Vice President Joe Biden was on “The Daily Show” Tuesday night, being grilled, ever so lightly, by host Jon Stewart on why unemployment was so high and the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus package seems to be producing so few…

Not every president in the last 35 years has considered Richard Nixon a role model. But our current POTUS seems to . When the darkly fascinating Mr. Nixon declared Charles Manson guilty of murder before that 1970 trial was over, there was only a small intake of national breath. What about... read more...

News organizations are belatedly, reluctantly and often awkwardly pursuing “web-first” strategies. As we fight these web battles, I am increasingly coming to believe that “web first” is what the military would call fighting the last war. News organizations need a mobile-first strategy. “Web first” was a tremendously difficult concept for journalists and newspaper companies. Publishers and editors [...]

What if you could watch TV straight from the Internet?

When I moved to town in 1991, I built a something I loosely named the “must call back” list. The list has morphed many times over almost two decades, but for much of that time the Top 20 remained reasonably consistent — allowing for the occasional retirement, unexpected death or new player in town. The call [...]

The Tallahassee Democrat family is hurting right now as we grieve the loss of this good man. I will miss this man even more than I will miss his work. God bless Karen Ellis.

Regular visitors to Bradenton.com may have noticed most of our staff blogs are now on the bottom right of the home page. And all of the columnists now are posted at bradenton.com/columnists/.You still can find the blogs grouped at bradenton.com/news/blogs/, but we're hoping to turn up their profiles. And, frankly, we're blogging more often than columnizing.We plan to add a law enforcement blog and rev up our business blog again. Have a blog you'd

Bay Windows has offered an interesting angle on the demise of a chain of gay-themed newspapers, slamming the parent company for numerous errors in judgement. But one of the most jarring aspects of this whole story is the way some staffers found out about the end of their jobs – a note taped to a door.

I cannot remember anything about the day in 1988 that the Supreme Court issued its decision on Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. I cannot remember if my newspaper made a very big deal out of it, but the decision embarrasses the heck out me 20 years later. The Supreme Court ruled in Hazelwood that high [...]

OK that's too much punning and metaphorization but hey it's my blog. Following my last post about how articles are morphing into topics, on Old Media New Tricks, Robert Quigley details his first attempt to use Wave to cover a topic -- Austin News: I posted a link to the Texas constitutional amendments that are up for a vote, and people immediately began discussing why anyone should care about them, which are the the

By Gene Policinski Chicago prosecutors looking into how college journalists gathered info on man convicted in killing might spend their time better inquiring into whether the man was really guilty.

A nice story:On Tuesday, we published a story on the front page about Greensboro Urban Ministry's need for $100,000 to operate its emergency shelters.read more

If you’re not a basketball fan, you probably don’t know who Edwin Ubiles is. Maybe some of the people who called and wrote to complain about a story we published Sunday about Ubiles didn’t realize that he is already a pretty well-known guy in this community, and about to be more so. Ubiles is a star [...]

I’m often asked about whether I have hope for the future of journalism. So when my friend, Gordon Govier, asked me to speak at a luncheon for the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence awards, it seemed like a good forum to talk about where I see things heading. “What’s on the other side: A call [...]

The Buffalo News, its critics will be quick to tell you, is one of those ultra-liberal newspapers. Its editorial page is way left of center and it hasn't endorsed a Republican for any office since William Howard Taft.

Image via CrunchBaseThe newspaper industry's claims that Google is taking its money have always made me wonder how much of the company's revenue actually comes from ads related to news stories or searches. My gut has been not much.I don't know the answer. But these comments in England by the country's top Google exec reinforce my view. If he's right, what does it mean for the newspaper industry? Do you believe him?Here's what Matt Brittin is read more...

It is pretty apparent to most of us at the newspaper that the online reader is often very different from the print reader. The two readers should also understand that the news is displayed in different ways too. We have come to use poststar.com as the conduit for breaking news whether that is a double fatal car [...]