Month: January 2011

  • Plan now for the next national breaking news story in your community

    Arizona Daily Star managing editor Teri Hayt shares some lessons learned for the newspaper in the Tucson shootings. Would you be ready? Related articles Jared Loughner Pleads Not Guilty in Tucson Shooting Rampage (politicsdaily.com) Shooting victim held in alleged threat at forum – Arizona Daily Star (news.google.com) Arizona lawmakers to leave empty seat for Giffords…

  • We need universities smart enough to fix the potholes

    First, thanks to Dave Cohn for reviving the Carnival of Journalism. We haven’t put up the big tent in a long while. For this carnival, a number of journalism bloggers have been asked by Cohn to write about one topic: The changing role of Universities for the information needs of a community: One of the…

  • Top newspaper stocks in 2010

    The two strongest gainers were A.H. Belo and E.W. Scripps — Rick Edmonds at Poynter.org Click on the above link to see his list, but Belo was up 51 percent and Scripps was up 46 percent. Those are pretty good gains for an industry some had begun to write off less than two years ago,…