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Baristanet's Debra Galant tore into the competition in this interview she did with StreetfightMag.com (via Romenesko). Here's the money quote:

"How do you regard Patch, generally? Do you think a company like…

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UPDATE: 9/3/10, 10am

In the battle to see who covers the DeCamp strike best, Baristanet pulls ahead. As I wrote yesterday, though they are the horse to beat, Baristanets more frequent coverage of the strike was edged out by Montclair Patch's reporting depth. Not so today. Baristanet dug deeper. Their posts yesterday on…

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Written at about 10am, 9/2/10... so feel free to update this in the comments if the coverage has changed...

These are exciting times to be in the media business in Montclair. It's just like the golden age of newspapers, but on a much smaller scale. Instead of the Herald Tribune vs the NY Times vs The World, it's Baristanet vs Montclair Patch vs The Montclair Times...

The recent Decamp strike seems to be the first true standard measure…

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Just heard John Hughes died.

If you're between about 33 and 43 and grew up in America then chances are John Hughes had an effect on you and the way you saw the world at that time. He was THE writer/director of the 80s. For those of us either in high school, jr high... or soon to enter, John Hughes played to us... and pretty much all of us loved it. He was kind of the Judd Apatow of his day, but less raunchy and a bit more subversive. Take a look at this run between 1983 and… Continue

THE ATLANTIC: “Journalism’s Problem Isn’t Gawker. It’s Advertising.”

August 3, 2009

BYLINE: MARC AMBINDER



“Bill Grueskin, the dean of academic affairs at the Columbia Journalism School and the former managing editor of WSJ.com, writes in Paid Content that the death of journalism is really a masquerade for the death of advertising, or at least the way we know it. Grueskin writes:



‘This is a huge problem facing journalism (and more generally, media),… Continue