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07.20.2009 9:36 pm

Boston’s only black-owned paper accepts loan from city

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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07.07.2009 11:09 am

Post launches internal reviews after sponsored-parties controversy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Washington Post reports today that it has “initiated internal reviews to ensure that its business practices do not compromise its journalistic ethics when the newspaper organizes conferences or private events funded by sponsors.

The planned “salons” have led to widespread criticism of the…

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06.25.2009 11:23 am

Newspaper web site features — exploits? — police mug shots

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A Florida newspaper’s new web site based solely on police mug shots of crime suspects has launched an ethics debate — and evoked memories of the St. Louis Evening Whirl.

Even a single mug shot can be controversial: From time to…

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