President for sale
9/11/2009 11:33:00 AM
The New York Times Syndicate raised the hackles of the nation's editorial writers last month by proposing to charge newspapers for an essay on health care by President Obama.
A slew of complaints from the editorial writers about having to pay for a sitting president's words prompted the syndicate to quickly reverse its policy and make the essay available for free.
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Stein. Stein. Anyone? Stein.
9/11/2009 11:32:00 AM
The New York Times has fired television and movie personality Ben Stein as a Sunday business columnist for violating the paper's ethics guidelines by hawking a questionably credible credit product.
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Good news and bad news
9/11/2009 11:31:00 AM
There was joke in our newsroom about the paper sponsoring a journalism scholarship.
None of us wanted to deal with the guilt sending a student into journalism.
But according to 2008 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Enrollments, the well publicized impending demise of our industry isn't killing enrollment at J-schools just yet, although grads are having a tougher time than ever finding work.
Enrollments in U.S. journalism and mass communication programs actually increased by 0.8 percent last fall compared to a year earlier. The rate is actually higher than the growth rate from 2005 to 2006, when the industry didn't appear in such dire straits.
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Always look on the bright side of life 9/11/2009 11:10:00 AM The Evening Standard in London earlier this year embarked on a three-week citywide publicity campai... Read More..
Optimism and a warning 9/11/2009 10:55:00 AM Bill Keller, executive editor for The New York Times, was the subject of Time magazine's 10 Questio... Read More..
AARP's Ooops 9/11/2009 10:51:00 AM The AARP recently sent out a letter to newspapers around the country about the Obama health care pl... Read More..
A modern site for editorial writers 9/11/2009 10:44:00 AM The National Conference of Editorial Writers has updated its Web site to enhance its quarterly publ... Read More..
Breaking down barriers 9/11/2009 10:39:00 AM The International Press Institute in November is hosting a "global dialogue platform" for executive... Read More..
The Kindle solution 9/11/2009 10:09:00 AM An article in the techy magazine "Wired" touts the benefits of Kindle as a potential savior of the ... Read More..
Onion abandons two cities. Really. 9/11/2009 9:31:00 AM We Americans love our fake news. But residents and visitors to San Francisco and Los Angeles lookin... Read More..