The student government at the University of Texas at Arlington is considering closing the student newspaper for environmental reasons and restricting it to online.
An article on Dallas’ Pegasus News web site — we were directed there from Romenesko’s newsletter — says the editor…
Jim Romenesko’s media newsletter today links readers to a Slate V video parody likening the plight of journalists to children featured for years in Sally Struthers’ “Save the Children” TV ads.
Romenesko reports:
Slate has created a Sally Struthers-esque commercial for BuyOneAnyway, “a…
A college journalism student in San Francisco who witnessed a killing and took pictures of the crime scene is refusing to talk to police or turn over the photos he took, citing California’s shield law.
According to a front-page story in the…
Printing at home
A news item made us wonder if the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was decades ahead of its time in 1939 when it introduced new technology for delivering the news. MediaNews Group has just revealed plans for something called “Individuated News,”…
The Washington Post on Sunday noted the demise of the Rocky Mountain News and used the occasion to offer its readers a primer on the sad state of the newspaper industry.
In an article titled “Under Weight of Its Mistakes, Newspaper…
Oprah Winfrey has again fallen victim to an author’s faked memoir. Herman Rosenblat’s incredible tale — which Winfrey called ”the single greatest love story” she had encountered in her TV show’s 22 years — is heavily embellished, the New York Times…
