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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Bob Mercer put it well: “A newswoman like no other.” That was the headline of his blog post today in which I learned Tena Haraldson is leaving her position as the Associated Press bureau chief for the Dakotas and Nebraska. Tena probably is a 35-year veteran of AP. I’m proud to say I’ve known her [...]            Tim January 19th, 2012 | Tags: journalism, Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostGiven American popular literature today, perhaps a person first seeing Vasily Grossman’s The Road on the bookshelves could be excused if they first wonder if it is vampire or zombie-laden mashup of Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning novel of the same name. Yet readers who actually pick up the book and explore it will discern that this [...] Tim October 18th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, journalism, Review Copy, short stories, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostNo one disputes the impact the digital age has had on journalism, particularly newspapers, so there’s a variety of ideas floating around to keep newspapers alive. The Federal Trade Commission’s staff just released a draft discussion report as a result of the FTC saying last year that it wanted to consider the challenges faced by [...] Tim June 15th, 2010 | Tags: copyright, journalism, Media, newspapers | Category: Media | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThe 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 processors in [...] Tim March 15th, 2010 | Tags: journalism, Media | Category: Media | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostIn honor of National Grammar Day … it IS “March Fourth” after all … do you have any grammar books? Punctuation? Writing guidelines? Style books? More importantly, have you read them? How do you feel about grammar in general? Important? Vital? Unnecessary? Fussy? I admit it upfront. The main — if not the only [...] Tim March 4th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, journalism | Category: Book Memes | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostYou would think I would automatically hail the advent of a new interweb book review site, especially one created by a well-respected national magazine. But I can’t say The New Republic did much to entice me when it announced its new online book review, The Book. In an online letter to “Friends of Books and [...] Tim January 14th, 2010 | Tags: blog, Books, Internet, journalism, Media | Category: A Reading Life, Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostYou may recall I posted last month about how a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee amendment to legislation creating a federal “reporters privilege” appeared to require that a person work for the mainstream media, thereby excluding most bloggers. Now it appears the committee will do a near complete reversal. Sens. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.) and Arlen Specter [...] Tim October 31st, 2009 | Tags: blogs, journalism, Law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostBoth houses of Congress are still considering legislation to create a federal “reporters privilege,” legislation that took different approaches for bloggers. At bottom, the difference was whether someone had to earn an income from blogging to be protected by the law. Now, an amendment in the Senate Judiciary Committee would not only abandon the Senate’s [...] Tim September 30th, 2009 | Tags: blogs, journalism, Law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | 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 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 Monday’s [...] Tim December 12th, 2007 | Tags: journalism, Media | Category: Media | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. 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