Subject: Newspapers

• Big Surprise: Conservative Columnists Dominate Texas Newspapers

  October 1, 2007

• Solidarity, Baby

  October 23, 2007

• Get Lit: Houston History, Now in Handy Book Form!

  November 27, 2007

• Chronicle, San Antonio Paper May Share "Generic" Features

  August 13, 2008

• If Six Were Nine

  The Chron cooks the books for a circulation boast

  November 15, 2001

• The Houston/San Antonio Chronicle-Express Takes Another Step Forward

  Hey, copy editors and page designers at the San Antonio Express!!Like your jobs? Then you better hope you like Houston.A memo to staff from Express editor Robert Rivard offers more details on the coming consolidation of operations between the Express and the Houston Chronicle, both Hearst newspapers.A lot of things remain to be worked out, but Rivard says the San Antonio paper will be producing a lot of non-news sections in Houston.

  November 25, 2008

• "100 Days Of Change" Coming To The Houston Chronicle

  Hearst is the privately owned company that owns a ton of magazines, TV stations and newspapers, including our very own Houston Chronicle.The longtime head of Hearst's newspaper division recently retired; the guy who replaced him has sent out a long memo to employees full of doom and gloom and re-invention.The entire memo is way too long if the Hearst company is not issuing your paycheck, but there are some highlights.

  December 17, 2008

• Seeds of Trouble, Part II

  September 15, 1994

• Visible Man

  February 16, 1995

• Post Mortem

  April 27, 1995

• Gerald and Me

  April 27, 1995

• PostScripts

  May 4, 1995

• Letters

  May 18, 1995

• Letters

  February 15, 1996

• Excellence Honored

  April 24, 1997

• Department of Self-Promotion

  November 13, 1997

• This week signals a change in leadership at the Houston Press.

  February 19, 1998

• Good Lord, The Chronicle's Owner Is On A Paper-Killing Rampage

  Photo by shashiBellamkondaHere's some shocking news, if you're a journalist -- the Hearst Corporation, owners of the Houston Chronicle, are threatening to shut down the San Francisco Chronicle.Sure, it sounds like posing in relation to upcoming union negotiations, but who knows these days? The privately held company sure sounds like it's playing hardball, according to the San Francisco paper (reporting on itself): The Hearst Corp. today announced an effort to reverse the deepening operating loss

  February 24, 2009

• Don't Make Me Beg

  The rumor mill has it that AOL Sports is about to start hiring beat reporters to cover the various sports in the professional leagues. This is supposed to be like what Yahoo! and CBS Sportsline have done - those of you who have read those sites know how those work. It's just like with the newspapers, there will be a reporter assigned to cover the team, and that person will write every day about that team. Supposedly, they're hunting writers from newspapers, and since a whole bunch of newspap

  March 5, 2009

• In the Line of Fire

  November 12, 1998

• Winning Efforts

  November 12, 1998

• New Boss

  November 26, 1998

• Chronicle Employees: Part Of "An Absolute Ton Of Fat"

  Photo courtesy wikipedia commonsHearst, the privately held company that owns the Houston Chronicle and is busy killing respected dailies in San Francisco and Seattle, has good news for its newspaper employees.They are part of "an absolute ton of fat" that has been built up over the years.That's the sympathetic analysis of Steven Swartz, the head of the company's newspaper division, as given at a seminar yesterday at Columbia University and reported in the Connecticut Post."The journalism and bus

  March 11, 2009

• Barney! Biz! Bluebonnets!

  February 4, 1999

• At The Chron: Where You Going With Those Boxes, Boy?

  Photo by laffy4kIt's been an excruciating five-week wait for employees of Houston's only daily newspaper who are scheduled to learn today and tomorrow if they still have jobs. As one nervous reporter described it on Twitter a few days ago, "Out working on plans B-through-F. Anything to take mind off impending Tuesday doom."Today, then, is Doomsday. To be followed Wednesday by Doomsday II.Yesterday, Chronicle executives told employees the latest round of layoffs at the newspaper, first announc

  March 24, 2009

• Chron Cuts: The Jeff Cohen Memo, More Names

  Here's Houston Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen's memo to the staff about Black Tuesday:TO: StaffFROM: Jeff CohenRE: Newsroom ReductionThe Chronicle employment cutback that Jack Sweeney has communicated to us began this morning. Each department in the newsroom is affected in one way or another.This is a sad day. A newsroom is like family and saying good-bye to so many good journalists is painful. Along with you, they hav

  March 24, 2009

• Some Thoughts On The Chronicle Cuts: So Long, Suburbs

  (Note: For a while, this item was posted with the wrong byline -- it's by Steve Olafson, not Richard Connelly, and always has been. Thanks, and sorry.)The layoffs at the Houston Chronicle cut much deeper into the editorial side of the newspaper than the announced company-wide 12 percent reduction that was announced by publisher Jack Sweeney. By the count of newsroom workers who survived, 27 percent of the paper's editorial staffers were let go yesterday.That amounts to 90 employees, they said

  March 25, 2009

• Former Editors On The Move

  May 25, 2000

• Don't Make Me Beg

  The rumor mill has it that AOL Sports is about to start hiring beat reporters to cover the various sports in the professional leagues. This is supposed to be like what Yahoo! and CBS Sportsline have done - those of you who have read those sites know how those work. It's just like with the newspapers, there will be a reporter assigned to cover the team, and that person will write every day about that team. Supposedly, they're hunting writers from newspapers, and since a whole bunch of newspap

  March 5, 2009

• Layoffs at the Houston Chronicle

  The Black-and-White Blues

  April 2, 2009

• Gallery Talk — Perspectives 164

  Web exclusive!

  January 8, 2009

• The Right Distance

  Web exclusive!

  April 16, 2009

• Raymond Benson and Alan J. Porter

  Web exclusive!

  November 27, 2008

• Angel in the Midwest

  Former Post editor Garcia lands in Illinois

  September 5, 2002

• Praise the Lord, Pass the Copy

  Pat Robertson gets rebuffed by the Post ... or did he?

  January 19, 1995

• Paper Chase

  June 1, 2006

• Jerry Payne, attorney and ex-strip club owner, vs. the IRS and the Houston Chronicle

  The Long Shot

  April 26, 2007

• CRACKED UP

  Gary Webb's reporting on CIA ties to cocaine destroyed his life, too

  October 5, 2006

• Awards Time

  Press staffer wins first place in regional contest

  November 17, 2005

• The Press: 15 Rounds and Counting

  A decade and a half of devilish deeds and die-hard journalism

  May 5, 2005

• Ready for a Rumbo?

  News wars return as two Spanish papers go mano a mano

  November 11, 2004

• Best New Magazine

  Rap Illustrated

  September 25, 2003

• Best Newsstand

  Globe News

  September 20, 2001

• Hard to Say Good-bye

  Economic woes hit the Chronicle, and job cuts are coming

  September 6, 2001

• Awards

  Houston Press staffers get honors

  August 2, 2001

• Happy Hearst

  The Chronicle's publisher gives a pep talk, and looks to expand

  February 15, 2001

• Calling All Scabs

  Hearst looks to Houston for strikebreakers

  November 30, 2000

• Insider

  Unhappy Talk TV. At KHOU, the hit tune is "Take This Job and Shove It!"

  September 16, 1999

• News Hostage

  April 1, 1999

• The Chronicle Continues Its Descent Into Porn Hell

  Photo by Chanel JoyYou know, we really, really want to keep ignoring the incredibly silly "MILF" sex column the Houston Chronicle puts out on its oh-so-hip 29-95 website, but it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous.Here's the state of American journalism, 2009: the daily newspaper in a major city thinks the way to get readers is to publish a column headlined "Yes, It Does Matter: One Woman's Lament For Tiny Dicks."Talking about staring into the abyss of edginess.Among the reasons ci

  May 5, 2009