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Ominous sign…

March 19, 2009 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

when the most committed owners of newspapers start selling off their shares:Donald Graham, the chairman and chief executive officer of Washington Post Co.has sold tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in the past year through a series of trusts he oversees for his relatives. In the process he has decreased his control of the company's publicly traded class B shares to 3.2 million shares, or … [Read more...]

Apparently, the News is Free

March 19, 2009 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

Is there anything ironic about National Public Radio canceling its newspaper subscriptions? This is, after all, the member organization that often fund-raises with the line "The news isn't free." … [Read more...]

Douglas McLennan

I'm the founder and editor of ArtsJournal, which I launched in 1999. ArtsJournal has never been a news source — it's a curated conversation: 26 years of gathering the most significant writing about … [Read More...]

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Our culture is undergoing profound changes. Our expectations for what culture can (or should) do for us are changing. Relationships between those who make and distribute culture and those who consume it are changing. And our definitions of what artists are, how they work, and how we access them and their work are changing. So... [Read more]

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