Thursday, October 18, 2007

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes as the Mercury News

A "Grade the News" blog entry from Oct. 17 about changes at the San Jose Mercury News since it was absorbed along with the Contra Costa Times by MediaNews:"Those of us who are daily readers of the San Jose Mercury News have had a little more than a year to observe the newspaper since Dean Singleton and his company MediaNews bought the northern California newspapers formerly owned by Knight Ridder. "It is obvious a great deal has changed. Some of the changes have been mostly benign. "Other changes are more harmful. There have been layoffs and resignations. Well-known bylines have disappeared..." http://www.gradethenews.org/blogs/?p=54

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