New York Daily News
Wood War Is Over (If You Want It)
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria ... and this! Tim Arango at The Times is reporting something that was probably once unfathomable but utterly plausible in today's bleak, sad newspaper climate: Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman are negotiating a plan to combine some back offices to ease operating costs for The New York Post and the Daily News.
He reports:
Lawyers for both newspapers are trying to find a structure for an agreement that would not require signing a Joint Operating Agreement — a mechanism other papers have used that would require creating a separate entity with a separate board and essentially mean merging all business functions while maintaining separate newsrooms. read more »
Report: Judge Throws Out Jared Paul Stern Lawsuits
The Associated Press is reporting that the defamation lawsuit brought by former New York Post writer Jared Paul Stern against Ron Burkle, The New York Daily News, and Bill and Hillary Clinton has been dismissed by State Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub. (This comes via Jim Romenesko.)
In April 2006, The Observer's Choire Sicha profiled Mr. Stern at his Catskills cottage and reported on his book deal which was subsequently cancelled .
A Very Local Angle On Times Climb-gate Story
While The New York Daily News and The New York Post had identical takes on yesterday's double publicity stunt at The New York Times Building, one Post employee managed to find a new angle on the story. Herself. read more »
King Thong! The Best of the Jason Giambi Headlines
Yankees slugger Jason Giambi admitted to Portfolio's Franz Lidz that when he goes into a slump he wears a lucky thong. Not a jockstrap. A thong. Sometimes when other Yankees go into slumps—like Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robinson Cano and Robin Ventura—they've worn his tiger-striped thong too.
And here's how the papers and blogs headlined it over the weekend: read more »
Daily News Tops Post on Circ Figures
The New York Daily News reclaimed the title of New York's most read tabloid this morning. The Audit Bureau of Circulations released a study of daily average circulation over a six month period, ending on September 30, that showed the News had over taken the New York Post.
The News had a daily circulation rate of 681,415 (down from 693,423 last year); The Post had 667,119 (down from 704,011 last year).
Last year, the Post bragged about beating the News, so expect some payback tomorrow.
Rocking Deck at Daily News
The roof of the Daily News remains intact. But, according to several News staffers, if it’s not the roof, it’s the floorboards. read more »
They Stoop for Quarters
Rival tabloid editors’ latest price-chop catfight. read more »
Is $8 Enough?
Daily News columnist Errol Louis gave a peek inside a reporter’s mind--and wallet--at Thursday morning’s PlaNYC panel at the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs, when he asked:
“If you are someone like me--I’ll plead guilty--who has press plates and you do have to drive in, because the story that you work on that day might be on Staten Island, or it might be in the Bronx, and you actually don’t know until it happens and so forth--the $8 doesn’t seem like a disincentive to me. Frankly, it’s not high enough.” read more »
