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An Attack on Free Press

UPDATED Arizona Republic: Sheriff’s deputies arrest ‘New Times’ owners. The charges stem from a story published under their byline in the Thursday edition of New Times, in which they describe a subpoena the paper reportedly received from a grand jury convened by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Lacey has been released from jail after posting […]

New Nonprofit Investigative Journalism Project

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 […]

Wikipedia Parent Moving to San Francisco

SF Chronicle: Wikimedia abandons Florida for San Francisco. The Wikimedia Foundation, the force behind the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is moving its headquarters to San Francisco this winter, further solidifying the Bay Area’s position as the epicenter of the Web 2.0 movement, which focuses on collaboration, community and user-generated content.

Contest for Employees Only: A Mistake

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 […]

Chauncey Bailey's Story Isn't Over

Editor & Publisher: Journos in Bay Area Launch ‘Chauncey Bailey Project’. In a collaboration reminiscent of the 1976 “Arizona Project,” more than two dozen San Francisco Bay Area journalists are launching the Chauncey Bailey Project to continue the investigative reporting the Oakland Post editor was pursuing when he was murdered on Aug. 2. This is […]

Chelyabinsk, Russia

These are students and faculty at Chelyabinsk State University in the heart of Russia, where I’m on a week-long visit to meet with journalists, scholars and media executives. The trip, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, has been eye-opening. It’s never a surprise to find bright, engaged people in other places. The world overflows with […]

Citizen Media from Burma

UPDATED SF Chronicle: Bloggers in Burma keep world informed during military crackdown. Dodging a deadly military crackdown that has killed at least nine protesters, Burmese bloggers are on the front lines, providing news and photos of death and insurrection. It’s more than bloggers, of course, but let’s go ahead and use that word as a […]

Falling for the Big-Dollar Lawsuit Claim

AP: Dan Rather files $70M suit against CBS. Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and his former bosses Wednesday, claiming they made him a “scapegoat” for a discredited story about President Bush’s military service during the Vietnam War. When, oh when, will journalists stop falling for the bogus PR stunts lawyers and […]

Claiming Prices as 'Intellectual Property'

Harvard Crimson: Coop Discourages Notetaking in Bookstore: Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said that while there is no Coop policy against individual students copying down book information, “we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes.” The apparent new policy could be a response to efforts by Crimsonreading.org—an online database that allows […]

Innovation on Display (and Rewarded)

J-Lab: TechPresident.com, a data-rich, nonpartisan group blog that covers real-time, online activity of the 2008 presidential candidates – and chronicles online content from voters who will elect them, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Bafflingly, the winning entries aren’t hyperlinked in the press release. You’ll find […]