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Noozhawk: Each day, Noozhawk will be delivering writing worth reading for the South Coast, with our staff of professional journalists providing original reporting on local news, business, real estate, sports, schools and nonprofit organizations. While we’re certainly interested in the bigger picture, like you, we get that news from respected national sources and global Web […]

NY Times: Dow Jones Drops CNBC Ads From Web Sites in Favor of Fox Links. On the day they had contracted to run advertisements placed by CNBC, two Web sites owned by Dow Jones & Company instead ran ads for that cable business channel’s new competitor, the Fox Business Network. Both MarketWatch and The Wall […]

NY Times: Group Plans to Provide Investigative Journalism. Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a group of investigative journalists who will give away their work to media outlets. Foundations are stepping into the breach left by downsizing […]

GateHouse Media, a big newspaper company, is holding an in-house contest for ideas that will generate $50 million in new earnings, Poynter reports. (The rules are here.) The winner can get up to $1 million. The contest is a great idea. But it should be open to all, not just GateHouse. The best ideas aren’t […]

The news that MSNBC has bought Newsvine is a very big deal in the new media world. MSNBC.com has done a lot of excellent online journalism over the years, and pulling Newsvine under its wing make perfect sense. Now we need to see the experiment taken to a more logical conclusion, because Newsvine and its […]

In “A Letter to Readers About TimesSelect, the paper writes: Effective Sept. 19, we are ending TimesSelect. All of our online readers will now be able to read Times columnists, access our archives back to 1987 and enjoy many other TimesSelect features that have been added over the last two years – free. Glad to […]

I have an op-ed piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle urging the nation’s community foundations — which are holding a conference this week in San Francisco — to play a growing role in keeping local journalism vibrant. It starts: As America wakes up to the crumbling of basic infrastructure, with Minnesota’s bridge collapse the most […]

Boston Phoenix: House pest. The biggest political story in Massachusetts right now is the state’s ongoing dalliance with casino gambling — but the biggest scoops haven’t been coming from the Globe or the Herald. Their source, instead, has been Yarmouth resident Peter Kenney, a/k/a the “Great Gadfly,” a sexagenarian carpenter and public-access-cable star who writes […]

Guardian: Google News to publish agencies’ copy. The announcement that Google is to publish news content on its own site is likely to be met with some concern from the news industry, which has struggled to work out whether the web giant’s activities across video, advertising and book publishing are a threat or an opportunity.Google […]

Ken Doctor asks if MinnPost.com is A Broadside of Next Wave Journalism. He observes that the local daily papers have been laying off scores of journalists, for one thing: All publishers like the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press have done is create a small opening. Yes, they are reeling, but they are still taking […]