BOE offers j-teaching contract
Put on your dancing shoes and your party hat because it has finally happened! I’m going to be a teacher! Monday night the Western Plains […]
Honor free press today
Today is World Press Freedom Day. According to Wikipedia.org, the “United Nations General Assembly declared 3 May to be World Press Freedom Day[1][2] to raise […]
Superintendent search nearly finished
Thursday I wrote about how the Western Plains Unified School District 106 superintendent, Kerry Lacock, was leaving and how I was sad to see him […]
Front Page Friday: The Daily Union
It is that time of the week again. It is time to look at my favorite newspaper front page of the week. As always, I […]
Western Plains superintendent set to leave
Western Plains Unified School District No. 106 superintendent (and high school principal and teacher) Kerry Lacock is leaving The Bobcat Nation. He has taken a […]
Woman blogs the end of her life
On March 27, Eva Dien Brine Markvoort, of Vancouver, Canada, died after battling cystic fibrosis. She was 25 years old. Itself, her death isn’t that […]
‘Man on street’ feature gets high school paper in trouble
Across the country, newspapers use special features to help involve readers and the community the publication serves. One such feature is a “man on the […]
Start-up competitor to WaPo gets a name
The Washington, D.C., start-up news website with its sights clearly set on The Washington Post and its local news coverage being brought online by Politico.com […]
Front Page Friday: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It is that time of the week again. It is time to look at my favorite newspaper front page of the week. As always, I […]
Digital First, Print Last is focus of Ben Franklin Project
The Journal Register Company’s Ben Franklin Project is an opportunity to re-imagine the newsgathering process with the focus on Digital First and Print Last. Using […]
Police raid student newspaper office
“At least half a dozen police officers and the Rockingham County commonwealth’s attorney raided the offices of James Madison University’s student newspaper Friday, confiscating hundreds […]
Supreme Court: What’s the difference ‘between email and a pager?’
There is a court case being heard by the United States Supreme Court concerning “the California SWAT officer who sued the city of Ontario for […]