The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism today released its seventh annual report on The State of the News Media. While it covers all variety of media, it certainly bears out the concerns about my old stomping ground — newspapers. (I’m old enough to remember the transition from typewriters to word [...]
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 Print This Post |  Email This PostIndex on Censorship bills itself as “Britain’s leading organisation promoting freedom of expression.” So it isn’t surprising it would be interested in the decision earlier this year by the Yale University Press to publish The Cartoons That Shook the World, an account of the uproar and riots that occurred in September 2005 when a [...] Tim December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: censorship, Media | Category: Media | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostLast week, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent to the Senate floor a version of the Free Flow of Information Act that appears to include bloggers. Briefly stated, a shield law protects journalists from having to disclose sources to prosecutors unless certain requirements are met. One of the battles to date is who would be protected [...] Tim December 14th, 2009 | Tags: blogs, Law, shield law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law, Media | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostWe hear a lot lately about the struggles of traditional news media in the Internet age. But it seems a lot of people believe the damage may be self-inflicted. A new study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press indicates the fewest number of people in more than two decades believe [...] Tim September 15th, 2009 | Tags: journalism, local media, Media, television | Category: Media | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostAs a former newspaper reporter, I’m one who is still addicted to and tends to bemoan the disappearance and struggles of daily newspapers. That’s despite the fact that a lot of newspapers aren’t what they once were (and who am I to really judge whether that’s good or bad.) U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D.-Md.) has [...] Tim March 25th, 2009 | Tags: Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostFor a number of weeks, I’ve been observing the coverage of a news story in which I was somewhat involved. While I’m proud of the years I spent as a journalist, my view of the profession — already damaged when I left it — wasn’t bolstered by what I saw. I don’t think I’m breaking [...] Tim February 27th, 2009 | Tags: local media, South Dakota Supreme Court | Category: Media, Personal/Family | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostThis weekend marked the end of two eras in South Dakota, one in the press and one in music. Although public knowledge for a while, Terry Woster officially said good bye Sunday with a front page column in the local daily. After 40 years in the news business, Terry took an early retirement package as [...] Tim December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: local media, Music, South Dakota miscellany | Category: Media, Music, State and local matters | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostThe hectic nature of the last couple weeks combined with the frigid temperatures to turn my ambition to molasses. PP eliminated any doubt of that with a post last night that echoed exactly what I thought but was too lazy to research and write a post about. Simply summarized, it seems Argus Exec [...] Tim February 21st, 2008 | Tags: blogs, local media, Media | Category: Blog/Internet, Media | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostThat’s my name for it but Regret The Error has announced its annual awards in media errors and corrections, which it calls Crunks 2007. The scope and variety of awards makes the entirety worth reading. Yet the following correction from The Sentinel-Review in Woodstock, Ontario, probably ranks as my favorite: In an article in [...] Tim December 12th, 2007 | Tags: journalism, Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s one of those things that leaves a horrible feeling in your gut. This afternoon, my RSS reader popped up a South Dakota media blog post that Ron Bender of Rapid City was killed Monday in a hit-and-run accident in Gaithersburg, Md. Ron and his wife, Muriel Shepard, were at the Rapid City Journal when [...] Tim November 27th, 2007 | Tags: local media, Media | Category: Media, Personal/Family | Comments are closed |
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