Sarah Palin posed in gym shorts for a photo taken for Runner’s World magazine — and months later it shows up as the cover of Newsweek, for a story about Palin and politics.

The whole incident is being called unethical, sexist…

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…

UPDATE: Protests over health care reform disrupted Rep. Russ Carnahan’s  town hall forum on aging Thursday night in south St. Louis County. Six people were arrested outside after the forum, including St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman. Here’s a link…

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 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…

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…

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd — whose column appears Thursdays in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the Other Views page — has admitted using material from a Talking Points Memo post in her Sunday column.

Here’s the DailyBeast.com’s Cheat Sheet synopsis of…

Has the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s coverage of the swine flu story been responsible? Would you characterize it as thorough, excessive or lacking?

The topic seems inescapable. Nationally, swine flu has been the top story on TV and radio news, and has…

Local television newsrooms across the nation lost jobs at a 4.3 percent rate last year — slower than the 11.3 percent loss in newspaper jobs. Salaries of local TV news crews declined 4.4 percent nationally  last year.

That’s according to the 2009…

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At our afternoon stand-up news meeting today, one of our editors asked if President Barack Obama’s appearance tonight on Jay Leno should be one of our front-page stories. At the time, it wasn’t in the four-story lineup — and…