Category Archives: In the News

Interesting story on Poynter Online about a journalist’s plan to build a blog about Caterpillar (as in tractors) that will fund his retirement. LINK

Newspaper execs try to counter doom and gloom reports about the future of newspapers. LINK

The pilot who pulled off a magnificent landing in the Hudson gives his first interview to ESPN. LINK

UK’s Daily Telegraph reports Obama’s Half Brother arrested for drugs. LINK

This alert from my Journalism 1 class: Star magazine shows Michael Phelps smoking pot. LINK

A 25-year-old Russian cub reporter shot execution style at a paper that’s seen a number of journalists killed. LINK

Pew survey shows Internet not only for the young. LINK

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