USA TODAY: USA TODAY will merge its newspaper and online newsrooms to create a single news operation, the newspaper and website's publishers announced Monday. "What I'm basically here to tell you today is there no longer is going to be a dot-com newsroom. There no longer is going to be a print newsroom. There is one newsroom," USA TODAY President and Publisher Craig Moon told USA TODAY staffers. "I think it's a …
When Old-Fashioned Letter Writing Fails…
NYT: A full-page advertisement - set to appear in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call today - pleads with Congress to pay for stronger levees in the devasted city of New Orleans. It also reminds the lawmakers that things are far from normal in a city where block after block remains ghostly and dark. "Since the breakdown of the New Orleans flood protection system on August 29, 2005, we have lived like refugees in our …
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Folino Moves Inland
Lewis Lazare: DDB/Chicago scoured the world for months and on Monday came up with Michael Folino to succeed Bob Scarpelli as chief creative officer at the city's second-largest agency. Folino starts his new job in early January. Folino's selection is risky for a few reasons. Folino did not grow up in the DDB culture, and the majority of his experience in the ad industry has been on the West Coast, where the agency …
Giving Everyone A Seat At The Table (Now There’s An Idea)
Influx Insights: Le Pain Quotidien is Belgian bakery/restaurant chain with around 60 stores worldwide, it has US locations in New York and Los Angeles. Apart from bringing the European bakery tradition to the US, it also places a large emphasis on its communal table. The giant tables are focal points for the stores and are embedded in the brand's philosophy. Communal tables are not new, but they have mainly been …
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Housing Manhattan’s Creative Class
Kevin McKeon of Strawberry Frog was profiled by The New York Times last week. No, not for his wicked creative skills. The Gray Lady chose to chronicle his leave-the-city, return-to-the-city odyssey. After a long winter (in Connecticut), Mr. McKeon was restless. "I never thought I'd admit it, but I miss being a big shot at my job," he wrote in his newspaper column for The Lakeville Journal. "And all that comes with …
Hugh Calls Hugh “An Unusual Character”
Hugh Fraser offers a podcast interview with Robert Scoble and Hugh MacLeod, together for the Geek dinner at The Texas Embassy in London. …
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Reality Shows Have Writers? I Don’t Get It.
MSNBC: More than 1,000 TV writers want their benefits to catch up with scribes of comedies and dramas, and about a dozen of their representatives interrupted a discussion with the entertainment presidents of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN and the WB at the Waldorf Astoria last month. They dumped leaflets on hotel’s banquet hall tables and Susan Baronoff, an Emmy-winning writer for “Starting Over” and other shows, climbed …
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If You Communicate, You’re In The Media Business.
Author and journalist, Randall Rothenberg, writing in Ad Age: Personal production technologies help realize a vision many of us have been propounding for years: that all companies, no matter their core field, will have to have expertise in two businesses: their own, and the media business. Hear hear. …
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Green Is Good
Business Week: Can a car company really be called green? Sure, the notion may seem far-fetched. But if anyone can, it might be Toyota. The Japanese auto maker has gotten great mileage lately out of its Prius gasoline/electric hybrid. Toyota has sold over 400,000 of these fuel-sippers and is now expanding its hybrid lineup by at least 10 other vehicles. Less well known are Toyota's efforts to reduce emissions from …
Putting The Dough In Donut
USA Today: A group of three private equity firms is expected to announce today a deal to buy food chain operator Dunkin' Brands for about $2.4 billion, a source familiar with the matter says. The three firms involved are said to be Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners. The Dunkin' Brands management team is expected to stay in place, the source said. French beverage company Pernod Ricard is …