A one-sentence item in the Nation Digest in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch reported:

The publisher of Boston’s only black-owned newspaper says he’ll accept a $200,000 loan from the city to avert the shutdown of the financially struggling weekly.

Here’s a bit more information:

“Only a…

The Society of Professional Journalists plans a town hall meeting in St. Louis May 2 to examine media credibility. The public is encouraged to attend the free meeting.

Audience members will have the opportunity “to ask questions about how local stories are…

Politicians from states with rich histories of corruption tend to either be very corrupt themselves or just the opposite, an article on Newsweek.com argues.

Michael Hirsh, Newsweek.com’s Washington Web Editor, speculates on Barack Obama’s legacy — in the wake of the Blagojevich…

A blogger for Philly.com thinks it’s time for newspapers to change their policies on reporting about suicides. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News notes that a suicide there received press coverage only because of its spectacular nature:

“Chapgar’s suicide only received coverage in…

 This disturbing scene is reported in today’s The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room:

“Several members of the media were seen cheering and clapping for Barack Obama as the Illinois senator accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday.”

“Standing on the periphery of the football field…