AltWeeklies Wire
The Last American Newspaper Bureau in Canada Closes Up Shopnew
You read right: not a single American paper will staff Canada -- on the bright side, the AP "maintains a full-time bureau." Covering a country 4,000 miles wide, I guess that bureau works the phones a lot.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
04-23-2007 |
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How to Purge the Passenew
The firing of Don Imus may point the way to getting rid of other pathetic old fools.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
04-20-2007 |
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Newsroom Musical Chairs at the AJCnew
The Journal-Constitution loses top talent and familiar names; many who stay will have to find new beats.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
04-19-2007 |
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Will Pulitzer Winner Charlie Savage Leave the Globe?new
Boston's Weekly Dig starts a poll as to when -- place your bid.
Dig Boston |
Staff |
04-18-2007 |
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Go With the (Free) Flownew
The Free Flow of Info Act: Keeping journalists off the witness stand (and protecting anonymous sources).
San Antonio Current |
Dave Maass |
04-18-2007 |
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Lone Gunman, Media Mob at Virginia Technew
Imagine a world in which Alberto Gonzales' upcoming Congressional testimony was accorded the same drama and intense, layered coverage as the shootings, while the Virginia Tech victims' friends and families were left to mourn in private.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
04-18-2007 |
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Minnesota's Newspaper Warnew
The Pioneer Press accuses turncoat publisher Par Ridder of stealing company property and poaching top employees.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Paul Demko |
04-18-2007 |
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Highlights from Local TV Newsnew
A bank robber dons a Ronald Reagan mask; kids drive a tractor to school.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Frances Sansig Monahan |
04-17-2007 |
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Transit Agency Denies Ads Based on Contentnew
And now the Port Authority of Allegheny County faces a lawsuit by the League of Young Voters Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union -- an attempt by the agency to have the case was thrown out last month.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Violet Law |
04-17-2007 |
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Not All Peddlers of Seattle's Homeless Paper Are Homelessnew
But should that really matter?
Seattle Weekly |
Huan Hsu |
04-16-2007 |
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Roll Over, Colonelnew
The Chicago Tribune has a long and bumpy history with area Jews -- now it's owned by one.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
04-16-2007 |
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Normon Solomon Talks War Marketingnew
Since the mid-1980s, Solomon has been dogging the game of mainstream journalism as a leading press critic.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
04-12-2007 |
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Lost in Translationnew
The Clarion-Ledger can't even find a Jacksonian to talk with about "the future of Jackson." The worst corporate daily in the nation just keeps going downhill.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
04-12-2007 |
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Blinkered Economicsnew
When will Arthur Sulzberger Jr. take a vow of poverty?
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
04-12-2007 |
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Boy Butter's Tight Agendanew
The sex lube maker says Comcast won't air his racy ad in San Francisco.
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