BRIEFING| St. Patrick’s Day
Posted by Ed on March 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 1938
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I saw Laurie Besanceney Magee yesterday and have since been remembering the old St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at the old Snuffy’s pub in Saranac Lake. Kyle Munn used to charge five cents a beer in the day’s opening hours. Laurie, Lavin and I got to the pub right after our 11 a.m. Enterprise deadline in 2003 and pretty much stayed there all day. We banked copy for the March 18 paper I think. Ah the good, old days…
• And that’s what they’re saying in Seattle, where the Hearst-Owned Post-Intelligencer folded today after 146 years of service. Here’s the paper’s final Page One:
About 20 staffers will stay on to publish a web-only edition. Hundreds more have lost their jobs. The Post-Intelligencer is the first major metropolitan daily to fold onto the Internet. It’s a big experiment for Hearst and one that many in our industry will be watching with hopeful eyes. More on this change over from thePIand from the Times.
• Alumni of the Rocky Mountain News, which folded Feb. 27, have continued on at I Want My Rocky, a site originally organized to preserve the paper. Now the site’s editors plan to relaunch on May 4 as InDenverTimes, an-internet only newspaper. Visit I Want My Rocky to subscribe. It’s $4.99 per month, far cheaper than a paper subscription.
• Elsewhere in the Times is this dissection from Eric Etheridge of Clay Shirky’s assertion that a media revolution in which newspapers will prove casualties is underway.
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