September 2009

  • The Newspaper Revitalization Act

    By lisala on 9/30/09 8:11pm
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    This past March U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) introduced The Newspaper Revitalization Act; a proposal that would essentially allow newspapers to opt-in to a federally-funded program that would require them to be non-profit organizations. The press releases from the Senator's office notes the demise or drastic reduction in publishing frequency of a number of newspapers. These include the now Web-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Rocky Mountain News, the Baltimore Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. A number of these are well-respected publications with long histories and they have, like a number of smaller papers, either ceased daily publication or ceased entirely.

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  • Ledes/Leads and the News that You Might Care About

    By cobwebsandstrange on 9/24/09 5:28pm
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    Oh, journalism school. You require me to run through a series of seemingly inane exercises in the hopes of molding me into something that I’m not. While that sounds more difficult than it probably is, over the last few weeks, I’ve listened to you explain the difference between features, news stories and reviews. The only problem is that there really seems to be very little that separates each type of story.

    I’ve done as you’ve asked. I’ve even gone to see art that I don’t care about. So I hope that it all pays off…Klat readers…see the differences?

    5 Feature Ledes

    - Presented only as a study for a future work, Joseph Albers’ nestled brown squares actually appear to be a fully formed painting.

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