The Chronicle's Steve Rubenstein did the story count. The survey claims 83 percent of the 1,000 people polled said they will never switch to the Internet as their first choice of news. Baquet's move was unexpected, NYT-ers tell Snyder. I can't remember anyone at that level being hired away from The Times. That's the equivalent of the entire median income of an Arkansas family of four for a period of four months.
Lawyers are on the case.
Contentville founder Steven Brill responds on the letters page. The company should never have gone public, they say. Instead, every figure this company puts out for public scrutiny looks terrible. Two golf tournaments and a bike race. The former Detroit News editor's Nieman appointment was postponed last month after the Newspaper Guild and others lodged protests, alleging that Giles slanted coverage during the Detroit newspaper strike.