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1. The News Frontier

   And Then There Were Two

   August 25, 2011 05:22 PM

   Some forty journalists will lose their jobs in November, when the Bay Area News Group squeezes eleven community newspapers down to two. BANG announced Tuesday that it would fold The Contra Costa Times, San Ramon Valley Times, East County Times,... Continue reading

2. The News Frontier

   From Commenter to Contributor

   August 24, 2011 04:30 PM

   During a string of “boring, terrible” office jobs, Gabriel Delahaye started to regularly comment on Gawker’s articles. He wasn’t just doing this for fun. He had every intention of getting himself noticed: e-mailing tips to the editors and just... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   Web First, Print Later

   August 17, 2011 10:33 AM

   When Knight Foundation executive John Bracken said that “Print is the new vinyl” this weekend, the point of his comparison seemed lost on many. In a post on the Knight Foundation blog, Bracken clarified his metaphor:... Continue reading

4. The News Frontier

   Lessons from the Seattle PostGlobe

   August 12, 2011 04:21 PM

   When, in 2009, Hearst announced that it had decided to close the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the newspaper’s staffers were beset by disbelief, sadness, and imminent unemployment. As staff photographer Paul Joseph Brown wrote for CJR in 2009, the entire... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   Borders’ Newsstand Blues

   August 11, 2011 06:01 PM

   Just like plenty of other Borders shoppers, Kevin Walter has been getting messages in his inbox from the bankrupt book behemoth, reminding him to hurry in and take advantage of the storewide clearance before all 399 remaining Borders stores are... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   A Tale of Two Paywalls

   August 9, 2011 05:41 PM

   In Honolulu, the Civil Beat, a subscription-based online news site, has been drawing a line in the white hot Hawaiian sand and asking the state’s news consumers to choose a corner: new media startup vs. legacy media organization. ... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Employees at The Bay Citizen Form a Union

   July 28, 2011 09:26 AM

   New media workers aligned with old labor standards last night, as The Bay Citizen’s unionization got the official stamp of approval from the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, the Pacific Media Workers Guild released a <a... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   A River Runs Through It

   July 27, 2011 05:15 PM

   While students at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Andrew McGlashen and Jeff Gillies started thinking, like so many J-schoolers, about how to turn the skills they were learning into a career. Their prospects didn’t... Continue reading

9. Behind the News

   Around the World in Two and a Half Weeks

   July 22, 2011 03:15 PM

   July 22 What The Guardian Can Learn from Watergate CoverageOn the importance of making the “right” mistakes By Craig Silverman CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal Questions raised... Continue reading

10. The News Frontier

    A Visualization of Newspapers’ History

    July 18, 2011 01:50 PM

    Did newspapers make the west, or did the west make newspapers? This is one of the questions that drives Geoff McGhee and his colleagues at The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford. McGhee is part of... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    Unemployment Lines

    July 15, 2011 11:34 AM

    Unemployment coverage is often so dominated by sterile numbers and political pontification that it can seem like a lonely, cold world out there for the actual humans who are affected by this economy. Where many media outlets have given their... Continue reading

12. The News Frontier

    Mommy Bloggers Cover the Casey Anthony Trial

    July 13, 2011 10:17 AM

    Debi Cruz-Beck blogs almost everyday about motherhood, parenting and the like for her popular blog, The Truth About Motherhood. She writes with a distinctly snarky tone, particularly on Thursdays in her weekly wag-of-the-finger “Throat Punch Thursday” column. The week... Continue reading

13. The News Frontier

    Q&A: Luke Stangel, Co-Creator of TapIn Bay Area

    July 12, 2011 12:07 PM

    This week, Bay Area News Group—publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, and several other newspapers—will release a new map-based mobile news application called TapIn Bay Area. As Luke Stangel, one of its creators, described it, “Imagine... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    The Hack that Broke the Camel’s Back

    July 5, 2011 04:30 PM

    The scandal surrounding News Corp’s British tabloid News of the World and their practice of hacking into peoples’ voicemail accounts for scoops has escalated. Initial news of the paper’s hacking habits was mostly met with silence by the British press,... Continue reading

15. Guide to Online News Startups

    Plunderbund

    October 31, 2011 11:46 AM

    HAMILTON, OHIO — Like many political news sites, Plunderbund was born out of frustration. Ohio-based writer Eric Vessels had been disengaged from politics... Continue reading

16. Guide to Online News Startups

    InsideClimate News

    October 24, 2011 07:04 PM

    BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — After experimenting with a variety of quick-hit approaches to environmental coverage, a four-year-old online news startup focused on climate change is... Continue reading

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