This is right up there with video of liquor store thieves falling through drop-ceilings. Apparently some person or persons wanted to "stop the presses" on a story about a college homecoming queen …
Just because you have a tool, doesn’t mean you have to always use it
I like what two Liverpool newspapers are doing: geotagging certain news stories and plotting them on a map. But I like what they're not doing even better: tagging every single story. “We don’t use …
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Gazing into NAA’s 2009 crystal ball and seeing very different things
As he is wont to do, Alan Mutter, The Newsosaur, just rained on what little parade the Newspaper Association of America has to offer right now: A projection of revenue falloff of "only" 5.5% for …
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The check is not in the mail
You know the old saying: When you owe the bank $1,000 - and can't pay - you have a problem. When you owe the bank $486 million - and can't pay - the bank has a problem. This week, The Star …
Most-read, or most-reviled?
William Lobdell, who previously wrote a trenchant and sadly accurate critique of the state of papers in general and the LA Times in particular, has looked at the "Most popular" feature at local web …
A daily folds
A very wan "Yay" I just collected thirty-four fake dollars by correctly forecasting that this would be the year that a daily paper would shut down. Jeff Jarvis posted the question a while back …