kFDwLaZzqw
— Philip Maramba (@PhilipMaramba) June 3, 2016
From Daily Herald Media Group’s Tim Broderick:
From the Burlington Times-News’ Anna Johnson:
@kristenhare For The Times-News in Burlington N.C. pic.twitter.com/Rz55VW5Wz9
— Anna Johnson (@Anna_M_Johnson) June 3, 2016
From Winston-Salem Journal’s Arika Herron:
From Bangor Daily News’ Bill Trotter:
From Voice Media Group’s Jerry Iannelli:
Allison Kaplan Sommer, who writes for Haaretz, shared this one:
Got a news org name for this new media age? Tweet or email it and I’ll add it to the list. You can Nickelodeon it here.
