I ran into a friend on Seventh Avenue and he told me that I was in the City section of the Times' today. I didn't know what he was talking about.
But then I remembered.
Time' reporter Greg Beyer called me during the week but I didn't get back to him. I guess I wasn't sure what I wanted to tell the Times' about Murdoch's purchase of the Brooklyn Paper. But all Greg had to do was look at my blog post, which was written within a day of finding out the news.
THIS is not an obituary. The Brooklyn Paper lives.
“loud, offbeat and somewhat irreverent” voice in the borough, in the
words of its founder and publisher, Ed Weintrob. The paper did,
however, undergo something of a transformation this month when it was
purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
Just what this will mean for the paper, which has a circulation of 44,500, is unclear.
“This
is a crazy turn of events and one that leaves many of us feeling
slightly (slightly?) uncomfortable,” Louise Crawford, a columnist for
the newspaper, wrote on her blog, Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.
and some of the chain’s dozen papers report on the same brownstone
neighborhoods that The Brooklyn Paper covers. The Murdoch purchase is
the most recent example of the corporation’s effort to expand coverage
of the boroughs outside Manhattan; the News Corporation also bought
papers in Queens and the Bronx, as well as Courier-Life in Brooklyn, in
2006 and 2007.