CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Thank you Town Talk!

    So I thought I would add my bit to today’s Town Talk editorial opinion piece by Cynthia Jardon: Now, I don’t find it odd that Ms. Jardon reads CenLamar. We do, after all, read the TT, opposing blogs, agreeing blogs, local, national, and international publications, and all sorts of other online sources. It’s how you know what’s going on and how you learn what others are thinking — whether you agree with them or not. I personally think that CenLamar, particularly under Lamar’s guidance, has been quite careful not to criticize The Town Talk (in general) and, in particular, Cynthia…

  • Gannett Blog: Could Shreveport Be Louisiana’s Regional Hub?

    Gannett Blog is owned and operated by Jim Hopkins, who describes himself and the project as follows: I’m a former USA Today editor and reporter, writing about the digital transition of Gannett Co., the nation’s biggest newspaper publisher, and one of its largest private employers (about 42,000 workers). Gannett Blog gets more than 100,000 monthly page views, ranking it in the top 8% of all blogs, according to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008. From a post dated April 20, 2009: A tipster says a regional page production desk for the five Louisiana newspapers is moving forward, and could be…

  • Timely

    Frank Rich’s column in today’s New York Times, “The American Press on Suicide Watch” (bold mine): Newspaper circulations and revenues are in free fall. Legendary brands from The Los Angeles Times to The Philadelphia Inquirer are teetering. The New York Times Company threatened to close The Boston Globe if its employees didn’t make substantial sacrifices in salaries and benefits. Other papers have died. The reporting ranks on network and local news alike are shriveling. You know it’s bad when the Senate is moved, as it was last week, to weigh in with hearings on “The Future of Journalism.” By way…