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Friday, July 3, 2009
NAHJ Membership Plunges in Newsroom Job Crisis Membership in the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has plummeted by 36% in the past year as layoffs and newsroom budget cuts take their toll. - July 01, 2009
Financial-Crisis Coverage Dominates Loeb Awards McClatchy & Co., one of the companies hardest hit by the crisis in the newspaper industry, was honored Monday for its coverage of the economic meltdown. - June 30, 2009
'Grand Rapids Press' Appoints New Editor Paul M. Keep, publisher and editor of The Muskegon Chronicle, has been appointed editor of The Grand Rapids Press, its publisher announced Monday. - June 22, 2009
'E&P' Readers Weigh in: Enough With the Michael Jackson Coverage Already! For our new Question of the Day feature we asked: Is the press overplaying the death of Michael Jackson? The question produced a good number of responses, even as wide coverage continues. - by Greg Mitchell - June 30, 2009
Why 'E&P' Went Along With Media Blackout on Kidnapping Remember: when Jill Carroll was kidnapped, the Christian Science Monitor only managed to keep it a secret over a weekend. She was then held for months. Daniel Pearl's kidnapping also emerged fairly quickly -- and we all know how that one ended. - by Greg Mitchell - June 23, 2009
Will Blackout on Abducted Reporter Draw Critique? Did news outlets, including Editor & Publisher, do the right thing keeping a New York Times' reporter's kidnapping secret for seven months? He did get out safe yesterday. - by Joe Strupp - June 20, 2009
Tweet and Sour? Newspapers Set New Rules for Social Networking Many editors are still not sure how to police the growing Twitter trend and Facebook "friending" phenomenon. Since much of it relies on casual and candid conversation, standard newsroom regulations may not apply. - by Joe Strupp - June 15, 2009
Deadly Threats at the Holocaust Museum -- From the Very Beginning: A Firsthand Account My daughter, just out of college, worked at the museum during its start-up, in 1992, through its 1993 opening, and two years after that. She told me long ago, and again last night, about some of the scary threats she and others received just for working there, and the extraordinary security measures (little publicized) they had to take. - by Greg Mitchell - June 12, 2009
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