The Media Drop

The Winston-Salem Journal has the story about the Craven Community College student newspaper, the Campus Communicator, who has pulled its sex advice column and has been informed that the newspaper would face a review by “a panel of students and administrators” going forward.

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Rox Pop posts a column by Philadelphia City Paper publisher Paul Curci about the recent blowout of video news releases being run on television news programs across the country, and what needs to be done about it. Read the whole thing.
Additionally, the following letter was sent by Boston University journalism department chair Bob Zelnick […]

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The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik reported Thursday that Maryland Public Television has cancelled “Wall Street Week,” the financial show that has run on public stations for decades. The show, previously hosted by Louis Rukeyser, has been unable to keep ratings and financing since he left the program in 2002.

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CNN picks up the AP story about the retirement of Howard Reig, staff announcer for NBC. He’s the man you’ve probably heard say “This is NBC Nightly News” if you’ve ever watched the program from its intro - and he’s leaving the broadcasting company after 62 years.

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If there’s one thing you can learn while working as a journalist (or just playing one on your blog), it’s that information is everywhere. Tons of it. Company performance information, mergers & acquisition rumors, hirings and firings, new products-to-be, and much more. The important thing is knowing what to pursue, and what […]

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The AP reports Thursday that Judith Ann Bruhn Serrin, 58, onetime Detroit Free Press and New York Times reporter, died last weekend in New York.

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The AP’s David Kravets writes about a big of a conundrum that the legal system is in surrounding free speech rights on the web, and who can “govern” them. At the center of the situation is a court ruling in France that said that a U.S.-based company (Yahoo!) was liable for Nazi materials that […]

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The transcript from Tuesday’s “The Impact of the New Media” session at the Brookings Institution can be found online here, in PDF format.

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The Winston-Salem Journal’s Mike Mulhern writes Wednesday about Time, Inc.’s latest addition to the publishing family - Racing Fan. The pub, all about auto racing, is probably a long time coming, I’ll agree. But it really isn’t too surprising that it took NASCAR’s ascent towards the mainstream for a publisher in the U.S. […]

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NJ.com’s John Shabe wasn’t disappointed with the media folk that shared the dinner spot he was at last night, the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room. Looks like CBS News’ Don Hewitt & Leslie Stahl were there, but one of them had a bit of trouble staying awake.

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