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SF Chronicle: Chronicle gets array of national honors. The Chronicle staff won more than two dozen national awards in a slew of prestigious contests, including a strong showing in an international “Picture of the Year” competition. Mercury News: Mercury News Honored. The San Jose Mercury News received top recognition for photography and design in two […]

Evidence of a blogging business bubble?

Tom Evslin: AT&T is Ripping Off American Soldiers. It’s bad enough that they overcharge domestic customers but we have alternatives. The soldiers don’t because, according to The Prepaid Press, AT&T has an EXCLUSIVE contract to put payphones in PXes in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, you ask, can’t the soldiers get cheap calling cards to call […]

Editor & Publisher: South Dakota’s Top Paper Refuses To Editorialize On Abortion Ban. “Part of it was that we wouldn’t change people’s minds, and part of it, regardless of which side we came down on this, is that people would read into it things that are not true,” Chuck Baldwin, editorial page editor of the […]

This center is co-hosting a gathering this May called “Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture,” to be held at Harvard Law School. Check out the conference wiki for more information.

Reuters: Google lets slip talk of online storage service: Google Inc. is preparing to offer online storage to Web users, creating a mirror image of data stored on consumer hard drives, according to company documents that were mistakenly released on the Web. The existence of the previously rumored GDrive online storage service surfaced after a […]

UPDATED NY Times: Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in Its Public Relations Campaign. Under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters. But the strategy raises questions about what […]

Terry Heaton: TV News in a Postmodern World: New Metrics and Principles: What’s needed is a new metaphor to replace the old one, and new metrics upon which to place value in a world of unbundled media. The value will be there, because access to eyeballs (or eardrums) will always have value. But those eyeballs […]

If you don’t read it already, Digg has been the hot site in finding the latest Internet buzz among techies. The social bookmarking site allows users to vote on what sites are hot by adding their “digg” vote to the raw list of contributions. However, it has always been hampered by a weak comments feature, […]

AP: Reports: AT&T, BellSouth near$65B deal. AT&T is nearing a deal to acquire BellSouth Corp. for $65 billion, according to reports published Sunday. The companies were expected to announce the terms of the deal as soon as Monday, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Both papers cited unidentified sources, […]