MySpace for My News?
MySpace is the talk of the Web again, this time for speculation that it’s stepping into the news biz. Although MySpace reps haven’t commented, the New York Post and MediaPost ran stories Monday saying...
View ArticleStudent press bill moves on to Washington state senate
By J-Ideaswww.jideas.orgMarch 13, 2007 Excerpt: The Washington state House of Representatives early Tuesday morning passed a comprehensive bill guaranteeing press rights for the state’s high school...
View ArticleGay-rights article stirs debate over student freedoms
By Rebecca NealThe Indianapolis StarMarch 26, 2007 Excerpt: Amy Sorrell figured the articles on teen pregnancy, teen motherhood and sexually transmitted diseases would be controversial, so she...
View ArticleHow a Small Newspaper Won a Big Award
Last January, the media world focused its attention on 13 miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine named Sago. The news broke the same day a woman in Kentucky was preparing to bury her husband....
View ArticleTaking Risks with Advertisers
A Philly Inquirer business column and a bank have a new arrangement. The Poynter ethics faculty weighs in. By Leann FrolaContributors: Kelly McBride, Bob Steele As newspapers lose advertisers to the...
View ArticleBreaking News, Blog-Style
Old-school journalists, brace yourself. The inverted pyramid’s taken a new twist. One of the most popular ways news organizations covered the Virginia Tech shootings wasn’t through the traditional...
View ArticleCopy Editors: The Missing Link in the Online Newsroom
Copy editors usually ask a lot of questions. But this past weekend, at the annual American Copy Editors Society convention, those questions weren’t just about sloppy copy. They were about how copy...
View ArticleLeading an Online Publication: the Unanswered Questions
Ten minutes, 129 questions. They came from leaders of online news operations across the globe who are at Poynter this week trying to make sense of journalism online. When asked to write down their...
View ArticleLeaving the Blog Behind: TVNewser’s Stelter on His Move to Nytimes.com
The kid that TV news execs just can’t get enough of is moving up the ladder himself. Brian Stelter, who aggregates news about TV news, is leaving his mediabistro.com blog, TVNewser. As of July 23,...
View ArticleOregon’s Student-Expression Bill Clears State Legislature
A bill that would keep administrators from censoring high school and college journalists passed the Oregon state legislature Monday. The free-expression bill is expected to be signed by the governor...
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