Andrew Beaujon
May 8, 2013
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 30, 2013
10:23 pm
The Advocate |
The Times-Picayune
Former New Orleans Times-Picayune managing editors Dan Shea and Peter Kovacs will serve as General Manager and Editor, respectively, of the Baton Rouge Advocate, which
announced it had been purchased by New Orleans businessman John Georges Tuesday night. Current Advocate Executive Editor Carl Redman will remain as senior editor, The Advocate's announcement says.
The news would seem to signal a newspaper war in Louisiana.
Shea and Kovacs were
ousted by the Times-Picayune last year as it prepared to reduce print frequency and staff.
"This was too good a prospect to pass up: we're preserving local ownership of great newspaper, showing how the trend to digital is not incompatible with seven-day print, and bringing our enthusiasm and experience to a great staff," Shea wrote in an email to Poynter Tuesday night.
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 1, 2013
12:43 pm
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Carlie Kollath Wells
Feb. 19, 2013
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 3, 2013
8:47 am
The Baltimore Sun is publishing a special edition to be distributed to New Orleans-area hotels this weekend. Sun spokesperson Renee Mutchnik told Poynter the edition will comprise the front and sports pages of the daily (Sunday's will include a special game day section). The paper is printing 3,000 copies of the paper Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Houma, La.
Plus: "When we win, not if, we will also have some on Monday," Mutchnik said. That edition will have 1,000 extra copies; Mutchnik said the Tribune-owned paper will be available to hotel guests even if they are not Ravens fans.
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 7, 2013
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Andrew Beaujon
Dec. 13, 2012
9:58 am
WWNO
On the New Orleans radio show "Out to Lunch" Monday, Nola.com business manager David Francis said
The Times-Picayune's print circulation has gone up since it
cut print frequency. "I will tell you that we’ve been pleasantly pleased with what we’ve seen since Oct. 1. when we launched the three-day-a-week newspaper," he told host Peter Ricchiuti.
We’ve seen a significant growth on the online side ... But also from a circulation standpoint the passion you talked about for the paper, in the 175 years we’ve been producing it, has resulted in actually an increase in our circulation. So those who were concerned about what this may mean to the community in terms of the local content they were used to getting from the Times-Picayune have found themselves embracing us again. So when we issued our first publication after we went to the three-day cycle we saw people’s attitudes and behaviors change. To the point now that we’re very satisfied and we’ve exceeded our targets in terms of circulation.
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 26, 2012
2:46 pm
The Sentinel |
WHTM
The (Carlisle, Pa.) Sentinel and Harrisburg, Pa., TV station WHTM have
struck a content-sharing agreement that they think will give them an upper hand when the competing (Harrisburg) Patriot-News
goes to a three-day-per-week print schedule in January.
“There will be a real vacuum for people who like to read the newspaper seven days a week,” [WHTM] President and General Manager Joe Lewin said. “I think the regular subscribers to The Patriot-News feel abandoned, and I know that The Sentinel management sees this as a real opportunity.”
WHTM will provide the Sentinel with weather content, and both news organizations' stories can end up on both platforms. The Sentinel competes with the Patriot-News in Cumberland County, just west of Harrisburg.
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Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 8, 2012
11:14 am
WWL | Nieman Journalism Lab
New subscribers to the Baton Rouge Advocate's New Orleans edition are reporting problems with receiving their papers. "I really think they weren't prepared for the amount of subscribers that they got," subscriber Loretta Hamilton told WWL reporter Paul Murphy. Advocate New Orleans bureau chief Sara Pagones tells Murphy, "We've doubled our call center capacity."
"I think the waits are shorter than they were. I think that we had really felt we could get 10,000 subscribers. I don't think we anticipated getting 10,000 by today, which we have."
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Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 3, 2012
3:15 pm
Nola.com |
The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
The first "expanded" edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune appeared Wednesday, and Nola Media Group Editor for Print Terry Baquet and Director of Metro Content Mark Lorando
took questions online about the shift to a three-day-a-week print paper. The readers' concerns were mostly civil in tone and logistical -- will there be a paper the day after Saints games, where I can I find the puzzles, etc.?
Baquet and Lorando didn't shy from questions about what one participant called the Times-Picayune's "summer of carnage":
Several of you have asked about morale in the newsroom. The transition has been difficult for us and our readers. But as evidenced by our coverage in today's newspaper and all week at NOLA.com, our staff is proud to continue to do what we have been doing for 175 years: covering the hell out of our city.
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