Like many proud parents, I bawled like a baby as my daughter crossed into a new phase of her life on graduation day. Actually, I spilled the...

“Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.’” —Jef Mallett I found this quote looking for a good web site about ...

Comments online intrigue me and a Frazz comic inspires me to speak up today. I'm a gray person who often wears rose-colored glasses so ...

Laughter is not a bad thing and when putting together the post on the need for department stores, newspapers and journalists , I realized th...

Last week, the Buzz Bin posted old news: Newspapers are like Department Stores . It's just one more of many opinion pieces explaining wh...

I stumbled across comforting words in a blog post on on a night I was irritated by what seemed to be a useless, unorganized meeting that f...

The Star-Ledger in New Jersey is praised for how upcoming pay cuts were determined. David Cay Johnson, in a post on Poynter, liked that the...

Update: Some folks will twitter about the event using #rethinknews hash tag. New web site: msujrn.org Michigan State University is one of th...

Our household finally managed to nab a copy of the movie Doubt when I'm having lots of doubts. I want to grab the opening lines as they ...

Was it playing in the neighborhood park? Did we expose them to something on joint vacations? Or feed them bad food at family meals? My daugh...

An email alerted a blogger that another movie critic will no longer review movies for $$. What I like best is the list that ends the post. ...

Jonathan Tilove was a reporter for more than 30 years, most of them at the Newhouse bureau in Washington. He's been bouncing around late...

I routinely use bits of comics in cards that I make. I admire cartoonists for their ability to sum up the complex simply. Did you see this o...

Imagine my surprise when an an item from The Web Town Observer blog reported an upcoming name change at Syracuse University. My first reac...

Michigan editor John Hiner tells a radio audience of a plan to make obituary information available via phone. The statement came during a d...

Michigan editor John Hiner responds to my questions on an ad for Valley Publishing and replacement staff at three newspapers in comments a...

Todd Seibt helped clear up some confusion over pensions from The Flint Journal in   freefromeditors: Pension is frozen, not terminated S...

Editors of two newspapers in the Advance Publications (Newhouse newspapers group) are out on the web about the plight of newspapers. Oregoni...

A bunch of folks gathered in Philadelphia on Saturday to discuss innovations in news at BarCamp Philly. Many shared what was happening via ...

Check out this SlideShare Presentation from Matt Mansfield - presented at SND Orlando Invent the Future Summit April 17, 2009. Also discusse...