Columbia Journalism Review

It's been a month since Radar went out of business and its Web site became an asset of AMI. While some of the staff have spent time posing for photos in bars or talking to reporters, Charles Kaiser, who wrote the 'Full Court Press' column for the site, has moved on.

Mr. Kaiser just sent out a release touting his new column on CJR.com:

In the wake of the sale of radaronline.com to the National Enquirer, Charles Kaiser has moved Full Court Press to cjr.org, where 'Above the Fold' and 'Winners & Sinners' will appear every week. Kaiser said, 'It feels like I've found the perfect new home. I'm thrilled to be working with managing Web editor Justin Peters and CJR executive editor Mike Hoyt, who asked me to join them as soon as Radar died.'

Mr. Kaiser has written for The Observer and The New York Times.

It's like 1919 for baseball, or 1929 for the economy. This year is an all-timer for newspapers, so it requires context, revision, and debate. Justin Peters at Columbia Journalism Review is asking a question: is 2008 really the worst year ever for newspapers? (As we argued earlier this week.)

He's got some other candidates. Like!

1963: The production staffers for New York’s daily newspapers waged a 114-day strike, which shut down all of the city’s dailies, cost nearly $200 million and put the New York Mirror out of business. "There was inconvenience for the readers and the merchants lost money—but there was nothing like fear; and that was because citizens, by radio if by no other means, could still discern the broad outline of what was going on," wrote Carl Lindstrom in 1964’s The Fading American Newspaper.

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