AltWeeklies Wire
Jad Abumrad Reveals the Inner Workings of Radiolabnew
Jad Abumrad reveals the inner workings of Radiolab—and his own creative dark side.
More layoffs at Durham's Herald-Sunnew
Second round of job cuts in two years leaves fewer than 20 people in newsroom.
Why Hyperlocal Websites Like New Raleigh Can't Make Money Onlinenew
Three years ago, media analysts were calling community-driven websites the trend to watch. But like most hyperlocal news sites, New Raleigh never found a way to translate its influence and readership into profit.
Tags: New Raleigh
News & Observer prepares pay wall to charge users for online accessnew
Beginning Dec. 19, visitors to the News & Observer website will be asked to pay after reading a limited number of articles for free.
Tags: paywalls lol
Why I Started the Independent and Why I am Selling Itnew
The mission of the Independent has always been to publish the nation's best alternative journalism; to help build a just community in the Triangle; to create a great workplace for every individual here; and to make a profit doing it.
Photographing Warnew
After the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, looking at the work of war photographers.
Tags: Chris Hondros, Tim Hetherington
Rush Radio: Truth is False and Logic Lostnew
If you're a card-carrying liberal, you may rightly be asking yourself: Isn't there enough conservative radio in the area already? Why isn't there equal counterprogramming of progressive talk across the radio band? And does it even matter that there isn't?
An Interview with Larry Flynt About Free Speechnew
Larry Flynt spoke as part of a two-day symposium on the First Amendment sponsored by the First Amendment Law Review of the UNC School of Law. The Indy caught up with Flynt by telephone last week.
On the Late Molly Ivins and Her Crusade Against Corporatized Americanew
My old Columbia classmate Molly Ivins has been gone for three years now. Things have slipped fast since her funeral. Even Molly, with her keen nose for mendacity, might be amazed by the ethical dry rot that's eating away at the business of news.
Tears of a Clown: On the Glenn Beck Phenomenonnew
The ex-Top 40 disc jockey, recovering drug addict and alcoholic, convert to Mormonism and the National Rifle Association, is American popular culture at its most incomprehensibly weird and offensive. He's also a huge success, a hit, a phenomenon -- a star.
More Bad News at The News & Observernew
More layoffs loom at the North Carolina daily, and the spinoff entertainment publication could be history.
Paxton Media Group is Running Durham's Daily Paper into the Groundnew
Layoffs and other staff changes that began last Tuesday may be responses to tough economic times, while newsroom reassignments will slightly increase the number of reporters. But none of those changes addresses the drastic decline in circulation and reporting resources -- not to mention quality -- that has marked Paxton's ownership of the paper.
Guards Sound Alarm Over Security at Nuclear Plantnew
AltWeeklies Award - News Story -- In-Depth
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