A swing and a miss: the New York Times' controversial John
McCain story.(ABOVE THE FOLD)
What's hardest to stop? An aircraft carrier doing 30 knots?
Dick Vitale's superlatives? Ralph Nader's ego?
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What if I added this: A big-time newspaper project that . . .
A year marked by change: the embattled newspaper industry
witnessed many significant developments in 2007.(THE NEWSPAPER
BUSINES
Last year was a momentous one for the newspaper industry: Two major
companies changed hands, two others initiated spinoffs of their
newspaper operations and a fifth announced that it no longer is . . .
Later news: bowing to changing lifestyles, stations are launching
7 p.m. newscasts.(BROADCAST VIEWS)
Live at 5 is dead in Miami. It was killed off temporarily in New
York, too. The NBC-owned stations in both markets took the unusual step
of scrapping their long-running 5 p.m. newscasts last fall . . .
They love everyday people.(BOOKS)(Everyman News: The Changing
American Front Page)(Book review)
Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page
By Michele Weldon
University of Missouri Press
280 pages; $39.95
Caught as we are in the swirl of change, it can be hard to
distinguish the . . .
Free at last: why major news outlets are giving up on charging
for online content.(THE ONLINE FRONTIER)
In September, NYTimes.com tore down the subscription wall known as
TimesSelect, releasing its columnists and much of its archive back to
the general population, once again to be blogged, Googled . . .
High anxiety: a new survey shows journalists are very anxious
about their futures as they struggle to learn new technology and w
Journalists are increasingly uneasy about the future, wondering if
they can keep up with the meteoric pace of technology and whether their
jobs will even exist much longer, a new survey shows.
. . .
Wikipedia in the newsroom: while the line "according to
Wikipedia" pops up occasionally in news stories, it's
relatively rare to
When the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a story in September
about construction cranes, it noted that they were invented by ancient
Greeks and powered by men and donkeys.
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Second time around: after their credulous performance in the
run-up to the war in Iraq, how are the news media handling the Bush
From the moment the three-and-a-half-minute video begins, there is
a chilling sense of deja vu.
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At one point, a grim-faced John Bolton appears on . . .
Nonprofit news: as news organizations continue to cut back,
investigative and enterprise journalism funded by foundations and th
Since 1993, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has funded
journalism training on health issues, including funneling up to $50,000
to a handful of fellows each year to support reporting projects. . . .
Double whammy: it took an awfully long time for the national
media to catch up to the racial turmoil in Jena, Louisiana. When th
To think of excellent reporting on racial issues, Gene Roberts must
reach back 40 years, back to the Orangeburg massacre, when South
Carolina State Police shot more than 20 students protesting . . .
Under the bus.(Cliche Corner)(Quotation)
"Frankly, I was tired of 'Meet the Press' and Big Russ long before
Little Russ threw Imus under the bus."
(Newark's Star-Ledger)
"In the end, no matter what Clemens says it won't be enough unless . . .
A thinking person's Web site: MinnPost.com debuts as the
Twin Cities' dailies cut their staffs.(Report)
In April 2007, as turmoil engulfed the Minneapolis newspaper scene,
Joel Kramer got an idea. He would create a Web site that would appeal to
"news-intense readers," the kind of people who . . .
Correction of the month.(Correction notice)
The diagram in "How to ... Fall Four Stories" should have
shown the subject landing on his feet instead of his shoulder.
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(Wired)
AJR offers $25 or a one-year . . .
Really?(Take 2)
Man Who Fatally Shot Sons Was Unstable, Experts Say
(Washington . . .
Pretty is as pretty does.(Take 2)
The U.S. stands alone in casting Iran as a "rouge state."
(quarterly newsletter of Peace . . .
Brighter than the beige ones.(Take 2)
Orange cops shine in competition
(Orlando . . .
Not just fairly wreckless.(Take 2)
3:22 p.m.--A Bowie woman reported a male subject speeding and
driving in a very wreckless manner in the area
(Willcox's Arizona Range . . .
Winning headlines.
Demand for Champagne Gives Peas a Chance
(over a Wall Street Journal piece about the possibility of adding
the small French city to the region's Champagne grape-growing
region)
Johnson Was . . .
Always a compelling interest.(Quotation)
The persistence of the complaints, and the resulting police action,
make the matter one of considerable and continuing pubic interest.
(Westchester County, New York's Journal . . .
Ya think?(Take 2)
A Bloomberg candidacy would be tricky for Bloomberg News
(link on . . .
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