Articles about, reviewing or excerpting the book
- Holding the Newhouses to ‘The Pledge’ (Columbia Journalism Review, December 24, 2013)
- Laid-Off Times-Picayune Employees Sue Newspaper, Parent Company Over Now-Defunct Job Security Pledge
(NOLA Defender, December 13, 2013)
- A year after daily publication ceased in Alabama and New Orleans, media market is ‘fractured
’ (The Poynter Institute/Poynter.org, October 3, 2013)
- Good Til The Last Drop: The Future of Advance Publications and The Plain Dealer in the Wake of “Digital-First” Media (alternative weekly Cleveland Scene, Oct. 23, 2013)
- “Hell and High Water” captures Times-Picayune’s struggles, changes (WWL-TV Eyewitness Morning News, Oct. 21, 2013; interview with co-host Eric Paulsen; VIDEO)
- Former Times-Picayune reporter delivers post-mortem on ex-daily newspaper (The Advocate, southern Louisiana, Oct. 19, 2013)
- Author takes behind-the-scenes look at seismic newspaper changes (Mobile, Alabama, alternative biweekly Lagniappe, Oct. 18, 2013)
- Behind the “Hell”: Rebecca Theim talks about changes at The Times-Picayune and what motivated her to write Hell and High Water (New Orleans music and cultural website My Spilt Milk, Oct. 17, 2013)
- Guest on “Informed Sources,” the media and public affairs show of WYES-TV, New Orleans’ PBS affiliate, Oct. 18, 2013 (My segment begins at 10:20)
- Kevin Allman reviews Rebecca Theim’s Book about the New Orleans newspaper war (New Orleans’ alternative weekly, Gambit, Oct. 14, 2013)
- The Times-Picayune Fiasco: A Former Reporter Has Stories to Tell (Review by New Orleans Magazine Editor and Associate Publisher Errol Laborde, Oct. 7, 2013)
- The Fight to Save The Times-Picayune: Excerpt from ‘Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the Daily Times-Picayune (New Orleans Magazine, October 2013)
- A year after daily publication ceased in Alabama and New Orleans, media market is ‘fractured’ (Poynter.org, Oct. 3, 2013)*
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New book on Advance Publications released: Reporting what happened at Advance newspapers, including The Birmingham News (alternative weekly Weld for Birmingham, Oct. 1, 2013)
- Exclusive survey: A year out, Times-Pic downsizing leaves bitterness, scorn among ex-, current employees (Columbia Journalism Review, June 14, 2013)*