Journos: Beware of dirty headlines

The University of Kansas has hired Turner Gill to replace Mark Mangino as the Jayhawk football head coach. KUSports.com will be streaming today’s press conference about the hiring. It is scheduled for 11 a.m.
From a journalistic perspective, this whole ordeal has been interesting, giving journalists much to writing and opine about. Of course, the most [...]

Student forced to pay $675,000 for illegal downloads

In July, a federal jury in Boston ordered Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student from Providence, R.I., to pay four record labels $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs.
Isn’t that a pretty big price tag for 30 songs? I think so.
But now it is getting worse for Tenenbaum. Now he is being forced [...]

Editor cuts herself from the budget

The editor of The Oregonian, which serves the Portland, Ore., area, has done something pretty cool to save the jobs of her fellow employees.
She decided to retire and remove her salary from the budget, which is going to prevent some staffers from being laid off.
Sandy Rowe made this announcement Monday.
In an e-mail to [...]

Google partners with NYT, WaPo to create ‘living story pages’

Today The Washington Post announced the start of a new partnership with Google.
The search-engine giant is working with WaPo and The New York Times to create Living Story Pages, which are designed to serve as a place where all content about a given topic can be found.
The Living Stories [...]

Cartoon: street journalist

Twitter.com is a great place to find cool, interesting and funny things.
I stumbled upon this one the other day. As a journalist with a unique sense of humor, I find it hilarious: