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Two Leaders to Step Down at Tribune Newspapers

By Kate Howell • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: News About News

The upheaval at the Tribune Company continued Monday as the publisher of The Los Angeles Times and the top editor of The Chicago Tribune stepped down, both at a time when their papers were preparing for major redesigns and deep cuts in their newsroom staffs.
Two Leaders to Step Down at Tribune Newspapers



Poynter awarded $1.4M grant to expand e-learning

By Kate Howell • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: News About News

The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg will expand its journalism e-learning Web site through a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Poynter awarded $1.4M grant to expand e-learning



NBR: Britney Spears and the Future of Business News

By Kate Howell • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Miscellaneous, News About News

Apparently, Britney Spears is the future of business news. How do I know that Britney Spears is the future of business news? I know this because I recently attended a seminar in New York for business journalists where I learned that almost any story with the name Britney Spears in it will do well on […]



RCN Plans Colombian Newscast in English

By Kate Howell • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: News About News

RCN is launching Colombia´s first Internet newscast in English on June 30. RCN News in English will be anchored by Brian Andrews, an American Journalist now living in Colombia. View a promo here.



SPJ Disappointed in Miller Conviction

By Kate Howell • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: News About News

Leaders of the Society of Professional Journalists said the are disappointed and concerned by Wednesday’s conviction and harsh sentencing of Miami freelance photographer Carlos Miller — who was found guilty of resisting arrest without violence during a jury trial.
Miller, who was arrested in February 2007 by Miami police after photographing officers on a public street, […]



Register Early for SPJ’s 2008 Conference in Atlanta

By Kate Howell • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Upcoming Events

The 2008 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference, which takes place Sept. 4-7 in Atlanta, is your chance to meet and connect with reporters, editors, freelancers and educators from across the world for three days of excitement.



NYT: In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors

By Kate Howell • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: News About News

I went to the Newseum, a shiny new building in Washington that news companies and foundations have erected as a shrine to their industry. Since it’s my industry, too, I thought a museum, where sacred relics and texts have been placed safely in the equivalent of a big glass jar, might make me hopeful about […]



Miami Herald to Reduce its Staff by 250

By Kate Howell • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: News About News

Hammered by the same financial problems facing newspapers across the country, The Miami Herald announced plans to reduce its workforce by 250 full-time employees — 17 percent of its staff.



SPJ South Florida Chapter Hosts New York Times Bestselling Author David Sirota

By Kate Howell • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Upcoming Events

David Sirota, a nationally syndicated columnist, joins the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for an evening of discussion, insight and a reading of his latest New York Times Bestseller: The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street & Washington (Crown Publishers, May 2008).



Blogging from the IRE

By Kate Howell • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: News About News

Florida International University journalism professor Neil Reisner’s students are blogging from the IRE conference in Miami. Check out their thoughts here.