It would appear that The Virginian-Pilot is getting desperate to sell their paper product. Beginning Monday, June 8, Kerry Dougherty and Mike Gruss will concentrate their online work on their PilotOnline.com blogs. And you’ll now find their columns only in The Virginian-Pilot.  -=SOURCE=- They have taken their “A” List columnists, Kerry [...]

Ok.  The online arm of the Virginian-Pilot has out done itself this time.  With one of the most idiotic poll questions I think I have ever seen online. Screenshot: Well, Pilot Online.  No.  They should continue to use as much out of date data as possible just so they can screw up the money count even more. [...]

First off, Main Stream Media is fast becoming….  well NOT.  But that’s a different post.  I was contacted 2 or 3 weeks ago by a writer for Portfolio Magazine to discuss what the MSM could do to save it self.  Primarily print media.  It’s a tough question, but I gave it my best shot.  The writer told me she had a [...]

Twice in one day I’ve heard about the pending layoffs and cut backs at the Virginian-Pilot, Hampton Road’s primary print media source. I had lunch today with a former employee. He mentioned the pending doom. Then this evening, I get an email from another former writer for The Pilot, John-Henry Doucette. He wrote a blog entry discussing [...]