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New York Daily News’s number-two editor, Michael Cooke, will return to the Chicago Sun-Times after less than a year on the New York paper, Media Life reports. While it is an alleged shoe fetish on Cooke’s part that is getting the most press, circulation problems are also in evidence: the News’s circ continues to slide - down 27,000 to 688,584 in the most recent six-month period over the previous year - and rival New York Post is gaining, up to 672,731.
Cooke came under fire last summer when an article he had written for the Daily News was reprinted after having run almost identically in the Sun-Times in 2004, Editor & Publisher reports. It was The New York Post that pointed out the previous publication, stating that, while it couldn’t be considered plagiarism since Cooke authored both pieces, it still brought his credibility into question.
Cooke is returning to the Sun-Times as editorial director for the paper and its sister papers.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
