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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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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....

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...

Press Herald For Sale - For Sure

by Jeff Inglis | March 17, 2008
In August 2006, we used the above graphic to illustrate a story called " Press Herald For Sale? " in which I posited that all signs were pointing to an impending sale of the Portland Press Herald , and quoted owner Frank Blethen as asking, in...

Four Press Herald layoffs today; 11 more to come

by Jeff Inglis | March 11, 2008
There will be layoffs at the Portland Press Herald , costing 15 people their jobs, according to a report on the paper's Web site . Four of the layoffs happened today , according to the Newspaper Guild Local 128 Web site, the site of the union representing...