Ricky Mathews, the former Mississippi and Alabama newspaper executive promoted within Advance Publications to oversee the 2012 “digital first” transformation of The Times-Picayune that decim...
The former headquarters of The Times-Picayune and its previously iconic clock tower, have been sold to a group of local real estate investors for $3.5 million. Continue reading →
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2016/09/10/former-times-picayune-hq-has-new-owners/
Who said it? Times-Picayune sports reporters Jeff Duncan imploring Tom Benson to sell the Saints and the Pelicans, or Benson asking to buy the Picayune? Continue reading →
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/12/30/local-ownership-quiz/
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune today carried out its expected third round of layoffs since its “digital first” transformation in September 2012, letting go 37 full- and part-time editorial e...
Advance Publications gave journalists at the Huntsville Times, Birmingham News and Mobile Press-Register their walking papers today (Aug. 18). The layoffs are expected to be precursors to term...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/08/18/advance-cuts-newsroom-at-all-3-al-papers/
As New Orleans prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, most media watchers assume The Times-Picayune will produce its own retrospective on the sacrifice man...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/06/17/staff-cuts-katrina-anniv/
In his biannual letter to employees, Advance Local President Randy Siegel, the highest-ranking non-Newhouse family member in the Advance newspaper digital hierarchy, says the company is “poised...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/01/07/poynter-advance-digital-2015/
Times-Picayune subscribers who went to their driveways this morning unsure of whether an edition of the newspaper would be waiting for them (if you don’t know why, read THIS POST) were instead ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/01/03/advocate-marketing-on-end-tp-editions/
As predicted in Hell and High Water (page 190), NOLA Media Group today announced that The Times-Picayune will abandon its longtime Howard Avenue headquarters – including the iconic clock tower,...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2014/10/21/tp-to-leave-howard-ave-cut-100-more-jobs/
The Columbia Journalism Review keeps the heat on Advance Publications, with another hard-hitting look at another Advance newspapers to undergo “digital first.” From the opening of the story: ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2014/01/17/this-used-to-be-a-newsroom/