Newsdesigner links to a discussion about doglegs. Infomaniac links to a photographer at a smalltown paper who frets that we’re getting Poynterized. Our editor has signed all the reporters up to receive the daily blog called Al’s Morning Meeting. It…
Month: December 2003
Former Tampa Trib reporter dies
Frank Ruiz, 57, was a longtime business reporter who left the Trib in 2000. I remember the byline but never knew him when I was there. Here’s a link to his consultancy business.
Overdue link payback
These are sites that have linked to Prints the Chaff since early October, the last time I did a link payback. There are tools to do this automatically but I like doing it by hand, because it’s entertaining finding out…
Vote for Tim!
Tim Porter’s blog is one of the nominees for Best Journalist/Media blog in Blogger Awards 2003. Get over there and vote for his site … let’s see how high we can push him up in the rankings.
More newsie links
Saul Daniels of the L.A Times sent these links along: http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/privacy.html http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/a.html http://herex0.tripod.com http://college.links.tripod.com
Missing blogging pioneer doesn’t want to be found
Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom weblog is OK, Wired News reports. But he wants to be left alone.
SoCal environmental reporting
LAObserved links to a mountain lion chase, and offers insight on the La Brea Tar Pits.
You’ll know it’s a just world
When Michael Wolff has to write headlines for a living. So far his latest book is a flop: But Wolff’s often-funny and biting look at the media has run up disappointing sales, showing readers may be less curious about the…
Guilty as charged
William Powers in the National Journal: If you’re a respectable media outlet doing a Jackson story, there’s a kind of purification rite you have to perform, in which you demonstrate that although you yourself are technically part of the feeding…
Ouch
Romenesko had this yesterday: Dancer we said was dead actually is alive. Now get this: The obituary was based on one in The Daily Telegraph of London on Nov. 29. The Times was unable to confirm her death independently and,…