Haha so, funny story, we need to hire another creative and capable advertising executive to grow our media sales team.
Could that be you? Would you relish the opportunity to work with some very important and powerful bloggers and politico/media types?
We’re obviously a flourishing media operation with trillions of dedicated readers per day so it’ll […]

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Sometimes you get so busy you just look up at the calendar and realize a whole year has gone by.
I guess that’s how Jake and I missed realizing that yesterday was our media operation’s first birthday. It was Aug. 13, 2007 that we launched Page One and re-launched The ‘Ville Voice. Our goal was, […]

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Both the New Albany Tribune and the Jeffersonville Evening News named new publishers today.
The papers, just across the Ohio and often the training ground for Louisville reporters, are owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI), which political fans around here know as the home of reporter and commenter Ronnie Ellis.
Both new publishers were promoted from […]

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John Timmons doesn’t understand himself how ear X-tacy is turning 23 this week.
When he opened the store in 1985 and CDs were the next big thing, “I didn’t think anybody was going to go for it,” he says. So Timmons kept selling records. He also thought that 8-tracks would outlast cassettes.
Ear X-tacy is still open, […]

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Finally, with Felner: The C-J gave us a three-week head start in covering the Robert Felner fiasco at U of L, but now has put together front-page stories back-to-back and even penned an editorial on the matter. Meanwhile, we can’t believe Pres. James Ramsey’s continued support of Felner in light of the controversy. […]

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Headline writers are having some fun with this story — Gannett stock has plunged to an 18-year low.
According to the Washington Business Journal story,  shares fell 6.5 percent, down to 1990 levels, after an analyst cut profit and stock price estimates today.  He based that opinion on two old favorites — rising newsprint costs and […]

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A new twist: Looks like WLKY-TV is taking the midday news another step forward. Posted at 12:43 today, the station’s web site has John Boel promoting three stories the station is tracking — the Indiana road rage incidents, the Somalian man who killed his children, and an ACLU protest of tasers. Later on, the station […]

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Rep. John Yarmuth is bringing $200,000 in federal funds to the Russell neighborhood for a small business incubator.
The incubator is at 1336 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd, and is expected to provide jobs for the poor and disadvantaged in the West End. That’s a good thing.
It will provide space for up to 12-15 new businesses and […]

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Note from Rick: This piece on the Keep Louisville Weird campaign is written by Kim Williams, our newest intern. Be Nice!
by Kim Williams
That “Keep Louisville Weird” slogan is pretty cool and catchy, but you might wonder if the quirky ad campaign really does any good for local businesses.
One way to find out is to attend […]

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The words of Bob Hill keep coming back to me: “I think people are going to be fed up with being asked what they think.”
That’s what Hill said in an interview about the way newspapers are changing. Whether you subscribe to his theory or not, there’s no denying that the push for consumer participation in […]

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