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An interesting video clip the Miami Herald posted on its website:
This is a SPJ press release issued September 21, 1009 INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists hired Interim Co-Executive Director Joe Skeel as its permanent Executive Director today. Skeel follows Terry Harper, who passed away on June 2 after a two-year battle with brain cancer. “After an exhaustive search of 180 candidates, we feel [...]
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Boca Raton News Shut Down At a staff meeting today, Boca Raton News Publisher informed the newspaper’s staff of 24 people that the 54-year-old newspaper was being shut down immediately. Sunday’s newspaper will be its last…
Alix Cohen of Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida was named the First Place winner of the Society of Professional Journalist’s 2009 High School Essay Contest. Read the press release: Winners of 2009 High School Essay Contest
Chaos is indeed journalism’s lot, as Professor Shirky observes. However, some salient trends are visible, and there is no harm in extrapolating from them — not to predict the future, but to help us prepare for what Herman Kahn called “surprise-free scenarios.” Phillip Meyer’s essay
Recovering Journalist: You Can’t Charge For Something That Doesn’t Provide Value “Lionel Barber, the editor of the Financial Times, has gone out on a limb and predicted that “almost all” news sites will be charging for access to their content within a year. Almost all? Really? Seriously? I’ll have whatever he’s smoking…”
AUTHORED BY: DAVE AEIKENS, SPJ PRESIDENT INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists is saddened to announce the passing of Executive Director Terry Harper, who died today after a two-year struggle with brain cancer. Harper, who served from February 2002 through May 2009, took the helm of SPJ after a series of short-term executive directors. [...]
Newspapers’ salvation: Google, gadgets and gumption?