VITAMEDIAS
Web Site Changes Name After Newspaper Co Complains: A favorite Web site for media cognoscenti said on Thursday it has agreed to change its name, after a privately held newspaper publisher accused it of trademark infringement.
Jim Romenesko's MediaNews said on its Web site that it will change its name to "Romenesko" in response to complaints by MediaNews Group Inc., which owns some 50 newspapers including the Denver Post and the Salt Lake Tribune.
The Web site is the brainchild of lifelong journalist Romenesko, who scours hundreds of Web sites daily and posts links to stories on the media business - one of the first and most successful "blogs," or Web logs, which have become a thriving online resource for news of all sorts.
The site, which Romenesko started and originally ran independently, is now operated by the St. Petersburg, Florida-based Poynter Institute for Media Studies.