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Sunday, March 21, 2010
AP Names New Atlanta-based Bureau Chief for Four States Michelle Williams, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Arizona and New Mexico, has been named chief of bureau for the South Atlantic region. - March 15, 2010
NYT Magazine names 'On Language' Columnist The New York Times Magazine named Ben Zimmer as the new "On Language" columnist. He succeeds William Safire, the founder of the column in 1979, who died last fall. - March 11, 2010
Veteran San Francisco Police Reporter Malcom Glover Dies at 83 Longtime San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle police reporter Malcolm Glover died March 1 of congestive heart failure. He was 83. Beginning as a 12-year-old gardener for Hearst and later as a teenage photographer for Hearst's Examiner, Glover in 56 years of reporting covered almost all the city's big crimes. - March 09, 2010
World Editors Forum Webinars Examine Newsroom Business issues The FIFA World Cup in South Africa later this year offers newspaper companies the opportunity to expand multimedia news coverage to attract new audiences and revenues. This and other newsroom-related topics are the subjects of World Editors Forum webinars. - March 08, 2010
Op-Ed: A Skeptical View of 'Net Neutrality' Net Neutrality won't do anything to democratize the media if corporate media and traditional professional journalists just use it to rebuild the Old Media in new technolgy, media activists Scott Sanders and James Owens argue. - by Scott Sanders and James Owens - March 12, 2010
Ken Doctor's 'Newsonomics,' a Fitz & Jen Book Review Ken Doctor's new book "Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get" not only crisply explains what the heck is going on with newspapers, Doctor does it in such a conversational tone that the pages fly by. - by Mark Fitzgerald and Jennifer Saba - February 09, 2010
Antitrust's Latest Newspaper Absurdity The Justice Department's proposed "settlement" of non-existent anti-competitive practices by Charleston, W.Va.'s two dailies caps a Kafkaesque legal process. - by Mark Fitzgerald - January 22, 2010
What's Behind The Washington Post Co.'s Dividend, Stock Buyback Not long ago, newspaper companies looked on high dividends and stock buybacks as the best way to prop up their share prices. A ton of debt later, the strategies are effectively taboo. So why is the Post Co. bucking the industry trend? - by Mark Fitzgerald - January 21, 2010
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