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Yikes.

No good news for Scripps, parent company of the Commercial Appeal. It’s bad: a loss of $19 million last quarter, whereas the company earned $44.7 the same quarter a year ago. Among every other source…


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Dam transparency

It was a good day for journos when President Obama declared he was in favor of transparency in government, and issued the memo instructing bureaucrats to, when in doubt, go ahead and release the data….


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Editor of the year, in video!

This follows up on my last post, and gives you somewhat of an idea of what it’s like to work at the Journal Sentinel. The video is really hilarious. The staff at the Milwaukee Journal…


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Editor of the year

I want to give some props to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and its executive editor, Marty Kaiser. Marty was just named Editor & Publisher’s Editor of the Year for 2009. The Journal Sentinel isn’t immune…


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Kanawha we hardly new ye

Saw this post the other day on Strange Maps, a great site for the cartographically inclined. The map is dated prior to Dec. 1861, when part of what is now West Virginia (where I was…