Monthly Archives: January 2009

Marketplace interview with Dilbert creator reveals the famous cubicle-dweller is to get the boot.LINK

Denver news stations announce plans to share helicopters to reduce costs. LINK

Hollywood papers threatened by layoffs and bloggers. LINK

Brandeis University student newspaper, The Justice, reports that the school will close the Rose Museum and sell off the artwork to survive financial crisis. LINK

News Editor for University of Maine newspaper, The Maine Campus, makes a case for JuicyCampus.com. LINK

Remember that iconic blue and red Obama poster? This site lets you Obamify yourself. Here’s mine:

Iraq, the world’s most deadliest place to be a journalist, offers free land to those up to the job. LINK

A Times Op-Ed makes an argument for newspapers as not-for-profit organizations. (Shareholders might argue they already are!) LINK

MAD magazine ushers in an era of hopelessness. LINK

Media chide Veep Biden for putting his foot in his mouth. Are we keeping a running tally?

Actually, I think we should give the guy a break. Washington needs to get a sense of humor. LINK

No. Not Sarah Who? SarahPAC! Sarah Palin launches a Political Action Committee to stay in the game. LINK

Obits by Paul Theroux and others  in the New Yorker. LINK

Chicago Maroon reports on tragic suicide of University of Chicago student. LINK

Extraordinary. A woman gives birth to eight babies. Scores of doctors and medical staff, who’d rehearsed for the event, thought she was going to have seven and were surprised by the eighth! LINK

Why is Carlos Slim giving the New York Times $250 million? LINK