LJWorld giving unemployed readers a $1 subscription
This is kind of neat. On Thursday, The Lawrence Journal-World announced a special, 13-week subscription rate for those who are unemployed and have the proper […]
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NYT planning to charge for frequent use of Web site
On Wednesday, The New York Times announced it already has a 2011 New Year’s resolution: charge frequent users of its Web site. An article on […]
Online journalism dubbed Fifth Estate
The press in the United States and abroad has long been referred to as the Fourth Estate. The term was seemingly coined by Scottish writer […]
Greensburg Rebirth magazine released
On May 4, 2007, an EF-5 nearly wiped the small, western Kansas town of Greensburg off the map. Media outlets from across the state and […]
NY Times turns blog over to CUNY
In March 2009, The New York Times launched a blogging experiment by debuting two blogs they called The Local blogs. One covered New York’s Fort […]
Kansas brings in $31,157,100 via ‘Cash For Clunkers’
Earlier this year, U.S. President Barack Obama instituted the CARS, or Car Allowance Rebate System, program, which was commonly known as the “Cash For Clunkers” […]
Editor cuts herself from the budget
The editor of The Oregonian, which serves the Portland, Ore., area, has done something pretty cool to save the jobs of her fellow employees. She […]
Google partners with NYT, WaPo to create ‘living story pages’
Today The Washington Post announced the start of a new partnership with Google. The search-engine giant is working with WaPo and The New York Times […]
Las Vegas Sun combining print, web operations
The Las Vegas Sun, which operates as a joint-operating-agreement under the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has long maintained two, completely separate print and online operations, including […]
Newsy Bits Next To The Giblets: Posts I read during Thanksgiving
The Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday is always busy. Some people are taking part in the Cyber Monday insanity, but me personally, I’m trying to […]
Political Editor makes song about copy editor layoffs
Nowadays all you hear is about how print journalism is dying, and though I don’t necessarily buy that notion (I think it is just changing, […]
UPDATE: Justice Kennedy speaks about ‘prior review’ incident
On Nov. 11 I posted a blog post condemning Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has been a proponent of free speech and the First […]