In "Say It Ain't So, Izzy," the New Haven Independent's Paul Bass reviews a recent controversy over investigative journalist I. F. Stone's contacts with the Soviet Union... back when there was one. Apparently, Stone was someone the Soviet KGB talked to often enough in the 1930s to' [...] 
Linking "off site" was an early feature of blogs that commercial newspapers' sites were slow to adopt, for fear of letting the reader escape to the other distractions of the Web. 
Seeing a new media ecologyMy headline takes some liberties with Stephen Berlin Johnson's ecological metaphor for the current transition in the reporting and delivery of news, but I recommend his essay, one of several good ones this week on saving the news [...]
A friend just passed along a link to this item from Newsday, a Walt Handlesman animated editorial cartoon of primary interest to Baby Boomers, especially those who are or were Steppenwolf fans (mp3 sample)... but also probably of [...]
Here's Wesch's website with a huge discussion of the video:
[mediatedcultures.net]
Among other new [...]
No time today for careful commentary or even an attempt to craft transitions between news items while suffering the flaky outages of my municipal wifi system... but just enough time for some aggregation and juxtaposition from The New York Times. Insert your own art or irony.
From today's New York Times: The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web,
The Web Time Forgot
"In [...]
"The concept is simple, let people watch news [...]
Editor & Publisher Tim W. Jackson, an adjunct journalism prof at Radford, announced the change in the latest issue, along with a note saying the print [...]
Play the pipes lowly. We missed it."...it is impossible not to wonder what will become of not just news but democracy itself, in a world in which [...]
It was believed at one point [...]
When I was in high school, Phil Ochs' album "All the News that's Fit to Sing" convinced me that I needed a better guitar case than my crushable cardboard one... and a subscription to The New York Times. It also had a song that [...] 
The news of Marharishi Mahesh Yogi's death reminded me of one of the first pictures I took as a newspaper reporter... one that I don't think was ever published, possibly for lack of today's Internet technology. So I dug through some boxes and dusted [...] 
on on what to look for in covering pre-election polls, introduced as follows:
Just as my introductory news writing students started beating their way through the snow to buy Tim Harrower's Inside Reporting and read its introductory chapter on "Newsroom heroes, legends and folklore," journalism educators' weblogs are aflurry with a discussion of just which heroes [...] From the Independent Lens website, which also includes a preview clip:
Over the last 20 years, public trust in the press has steadily declined. Documenting a crisis-filled year at Pennsylvania State University's campus newspaper, The Daily Collegian, THE PAPER explores the vital role of the press from a fresh perspective: America's [...]
Would adding a civics and public affairs section to standard college-admission tests make high school and college students better readers of public affairs news? It might be worth a try, as a way to counter students' all-entertainment-all-the-time media diet. 
Newspapers appear to be taking to the new "I'm a fan of..." feature in Facebook... but I was wondering why The New York Times shows up on my "Fan of.." list as a "product," while The Roanoke Times (no relation) is a "store."
OK, I'm late with this... but I just ran into Kevin Tapp from Radford University's McConnell Library, and he is using a blog -- with room for comments [...] The Roanoke Sun, a new free weekly paper, hit the streets of the Roanoke Valley on Friday.
It is being published by former city hall spokesman Chris Slone, who worked for the city during ex-Mayor Ralph Smith's [...]
For a post-mortem analysis of a Halloween assignment in using specific details in descriptive writing, I sent students to the Nov. 1 video at Rocketboom to be spectators at the New York City Halloween parade. 
I mention "RSS readers" in class a lot. There are simple readers built
into browsers now, and sites like my.yahoo, Google reader and my.nytimes.com allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds. 
I decided to dust off my Harvard Red Liner weblog to point old friends to my new position here at Radford... 
Find out here: Pew Internet Typology Test
Omnivores make up 8% of the American public.
"Members of this group use their extensive suite of technology tools to
do an enormous range of things online, on the go, and with their cell
phones. Omnivores are highly engaged with video online and digital
content. [...]
I'll add more detail to these links [...]
Reporter Anna L. Mallory's story is accompanied by a photo of Chris Carter, the media studies [...]
The man who put 