The free alternative weekly paper the New York Press has folded after a 23 year run, the NY Observer reports. During its strange scrappy life, its stable of contributors included such notables as author Jonathan Ames, The New Yorker's Ben Greenman, contrarian film critic Armond White, current Times Dining critic Sam Sifton, and, uh, "JT LeRoy." The tabloid's demise had been rumored for some time, and it seems Manhattan Media, which bought it in 2007, decided there was no way to make the thing profitable in this day and age. We'd be lying if we said we'd picked it up recently, but it's always sad to see a newspaper go. (Well, almost always.) The silver lining, perhaps, is that the New York Press will live on in some form. more ›

It's not exactly news to anyone that print media can sometimes get a story from a blog and "forget" to credit the original source. Maybe they just haven't learned how to hyperlink yet! Most recently the NY Post picked up a story without crediting blogger Miss Heather. Nieman Journalism Lab reports that when she "uncovered a major zoning violation in her Brooklyn neighborhood last month, it was only natural that the New York Post would pick up the story. But credit the blogger? That would be a violation of policy." more ›