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What's that president-elect guy's name?

by Jeff Inglis | November 18, 2008

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Oddly, WCSH 6's September 10 207 show blows up nationally

by Jeff Inglis | September 12, 2008

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Seriously? WCSH 6 doubts global warming?

by Jeff Inglis | September 10, 2008
I swear I'm stone cold sober, but I still am worried that I'm outright hallucinating. Flipping channels tonight, I hit on WCSH 6 just as the 207 show was opening up. And Cindy Williams (filling in tonight for Kathleen Shannon) compared complaints...

Hate crime update

by Jeff Inglis | September 10, 2008

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NBC Nightly News asks: Press Herald's 'final edition?'

by Jeff Inglis | August 29, 2008

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A little insider info from the PPH

by Jeff Inglis | August 26, 2008

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A daily paper notices our prison series!

by Jeff Inglis | August 19, 2008

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Spoon-fed drivel for lazy reporters

by Jeff Inglis | July 21, 2008
You will undoubtedly see a great deal of media coverage of the upcoming Beach to Beacon road race, slated for Saturday, August 2, in Cape Elizabeth. But the dirty little secret the newspapers and TV stations never tell you is that many of those stories...

PPH has Web woes

by Jeff Inglis | July 01, 2008
UPDATE: Just before 11 am, the Tuesday news went live on the Press Herald 's site. For an organization that at least periodically claims to be looking to the Web as a key to the future, the Portland Press Herald is having a pretty rough few days....

I'm just "hardwired" to like vacuuming!

by Deirdre Fulton | June 24, 2008
Gosh, Kathleen Parker's op-ed in today's PPH [I can't find it on their website, so I'm linking to the syndicated column from another paper] really set me straight. I'm totally just going to chill out about all this gender-equality...

OMFG Maine

by Sharon Steel | June 06, 2008
Truly, life gets more amazing every day. Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the Gossip Girl YA book series that was then adapted into the BSE , is working on her first adult series, according to Hyperion . Due out in 2009, the series (first book is called...

35 more layoffs at Press Herald

by Jeff Inglis | May 30, 2008
No sooner did I post the last entry than into my e-mail box came a copy of the latest newsletter from Robert Bickler, the general manager of the Blethen Maine Newspapers, leading with this little gem: General Manager’s Update: Owing to a continuation...

Press Herald union won't buy the paper

by Jeff Inglis | May 30, 2008
Crosscut Seattle is reporting some fascinating info on the prospects for a buyer of the Blethen Maine Newspapers (the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram , Central Maine Morning Sentinel , and Kennebec Journal , plus mainetoday.com and ancillary...

Blethen bad news gets worse

by Importer | March 27, 2008
We know the news hasn't been good for the Seattle Times folks of late, or for their soon-to-be ex-colleagues at the Blethen Maine Newspapers (the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram , Kennebec Journal , and Morning Sentinel ). It's been bad for a while...

Press Herald sale - who would buy?

by Jeff Inglis | March 18, 2008
UPDATE: With Crosscut Seattle story link ( also here ). Definitely read that story - it has great analysis and some new ideas of who might buy the papers - including a possibility of the union taking it employee-owned. Yesterday's announcement that...