Phil Rosenthal is Blogging at Tower Ticker

Posted on October 29, 2008

Media columnist Phil Rosenthal has a new blog on chicagotribune.com called Tower Ticker. Rosenthal's post describing the new blog can be found here.

It's called "Tower Ticker," which from December 1948 to October 1981 was the name of the Chicago Tribune's popular people column. This isn't that. It's more an expansion of the Tribune column I have been writing for the last 3� years (and, in some ways, the Chicago Sun-Times and Los Angeles Daily News columns I wrote for two decades before that). But I liked the name, the handle was available and worth dusting off for a revival.

He also linked to a Monkees video on YouTube in the post but then apologized for doing it.

Rosenthal's blog has an interesting entry titled "A paper without paper is still a paper." The post is about the Christian Science Monitor's recent decision to scale back on print from daily to weekly and to focus more on the website. A lot of journalists like Rosenthal now have blogs and a lot of newspapers are folding or curtailing print editions to focus on the web. It's still the same news and opinion but the format and technology is changing. What's happening is basically what was being predicted a couple years ago.