AltWeeklies Wire
Homeland Security Offers 'Pre-Written' Articles to Pressnew
DHS is paying a Pennsylvania ad firm to pitch "pre-written" winter-weather-preparedness articles to the national press -- including Seven Days and other Vermont newspapers.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
01-18-2008 |
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Hanging the Messenger
How Viacom killed Dan Rather and the story of Bush's National Guard service.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
01-16-2008 |
Media
Kentucky Post Dies, Only to Live Onnew
KyPost.com may be among the first newspaper brands in the country to go online-only, but it won't be the last.
LEO Weekly |
Rick Redding |
01-15-2008 |
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Taking the Chicago Tribune's Temperaturenew
What workers inside the office and out are saying about their corners of the kingdom.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
01-15-2008 |
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Some Sportswriters Are Jumping Print for the Webnew
Dana O'Neil is one of many big daily newspaper sportswriters who's recently made the jump to online reporting.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Morgan A. Zalot |
01-14-2008 |
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The Kristol Methodnew
Why is a Murdoch man working for the competition?
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
01-10-2008 |
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The Newsroom, 'The Wire' and the Bottom Linenew
Newsrooms are shrinking, and at the same time, the copy hole expands -- not in print, but online, where electrons are limitless and (virtually) free. But while we all figure this out, what is going unwatched?
Philadelphia City Paper |
Duane Swierczynski |
01-08-2008 |
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Down the News Holenew
Here, we look at some of the biggest pieces of nonsensical hoopla from the year just ended, find out what stories got shoved to the back pages to make room, decide whether their burial was intentional conspiracy, and assess which was really the more important story.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
01-08-2008 |
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More Media Consolidation on the Waynew
Single corporations can now dominate media in the top 20 markets.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amy Hough |
01-03-2008 |
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Bay Area Journalists are Switching Sidesnew
Newspaper shake-ups are leading former journos to the dark side of media relations.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
12-28-2007 |
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Is it Journalism or Military School?new
King J-School acting director Stephen Kimber sees his school as simply one of many paid "service providers," but I'd say it's another example of a university selling its soul to the military.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
12-21-2007 |
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Wolf Blitzer, I Have News for Younew
Wolf: News is not entertainment. A political forum is not the Jerry Springer Show, despite your fondest fantasies of how you would like to transform the debates.
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Temporarily North of the Bordernew
Narco News Bulletin's Al Giordano is back in the States to cover the primaries.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
12-20-2007 |
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The Newspaper Guild vs. Dean Singletonnew
Newspaper unions across the country are closely watching how the Bay Area campaign plays out, because its success or failure could signal a critical turning point for organized labor in a newspaper industry wracked by dwindling readership, declining revenues, and decimated newsrooms.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Information Blockadenew
The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media -- the public's right to know be damned.
Phoenix New Times |
Ray Stern |
12-18-2007 |
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