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Wall St. Journal to Make Web Site Free, Murdoch says
Update: After reports Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, says he expects to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a top Dow Jones executive told Editor and Publisher the comments were premature.
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Nov 14, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Pultizer Prize winning editorial cartoonist now blogging
Pultizer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman, editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, is now blogging on the newspaper's website and loading his drawings and doodles online.
"We think this may be a first in blog-land," Chris Graves, the Enquirer's Assistant Managing Editor/Online, tells CyberJournalist.net. "Jim and his editor, David Wells, came to us with this idea a few weeks ago. We worked out the technical bugs and viola: An pen and paper guy is now uploading sketches and offering folks a peek into his muse."
Jan 9, 2006 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
CBS News launches Public Eye
CBS News has launched Public Eye, an unprecendented effort to bring transparency to the editorial operations of a major news network, and part of CBS News' attempt to regain the trust of the public after last year's "Memogate."
Public Eye is built around a blog format, in which the journalists who make the editorial decisions at CBS News and CBSNews.com will now be asked to explain and answer questions about those decisions in a public forum.
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Sep 13, 2005 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Kristof Wins Michael Kelly Award
Nicholas Kristof has won this year's $25,000 Michael Kelly Award for his New York Times columns denouncing genocide in Sudan and sexual exploitation in Cambodia, according to Atlantic Media Company.
Kelly was killed while covering the Iraq War in 2003. A former editor of The Atlantic Monthly and National Journal, he was writing for The Washington Post at the time of his death.
In addition to his columns for the newspaper, Kristof has produced some amazing multimedia features for nytimes.com. You can see them all here -- if you've haven't looked at them, you should. They're quite fabulous.
Jun 13, 2005 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Fear and loathing online: Gonzo goes from Web to print
Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson has published a collection of the "Hey Rube" columns he's been writing for ESPN.com since November 2000, in which he's covered everything from gambling to naked bowling. Yes, naked bowling.
And get a load of this:
"Hunter in fact types his stories on a typewriter and then passes them to his assistant and wife. She inputs them to the computer, and then submits them to Hunter's editor at ESPN.com," said an ESPN spokesperson.
Here's a link to the book if you're interested.
Oct 12, 2004 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Knight Ridder blogs RNC
Having taken the DNC by blog storm, Knight Ridder is at it again, with even more blogs for the Republican National Convention. This time around, in addition to the individual blogger sites, Knight Ridder has a single, RSS-fed page that gives an easy way for KR sites to connect readers with the latest posts from all of the blogs. Great idea. Always nice to see sites learn lessons from their work and quickly put improvements in place.
Here's the latest list of Knight Ridder bloggers for the convention:
• Sky Box by Jay Rosen: NYU prof and author of PressThink blog covers the media's role in a democracy
• Life of the Parties by Adam Smeltz: Covering the twentysomething perspective for the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
• Ozblog: Alan Bjerga, the Washington correspondent for the Wichita Eagle
• Webb Blog: Tom Webb of the St. Paul Pioneer Press
• Ohioblog: A Swing State Journal: Steve Love for the Akron Beacon Journal
• Dave Barry's Blog: It's Dave Barry. What can you say?
Related: Knight Ridder blogs Democratic convention
Aug 31, 2004 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
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