It sounds like something out of a 50's Tabloid, with the headline writer struggling with the confinement of creating a headline "x" pica across the page using an "x" sized font.
The story is that Howard Kurz of The Washington Post is leaving the newspaper world and joining the new media. From the Post to the Daily Beast.
Kurtz is one of my favorite media writers, so the significance of his move may seem more significant that it really is. Another gasp in the dying print world? Or just another adjustment to the economic realities of the newspaper world.
Good luck Howard!
[PLUS: The Tribune Company's troubles are detailed in a N.Y. Times story today...a must read for anyone in the media. And you thought your company was a hellhole? Whew!.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular--usually on Mondays---feature of this blog.]
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