You can be right and wrong (and crazy) in the same breath. Just check out BART spokesman Linton Johnson's quote to KRON-TV about the transit agency shutting off cell phone service to prevent messy protesting: "Outside the fare gates, that's the public forum area. Inside the public fare... read more...

I’ve long known that any manager’s success rests with the team working for you. Again, I am fortunate to have a great engagement team. Mandy Jenkins starts work today as digital projects editor for Digital First Media. In addition, I will be working with Martin G. Reynolds, Ivan Lajara and Dan Petty as regional engagement [...]

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If the Rockford police chief can add upwards of 100 volunteers to do office work, when do local retailers and businesses get to do the same? I’m sure that over the next few days everyone’s going to get all excited and supportive over the Rockford Police Department’s expansion of its Citizens Assisting Police program, which started last summer. After all, volunteering is an honorable human endeavor. We’re so accustomed to seeing those gray-haired retirees or chipper young

My friend Mike Beasley texted me Thursday night to let me know that he was available, if I wanted t...

Good morning, Bradenton.com users: We've launched!An entire crew has been here since 4:30 a.m., working out kinks and links and all kinds of techno bugs. But Bradenton.com has reintroduced itself -- and we think you're going to like it.Have a question? Here's the FAQ sheet on our site for starters. Here's a link

At 10:17 this morning a wonderfully conscientious student emailed me that she was caught in traffic and that she would be late for my 10:30 Business and Future of Journalism class. The young woman knows I abhor excuses but the next email shocked me. She sent me a picture of the traffic jam she was [...]

Perhaps you heard about the flap over public editor Arthur Brisbane's question, "Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?" He was asking whether the Times should correct 'facts' that newsmakers throw out and reporters quote widely such as a Supreme Court spokeswoman who said Clarence Thomas had "misunderstood" a financial disclosure form and candidate Mitt Romney saying President Obama has made speeches "apologizing for America." Readers responded with an aghast and outraged "yes." 

Ever since the Romenesko dustup, I have been thinking about how the digital frontier’s lack of rules has changed or is changing or is going to change long-cherished rules of journalism.read more

It was about this time of year 25 years ago that I decided it was time to buy a house. It seemed to me a mark of personal and financial security — this was well before the collapse of the mortgage industry, remember — and while I was approaching homeownership a bit later than some [...]

There were two kinds of bags at the Salvation Army’s Christmas Bureau when it opened 10 days ago. Those that bulged with gifts for needy children and those still creased…Click to Continue »