Molding Young Minds at UALR High School Journalism Day

Much thanks to the Sonny Rhodes and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for inviting me to speak during two sessions of UALR’s annual Journalism Day event, which took place Thursday.
Andrew DeMillo of The Associated Press gave the event’s keynote address on “Why Journalism Matters,” and other session leaders included Frank Fellone of the [...]

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephens Media End Northwest Arkansas Newspaper War

The war is over.
After suffering “significant financial losses during the current economic recession,” the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Stephens Media plan a joint venture in northwest Arkansas, the news organizations announced Thursday.
The joint venture would move forward if Stephens can’t find a buyer for its flagship newspaper, The Morning News. But Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman says [...]

Friday Week in Review: The Week We Were Barely Here

Who’s running this blog, anyway? Because one of the keys to successful blogging is that there be new posts on a semi-regular basis. And in that regard, we’ve been an utter failure this week! But we have been making the rounds to all the hottest health care town halls — it’s the new “in” thing. [...]

Inside the AP’s Plans to Protect Its Content

We’ve been reading some excellent posts and discussion this week on one of the Associated Press’ proposals to reinvent itself in the Web era. Much of that discussion has been spurred by Zachary Seward, blogging at the Neiman Journalism Lab. He’s run across a copy of an AP proposal called “Protect, Point, Pay — An [...]

Lock Down: The Democrat-Gazette Takes Free News Off the Web in Northwest Arkansas

It had to happen sometime.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette announced Sunday that, starting Aug. 5, its northwest Arkansas newspaper edition will no longer offer free access to print edition stories on the Web. Like content on the state edition of the paper at ArkansasOnline.com, NWANews.com will be accessible to paying subscribers only.
Publisher Walter Hussman, who’s been praised [...]

The Return of the Friday Week In Review

It’s Friday! It’s time to get back down to business and take a look back at the week that was, when we so much younger, more innocent, so full of life. So without further ado:
Speaker of the House Robbie Wills packed his bags for Taiwan. But not before enjoying a tasty lunch at Copper Grill [...]

Department of Bad Ideas: Let’s Ban Links to Save Print!

A U.S. Appeals Court judge, Richard Posner, blogs about the non-future of newspapers this week and floats the idea that — get this — banning links and paraphrasing copyrighted material might be necessary.
From the blog post:
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to [...]

Twitter Makes the AP Stylebook

Journalism style mavins taken note. Twitter is now part of the Associated Press Stylebook:
06/11/2009
AP Press Release
New edition of AP Stylebook adds entries and helpful features
NEW YORK — Twitter, the social networking tool that has turned millions of people around the world into instant micro-bloggers, has made it into the 2009 edition of The [...]

Media Notes: Blogfight! Plus, Google in Talks With Major Newspapers

More media notes for folks who love them some media!
Brummett v. Everyone – John Brummett quotes David Simon re: “newspapers, you’re gonna miss ‘em, etc.” and stirs up some lively debate from The Arkansas Project, Blake’s Think Tank and their respective commenters. It’s even inspired this helpful chart.
Micro Machines – The Wall Street Journal is [...]

Huffington Vs. AP on ‘Charlie Rose’ and Aggregator Envy

Huffington Post Editor Arianna Huffington and Associated Press CEO Tom Curley appeared on “Charlie Rose” last night to discuss journalism distribution on the digital age.
You can click here to see the full segment.
Curley’s argument: We’re not getting paid enough, so we plan to wall off content and create our own “landing page” which we’ll monetize. [...]