<![CDATA[Deadspin: Newspapers]]> http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: Newspapers]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/newspapers http://deadspin.com/tag/newspapers <![CDATA[Soon-To-Be-Fired Newspaper Editor Puts A Big Old "Fuck" On Page 3C]]> You may want to avert your delicate sensibilities from today's Greenville (S.C.) News, because they accidentally printed a naughty not-for-old-people-who-still-subscribe-to-newspapers word in today's story about the SEC Title Game. It's easy to miss, subtly placed in the flow of the text, but look very closely at the third paragraph. "Fuck" is the third graf. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5864157&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Paper Illustrates Joe Frazier Tribute With Massive Photo Of George Foreman]]> The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's largest English-language newspaper, wasn't able to run its Joe Frazier tribute until today. All that lead-up wasn't enough time for someone who knows what Joe Frazier looks like to proof the pages. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5857836&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Today In Unfortunate Headline Apostrophe Placement]]> From the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette comes this doubletake-inducing headline on the start of football season. I'm sure it looked all nice and informal and innocuous in the sterile InDesign window, but when it actually gets put in a paper? A 48-point poop joke. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5837005&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[One Cross-Country Gal's Surname Must Be A Nightmare For Headline Writers]]> There's a high school cross country runner named Madz Negro who keeps making news due to her running prowess. This results in headlines from the Springfield, Ill. State Journal-Register like this. Or like this. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5643294&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[TV Says Internet Killing Newspaper]]> The man behind print sports journalism's largest failure is going to tell us why the Internet is usurping the local paper as your news source of choice. If you can still afford premium cable, Real Sports is on now! [HBO] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5360337&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[American Newspapers Can't Quite Afford Wimbledon Coverage]]> Filip Bondy reports that only eight papers — the usuals plus, uh, the S.F. Examiner? — sent tennis correspondents overseas, and some aren't even there yet. To be fair, though, that's one reporter for every 6.375 players. [Bondy via TBL] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302241&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rob Parker Is Detroit's Newest Unemployed Worker]]> I wonder if Rob Parker now wishes Rod Marinelli's daughter had married a career counselor, because she probably could have helped him find a new line of work. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5124869&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[This Is Why Conlin Rules]]> Even if he hates the pamphleteers: "If the printed page dies, there is no denying that the fatal wounds have been self-inflicted. There was an elitist smugness even in the press boxes of the 1960s, when Howard Cosell was just a radio nobody hustling for interviews in clubhouses filled with sports writers who treated him like a wad of gum stuck to the soles of their Florsheims. One of my early idols, Dick Young, railed at TV crews trolling for sound bites on his clubhouse turf. And this was before the Internet had a name or an existence. Now, with bloggers knocking down the walls, 24/7 sports radio and TV networks all around, sports writers still string quotes from day-old press conferences that have been cycled and recycled on radio and TV. Guys and gals, this isn't the '60s anymore." [Philly Daily News] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5106452&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Newspapers Are Revelant And Helpful, Particularly If You Like Ike]]> On Thanksgiving morning, I picked up a copy of the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer, the daily paper round those parts. I did it out of habit; I was eating an English muffin and needed something to do with my other hand. Whatever your thoughts about the newspaper industry, I think we can all agree that it's easier to pick up a newspaper with your left hand than type into a computer. If newspaper publishers could genetically fuse English muffins to everyone's right hands, the world of print journalism would look a lot different over the next few decades. Plus, your Kleenex would come lined with butter. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5100385&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jay Mariotti: Quits Chicago Sun-Times Before Struggling Newspaper Business "Takes Him Down With It"]]> Wow. Based on the enormous amount of emails flooding Deadspin's inbox, you would've thought that there was an assassination of a beloved sports figure or a towering inferno at Yankee Stadium. Nope. The reason for the deluge was because Jay Mariotti, after 17 years of vituperative hackdom, has decided to turn in his leaky pen and Remington portable and is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago Tribune caught up with Mariotti after he'd sent his letter of resignation to get the skinny on why, after recently signing a lucrative 3-year extension with the Sun-Times, he decided to leave:
Just back from Beijing, where he covered the Olympics, Mariotti said in a phone interview that he decided to quit after it became clear while in China that sports journalism had become "entirely a Web site business. There were not many newspapers there." He added that most of the journalists covering the Games were "there writing for Web sites." Mariotti, whose public battles with fellow staffers, team owners, managers, coaches and rival columnists are legendary, didn't disclose any specific plans except to say he will continue doing his regular stint on ESPN's "Around the Horn." He said he "is talking with a lot of Web sites" and added that the future of his business "sadly is not in newspapers."
I'm flabbergasted. More on this later today, obviously, but for now, let's marinate in this new reality: Jay Mariotti... Quits...Newspapers dying..."Talking to web sites"...head exploding. Jay Mariotti leaves the Sun-Times [Chicago Sun-Times] Controversial columnist Jay Mariotti resigns from Chicago Sun-Times [Chicago Tribune] Jay Mariotti resigns from his position at the Chicago Sun-Times [Awful Announcing] More »
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