Student reporters charged with trespassing while reporting on trespassing

Last February I wrote an article looking at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a a nonprofit organization that tracks alleged violations
of free speech at colleges. Today, FIRE posted an interesting link on its Twitter account.
Apparently, two student journalists at The Breeze, the independent student newspaper at James Madison University, are facing charges from [...]

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French government hands out free newspapers

I wish I lived in France.
That may seem like a strange but fairly irrelevant statement, so for context, I’ll clarify that I hate France and all things French. I can’t stand the French language, French movies, French food…I can’t even stand most people who study French.
But with that said, this headline on NYTimes.com caught my [...]

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Major Daily Newspapers See Big Drop in Circulation

Well, it’s that time of year. The most depressing, humbling and upsetting day of the year: the release of the Audit Report of Circulations —which so kindly details how many people have stopped picking up newspapers over the last six months.
Editor and Publisher released circulation numbers for March-Sept. 2009, and as could be expected, numbers [...]

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Responding to Readers: Is it worth it?

This morning I saw an interesting article via Twitter from the Romenesko blog: WP ombud: It’s “suicidal” for reporters to ignore e-mails from readers.
In interest of full disclosure I need to clarify two things. The first, is that I tend to read most if not all articles I see from newspaper ombudsmen because this year [...]

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