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Eric Newton: Journalism education suffers from ‘symphony of slowness’

Steve Myers — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:13:20 +0000

Knight Foundation | Common Sense Journalism
Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight, didn’t hold back in his criticism of the state of journalism education in a speech last week. Although he praised a handful of schools… Read more

Don Graham’s take from Facebook IPO: $38+ million

Steve Myers — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:36:36 +0000

CNBC | Forbes
Washington Post Co. chairman Don Graham, who sits on Facebook’s board of directors, has added about $31 million to his fortune of $500 million with Friday’s IPO. That counts the 770,000 shares of restricted stock he… Read more

Reporter fired after attributing lack of softball stats to ‘coach’s bullshit and laziness’

Steve Myers — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:59:15 +0000

Reporter fired after attributing lack of softball stats to ‘coach’s bullshit and laziness’

Freedom Communications sells Texas and Midwest properties

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:04:16 +0000

Odessa American | Orange County Register | Freedom
Freedom Communications announced the sale today of its Texas newspapers, including The Brownsville Herald, The Odessa American and The Harlingen Valley Morning Star. This follows news Thursday that it… Read more

The best questions from Jeopardy’s journalism ‘Power Players’ this week

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:35:48 +0000

It’s Jeopardy’s “Power Players” week, and J! Archive (which is the type of site that will make you believe in the Internet all over again) has clever interactive recaps of Monday through Wednesday’s shows. Fox News anchor Chris… Read more

Facebook IPO may force journalists to consider their role in the social network’s growth

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:33:02 +0000

CNN | GigaOm | BuzzFeed | The Atlantic
Facebook’s IPO just created a lot of billionaires. Probably not that many of them work in journalism. But journalists, Kristie Lu Stout argues, create part of Facebook’s… Read more

SPJ regional director in Oklahoma resigns after chapter funds go missing

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:17:55 +0000

This Land Press | The Oklahoman
Scott Cooper, the treasurer-secretary for the Society for Professional Journalists’ Oklahoma chapter and director of its Region 8, resigned Wednesday after an inquiry into $40,000 that was missing from the organization’s checking account.… Read more

Warren Buffett not yet done buying newspapers after purchasing 63 from Media General

Julie Moos — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:24:40 +0000

Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is buying 63 Media General newspapers, told the Omaha World-Herald, which he also owns, he’s not planning any future newspaper purchases, but he’d consider them:

“There aren’t a lot of buyers in

Survey: 52% of media professionals abandon websites when they hit a paywall

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:12:02 +0000

DigiCareers | eMarketer
A new survey found that more than half of media professionals polled immediately leave a website after encountering a paywall. One-quarter said they were unlikely to return to the site, and 63 percent said that… Read more

Look at these first-graders reciting the 5 Ws

Steve Myers — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:32:46 +0000

PBS NewsHour
NewsHour’s April Brown describes what she found when she went to a first-grade class at Melrose Elementary School, a journalism magnet school in St. Petersburg, Fla.

The question “What is a reporter?” was written on the white