washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
As a journalism professor, I was stunned by staff writer Bill Turque's "love letter" to Patrick Pope, principal of Hardy Middle School in Georgetown. He noted that D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is trying to address (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
MediaShift:
Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the deep layoffs that are planned at AOL, the AP and BusinessWeek. In the case of AOL, the company plans to shed one-third of its workforce (Read More)
Romenesko:
Nieman Journalism Lab One of the tweaks that Zachary Seward has noticed: Steve Brill used to use the term "wall" to describe subscription content, but he's now abandoned that language. "We're not putting up any kind of a payw (Read More)
Romenesko:
The Kojo Nnamdi Listen to Thursday's WAMU discussion of the state of alternative media. The guests: Mark Jurkowitz of the Project for Excellence in Journalism; former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff; Richard Karpel of the (Read More)
College Media Matters:
In case you have been stuck on no-journalism-allowed island recently: Past undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University working on the famed Innocence Project have been accused of bribing witnesses and acting (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
The party’s in full swing today on Google Chrome OS bashing – it seems that the blogosphere took cues from Steven Hodson yesterday, and multiple bloggers are attempting to advance the theory that Chrome OS is going to fail, (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Earlier this month the Ford Foundation made an exciting announcement: they're giving away $100 million to improve secondary education in urban schools.This is fantastic news to anyone who cares about education, the American D (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
I recognize that NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr is well into his tenth decade of life, and plays the role of the "senior statesman of journalism" on NPR at times, but as a bunch of folks have sent in, he seems to have totally (Read More)
paidContent.org:
» Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will be the next big thing, Brizzly. [LA Times]» Hoping to be the Canadian Pandora, Listen.fm buys up the re (Read More)
Etaoin Shrdlu:
I guess Jim Barnett must trust rich people a lot more than I do.Don’t get me wrong: some of my best friends, yada-yada, and I certainly wouldn’t mind if my sister married one. (If I had a sister). But why on earth does he thi (Read More)
Romenesko:
Columbia Journalism Review "I actually hadn't seen the Economist cover when we designed this, so I wasn't even aware that they had arrived at the same design solution," says Atlantic art director Jason Treat. Graphic design (Read More)
Romenesko:
Online Journalism Review That's too bad, says Robert Niles, because "Walt's management style empowered the company to cultivate fresh ideas," while news business management has smothered creativity. "As a newspaper online pro (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
Several media reporters wrote on Twitter on Thursday that this was one of the worst weeks in journalism, and it’s hard to argue with them. BusinessWeek is canning a third of its staff as Bloomberg gets ready to buy the magazi (Read More)
Submitted by rexhammock
from Google Reader:
Google, accused by some as being a book thief, now has company — the Associated Press. The AP patted itself on the back in an internal memo that detailed how it scanned a copy of Sarah Palin’s book without permission, to ma (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
Less than a month after the Washington Blade, known as “the gay paper of record,” celebrated its 40th Anniversary at a glitzy reception at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., comes news that the paper will no (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Earlier this month the Ford Foundation made an exciting announcement: they're giving away $100 million to improve secondary education in urban schools.This is fantastic news to anyone who cares about education, the American D (Read More)
The Guardian:
James Murdoch's speech to investors in Barcelona yesterday revealed the direction that News Corporation plans to take in the coming years. His key quote:In the business of ideas, which is the business that we are in, we do th (Read More)
News from Journalism.co.uk:
Adam Westbrook looks at an ongoing project at Northwestern University in the US, where students under the leadership of investigative journalist David Protess investigate, fact check and data mine criminal convictions in the (Read More)