http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:01:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/10/ajc-shrinks-circulation-cuts-156-jobs/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/10/ajc-shrinks-circulation-cuts-156-jobs/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:36:38 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10688 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/10/ajc-shrinks-circulation-cuts-156-jobs/feed/ 3 Circulation shrinks to 27 counties. 56 full-time and 100 part-time jobs cut. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/coxs-dc-bureau-chief-to-become-washington-post-ombudsman/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/coxs-dc-bureau-chief-to-become-washington-post-ombudsman/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:55 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10180 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/coxs-dc-bureau-chief-to-become-washington-post-ombudsman/feed/ 0 Two-year term with the paper comes day after Atlanta-based Cox announced it was shuttering national and international bureau in D.C. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/cox-shutting-down-dc-bureau/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/cox-shutting-down-dc-bureau/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:30:57 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10063 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/cox-shutting-down-dc-bureau/feed/ 0 International and national newsgathering office to close in April 2009. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:30:46 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/feed/ 2 Reporters get suspicious when we’re denied access to meetings where extremely powerful and wealthy people get together with elected officials to discuss issues of great public importance. That’s what will happen this Monday morning when the Atlanta Committee for Progress (PDF) and Mayor Shirley Franklin go behind closed doors to talk about … well, who knows [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:55:09 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/feed/ 0 SPY VS. PIE: The AP reports that Julia Child left a career as a WWII-era spy to become a chef; Child is one of several well-known Americans whose previously secret spy career was revealed this morning, as the personnel files of the pre-CIA Office of Strategic Services were declassified. SHOOTING: The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/ajc-loses-well-known-bylines-bisher-may-keep-column/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/ajc-loses-well-known-bylines-bisher-may-keep-column/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:43:24 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/ajc-loses-well-known-bylines-bisher-may-keep-column/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/ajc-loses-well-known-bylines-bisher-may-keep-column/feed/ 5 Furman Bisher, the dean of America’s newspaper sports columnists, appears on a stunning list of talent set to leave the AJC staff voluntarily as part of the daily’s downsizing. Unlike others on the list, Bisher actually may continue to produce work for the paper. There was talk inside the newsroom about him staying on [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/five-days-to-stop-big-media/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/five-days-to-stop-big-media/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:12:09 +0000 John F. Sugg http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/five-days-to-stop-big-media/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/five-days-to-stop-big-media/feed/ 2 On Dec. 18, George Bush’s viceroy at the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin, will try to ram through changes that will allow Big Media to get much, much bigger. In Atlanta, that could lead to Cox — which already owns the AJC and WSB — snapping up more TV stations. It would also maximize the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/27/filthy-rich-in-the-dirty-south/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/27/filthy-rich-in-the-dirty-south/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:27:40 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/27/filthy-rich-in-the-dirty-south/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/27/filthy-rich-in-the-dirty-south/feed/ 19 Well, you can quit waiting. Forbes has just published its annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, and you aren’t on it. However, five other Atlantans did make the cut; none is a big surprise and all are predictably white. First up, as always, is willowish octogenarian Anne Cox Chambers, whose inherited media empire includes the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/cox-lobbies-fcc-not-that-the-ajc-will-tell-you/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/cox-lobbies-fcc-not-that-the-ajc-will-tell-you/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 15:11:25 +0000 John F. Sugg http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/cox-lobbies-fcc-not-that-the-ajc-will-tell-you/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/cox-lobbies-fcc-not-that-the-ajc-will-tell-you/feed/ 0 The more people know about Big Media becoming Bigger, Bigger and Humongous Media, the more they dislike the idea, the Pew Research Center Found in 2003. Before information was available on media-consolidation schemes pending before the Federal Communications Commission, 34 percent of respondents thought they were bad ideas. After the information was available, 50 percent [...]