It’s been a bad year for newspaper standalone business sections, observes Grumpy Editor. They are disappearing as one of several vital components of daily newspapers.Latest to eliminate a standalone business section (by month’s end) is The Baltimore Sun, a Tribune Co. newspaper. Chris Roush, who writes Talking Biz News, reports that two pages of business news will move inside another Sun section but the Sunday consumer section will survive as a standalone.Roush, who keeps a tally of such... Read Full Story
It’ll be interesting to see how things work out for the daily Orange County (Calif.) Register which is outsourcing some copy editing and page layout work starting next week to Mindworks Global Media, based near New Delhi, India, says Grumpy Editor.Taking a cautious approach with a one-month trial, John Fabris, a Register deputy editor, mentions his staff will not be affected. Plans call for Mindworks --- 8,000 miles from Orange County --- editing some Register stories and performing layout... Read Full Story
It’ll be interesting to see how things work out for the daily Orange County (Calif.) Register which is outsourcing some copy editing and page layout work starting next week to Mindworks Global Media, based near New Delhi, India, says Grumpy Editor.
Taking a cautious approach with a one-month trial, John Fabris, a Register deputy editor, mentions his staff will not be affected.
Plans call for Mindworks --- 8,000 miles from Orange County --- editing some Register stories and performing layout... Read Full Story
Grumpy Editor is taking the day off to celebrate Independence Day.
That includes a barbecue in the afternoon and fireworks in the evening.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is running out of ways to say how close the U.S. is to a recession, notes Grumpy Editor.It’s getting to be a monthly task.Latest came on Tuesday ---- as the Federal Open Market Committee in Washington started the first day of a two-day meeting discussing interest rates, among other things --- when Reuters reported from Johannesburg that the former Fed chief, in a video link to a conference, declared, “We are on the brink” (of a recession) and... Read Full Story
