Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
After a two-year tug of war with administrators, Quinnipiac Chronicle editors are taking matters into their own hands — and considering severing ties with the school permanently. According to editor accounts, about 20 members of the newspaper met Wednesday night to begin planning for the possible creation an independent online newspaper. The discussion came on the...
The New York Stock Exchange announced Friday that it will suspend trading of the Journal Register Company, parent corporation of the New Haven Register, on Wednesday because of its “abnormally low” stock price. The decision, which comes during continued speculation about impending bankruptcy for the Journal Register, followed the Thursday’s news that Moody’s...
It was early September, 1968. A tall, lanky junior wandered into 202 York St., home of the Yale Daily News, holding a handful of hand-drawn comics — a series about the football team called “Bull Tales.” Nervously, the young man greeted Executive Editor Reed Hundt ’69 LAW ’74. After rifling through the first three or four comic strips, Hundt shrugged. He was...
At $0.75, a copy of The New Haven Register now costs more than the common share price of its parent corporation, the Journal Register Company, which dropped to $0.22 on Monday. The Journal Register is in trouble because of a number of factors, including in part a flagging economy and a newspaper industry become increasingly centered in the Internet, that are adversely...
It is impossible for journalists to be completely objective, according to Katrina vanden Heuvel, at least. Vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, a magazine which describes itself as “the flagship of the left,” addressed the Yale Political Union on Monday night to discuss the role of opinion in American media. She spoke in support of the resolution “The...
The Journal Register Company, the parent corporation that owns The New Haven Register, has retained investment bank Lazard to assist in a possible restructuring of the company, The New York Times reported Saturday. Financial difficulties at the Journal Register may soon force the company to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange if its share price does not rebound...
It is important for lawyers and journalists to work together in breaking controversial stories, panelists asserted at a Law School discussion Tuesday afternoon that brought together prominent journalists and lawyers from ABC News and The Washington Post. The discussion, entitled “Covering Scandals,” analyzed the process of breaking high-profile stories from the...
After 30 years covering the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse will return to Yale Law School to become its journalist-in-residence and a senior fellow starting next January, the Law School announced Wednesday. Greenhouse, who accepted a buyout from the Times last month, will return to the law school from which she earned a...
After 30 years covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse will take a new post as a journalist-in-residence and senior fellow at Yale Law School starting next January, the Law School announced Wednesday. Greenhouse, who accepted a buyout from The Times last month, will return to the law school from which she earned a Master...
Although voters across the country are weighing issues ranging from the economy to health care to immigration as they ponder their 2008 election choices, the war on terror remains the most pressing reality for Judea Pearl. Pearl, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the father of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, addressed an...
At the age of 42, Sam Tanenhaus GRD ’78 applied for an editing position at The New York Times. He had a keen love for literature and a knack for the art of writing. But he got the job largely thanks to one personal quality: his unemployment. In 1997, he began what The Times calls a tryout along with several other would-be editors, a period during which applicants...
Five weeks ago, right next to stories about the CIA’s destruction of interrogation tapes, a Supreme Court ruling about sentencing guidelines and Vladimir Putin’s anointment of a hand-picked successor, the front page of The New York Times declared, “Harvard to Aid Students High in Middle Class.” The day before, the university had stunned the higher education world...
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