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Boca Raton News Shut Down
At a staff meeting today, Boca Raton News Publisher informed the newspaper’s staff of 24 people that the 54-year-old newspaper was being shut down immediately. Sunday’s newspaper will be its last…
Alix Cohen of Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida was named the First Place winner of the Society of Professional Journalist’s 2009 High School Essay Contest. Read the press release: Winners of 2009 High School Essay Contest
Chaos is indeed journalism’s lot, as Professor Shirky observes. However, some salient trends are visible, and there is no harm in extrapolating from them — not to predict the future, but to help us prepare for what Herman Kahn called “surprise-free scenarios.” Phillip Meyer’s essay
Recovering Journalist: You Can’t Charge For Something That Doesn’t Provide Value
“Lionel Barber, the editor of the Financial Times, has gone out on a limb and predicted that “almost all” news sites will be charging for access to their content within a year.
Almost all? Really? Seriously? I’ll have whatever he’s smoking…”
AUTHORED BY: DAVE AEIKENS, SPJ PRESIDENT
INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists is saddened to announce the passing of Executive Director Terry Harper, who died today after a two-year struggle with brain cancer.
Harper, who served from February 2002 through May 2009, took the helm of SPJ after a series of short-term executive directors. He helped [...]
Newspapers’ salvation: Google, gadgets and gumption?
Former Miami Herald Editor Juan Tamayo Joins University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies
“Coral Gables, FL. (May 4, 2009) – The University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies (ICCAS) has named Juan O. Tamayo, former Foreign Editor and Chief of Correspondents at The Miami Herald and [...]
Forbes: Journalism bust, J-School boom
When the current class of optimists from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism prepared for their March job fair, some were stunned to learn that, along with The New York Times, Forbes, DowJones and other national publications, they’d also been signed up for interviews with Cat Fancy, a lively consumer [...]
Groundbreaking collaborations are beginning to surface as public broadcasting stations partner with laid-off print journalists to bolster multiplatform local and regional reporting.
Not-too-strange new bedfellows: print refugees
