Wow. How is it USA Today can be more objective when it comes to the Ohio River Bridges Debacle than newspapers in Kentucky?
Authorities in Louisville and southern Indiana recently said tolls could generate more than half the $4.1 billion needed to build two new bridges across the Ohio River and refurbish a major highway [...]

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If what you told Phillip Bailey were true:
For starters, the newspaper didn’t initially schedule a sit-down with Democratic candidate Lisa Moxley, an odd decision considering Moxley fared slightly better in the C-J’s mayoral poll than Shannon White, one of her primary opponents.
“We made the decision about who to invite before we had a look at [...]

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You know, it’s a sad day for print journalism. Especially for those in the field who are employed by Gannett.
Why (aside from everything), you may be asking yourself?
Well, because of this.
Gannett folks are going through their unpaid first quarter furloughs and have been subject to salary freezes for more than a year. All [...]

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Mistakes happen all the time in all areas of print, but they’re usually not funny. But this story about Hogan’s Fountain involved a funny mistake.
Spotted on the front page of the Saturday, October 24, 2009 Metro section:
Forget Something?

Here’s a detailed view of the funny:
Detailed View

Heh.

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I’ve held back from criticizing the Courier-Journal quite a bit lately, but the paper’s website has been puzzling the past several days.
And today just takes the cake. Check out the sports section:
Mmm Hmmm

Since when does agriculture have anything to do with sports? Innocent mistake, sure. But why is this sort of thing [...]

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First: Gannett just announced another week of furloughs at the Courier-Journal for employees. Will happen in the first quarter of 2010.
And…
Stephen George just announced, via press release, that he’s leaving LEO Weekly to become editor of the Nashville City Paper on January 11, 2010. Sarah Kelley, news editor since May 2008, will [...]

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You won’t want to miss the story of the Courier-Journal sending a demand that I remove a photograph taken in a public space on a public sidewalk from a public street from my website. I love you, C-J, and all of your free publicity generated when you drum up silly fights like this. I [...]

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Stop the presses (the few that are left working as the newspaper industry – specifically the C-J – dies a hard, cold death in these techie times)!
The Courier-Journal’s John Mura just sent the most hilarious email:
Name: John Mura
Email: jmura@courier-journal.com
Subject: courier-journal front page in your header
Message: Jake, please remove the header photo that has the
Courier-Journal honor [...]

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Here’s the latest on the Courier-Journal’s parent company:
Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, reported a lower quarterly profit that beat market forecasts on Monday because of cost cuts, while revenue fell because of a 28 percent drop in publishing advertising sales.
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Gannett, publisher of USA Today, posted third-quarter net income of $73.8 million, or [...]

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Political communications analyst Kathleen Hall Jamieson will discuss money and media in Barack Obama’s 2008 victory at the University of Louisville. October 19, 6:00 P.M. in Speed Art Museum Auditorium. [Press Release]
East Market Street’s newest street art installation wants to build a relationship. And it is amazing. Be sure to watch [...]

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