AltWeeklies Wire
"Inside the Herald-Sun," "Technobarons of the 21st Century," "Tangle of Telco Law"new
AltWeeklies Award - Media Reporting
Tags: media
"Paxton May Have Overpaid," "Rock Talk Is History at WRDU," and "Big Cable"new
AltWeeklies Award - Media Reporting
Tags: media
"Snow Job," "Hoes for Healthcare," "Welcome to the Terrordome"new
AltWeeklies Award - Column
Tags: media
"Bait and Switch," "The Coming of the Lord," "Profits on a Plane"new
AltWeeklies Award - Arts Criticism
Tags: media
"Desires vs. Duties," "De-Evolution," "Down, Home"new
AltWeeklies Award - Arts Criticism
Tags: media
Possible Layoffs Loom at 'The News & Observer'new
At a meeting last week, the daily's executive editor John Drescher warned newsroom staffers there could be some tough cuts. "We continue to have trouble financially and all options are on the table," he says.
Ain't No Sunshinenew
Records are often difficult to get, and now, even more so, since President George W. Bush designated entire categories of federal documents off-limits in the name of "national security."
The FCC's Media Malicenew
Chairman Kevin Martin wants to fast-track relaxing media ownership rules so that a company could own TV and radio stations -- and a newspaper -- in the same market.
Stop the Presses: The Paperless Newspapernew
It's hard to dispute that the newspaper is doomed in the long run, as an inefficient and wasteful medium that technology can easily improve upon -- but while the newspaper is expendable, the tradition it represents and the information it supplies are not.
Tags: media
Kevin Martin, from N.C. to the FCCnew
Unlike his predecessor as FCC chairman, Michael Powell, Martin is not an anti-regulation ideologue in lockstep with Republicans and telecom companies.
