Retired AP Journo Makes Huge Endowment to Indiana University
Indiana University says a $1.75 million donation from retired Associated Press reporter and editor Marty Anderson will endow a scholarship fund for journalism students. The university announced Tuesday the creation of the Ann and Marty Anderson Scholarship in Journalism with the largest individual gift ever to the School of Journalism.
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September 07, 2010
Locked-out 'Journal de Montreal' Workers to Launch Weekly Tab
Just before the Labor Day weekend, locked-out workers for the Journal de Montreal announced plans to publish this fall a free weekly, Rue Frontenac, as an extension of the workers' Website, launched early last year. Quebecor's Journal continues to publish. Besides copies hawked on street corners by workers calling attention to their dispute, the 48-page tabloid will distribute at least 50,000 copies through newsstands, with broader content than what is offered at the Website.
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September 07, 2010
Poland's 'Metro' Named Young Reader Newspaper of Year
Metro in Poland was named 2010 World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishing (WAN-IFRA). Metro also won the top prize for public service with its widely followed debate and educational campaign that encouraged young readers to question their attitudes about Internet piracy. World Young Reader Prizes recognize the best projects and activities to promote newspaper reading, on all platforms, among those under 25. The South Florida Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, won in the Enduring Excellence category for its Teenlink editorial supplement.
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September 07, 2010
Wikipedia Founder: Embrace the Mobile Model Now
The increasing use of the mobile Internet and for-pay "apps" that run on smart phones and other gadgets might give news providers what they've been searching for: a way to charge for digital content, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells The Associated Press. As founder of one of the world's most popular websites, the 44-year-old American is a key Internet entrepreneur.
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September 07, 2010
'Straits Times' Takes 2010 Young Reader NIE Prize
Singapore Press Holdings' The Straits Times took top honors its effort to reach younger readers, when the newspaper's weekly news magazine for students, IN, won the 2010 Young Reader Prize in the Newspapers in Education category, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has announced.
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September 06, 2010
Americas Extra/Pan-Am Highway
Latin American newspapers are in a good place right now, as this space discussed in the August issue of E&P. While North American papers struggle to reverse the decline of recent years, Latin American dailies have grown circulation by more than 20% in just the past three years — and are projected to increase revenue at an annual rate of 5.1% for the foreseeable future.
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September 01, 2010
The Ethics of WikiLeaks: Setting the ‘Agenda’?
In the weeks that followed, the site that once barely registered on the media radar became both a hot topic for ethical debate and a new media force to be reckoned with. While praised by some, others spoke out against the very idea of publishing classified information, and others questioned WikiLeaks’ motives.
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September 01, 2010
Content Management System Seeks to Help Papers Bulk up on High School Sports Coverage
At Dorf Media, Gary Dorfman, the founder’s son and company president, sees an opportunity to offer his new Sports Gathering CMS industry-wide because other solutions in his view aren’t geared to the peculiarities of prep sports. It’s been a long development process: six months of talks to be sure he had the right software developer and another 30 months to create a CMS “designed by writers and editors, for writers and editors,” he says.
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September 01, 2010
'Orlando Sentinel' Editor Charlotte Hall Retires
Orlando Sentinel Editor Charlotte H. Hall has told her newsroom that she will retire Oct. 1. Named Sentinel editor and vice president in March 2004, replacing Timothy Franklin, Hall was elected president of the American Society of News Editors in 2008. Before moving to Florida, Hall spent 22 years at Newsday, Melville, N.Y., where she rose from copy desk chief to managing editor but also served on the business side as marketing director and vice president for planning.
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September 01, 2010
'NYT' Memo on Anonymous Sources Offers Helpful Hints
The New York Times is not unlike many other newspapers when it comes to addressing anonymous sources in stories — which is to say, it often doesn’t often inform the reader why the source wishes or needs to remain unnamed. But in a memo to staffers on Monday, Standards Editor Phil Corbett offers some useful, insightful tips on how to be more descriptive in briefly detailing why a source needs the protection of anonymity.
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September 01, 2010
AP Names North America Editor
Maria Sanminiatelli, a veteran journalist who has covered news for The Associated Press in Europe and the United States, has been named North America editor, responsible for U.S. news coverage targeted for audiences outside North America as well as Canada and the United Nations.
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August 31, 2010
‘Deseret News’ Lays Off 43% of Staff in Sweeping Newsroom Reorganiztion
Like USA Today last week, The Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah, Tuesday unveiled a sweeping newsroom reorganization combined with layoffs. In its case, the Mormon Church-owned daily is reducing its workforce by 43%, shedding 57 full-time and 28 part-time employees.
Among those losing their jobs are Editor Joe Cannon and Publisher Jim Wall (left).
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August 31, 2010
Oil Spill Over? Not for the AP, With Three New Appointments
While many media outlets have moved on from the Gulf oil spill as a major story, The Associated Press is staying on to follow the fallout from the largest such disaster in U.S. history. The AP has appointed Harry Weber, Brian Skoloff and Pat Semansky to three new positions covering the spill and its aftermath.
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August 30, 2010
Teachers Unions Blast 'L.A. Times' for Publishing Controversial Results
When the Los Angeles Times posted report cards for about 6,000 elementary schoolteachers — allowing readers to see which teachers are most effective in raising students’ performance on standardized tests — it couched that info by noting it was “not a complete measure of a teacher by any means, but offer one way to see whether an instructor is helping or hindering children in grasping what the state says they should know.” But try telling that to the teachers’ union.
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August 30, 2010