Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts

Thursday, June 4, 2015

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Not a good pic but Woodruff and Hunt are being introduced by Pres Casey





Sunday Afternoon, April 15, 2012


For more information: see “Washington insiders to speak on campus,” http://www.mcdaniel.edu/12054.htm, on the McDaniel College website, http://www.mcdaniel.edu/.

McDaniel College hosts a “Conversation with Washington Insiders” at 2:30 p.m. April 15, featuring a discussion with Washington, D.C., journalists and husband and wife, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News and Judy Woodruff of “PBS NewsHour.”

Dr. Roger Casey, president of McDaniel, moderates the hour-long event, which is free and open to the public. Questions and answers also will be solicited from the audience.

Al Hunt is executive editor of Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C. He was formerly a congressional and national political reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor for The Wall Street Journal for 35 years. He has served as a panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and PBS’ “Washington in Review,” as well as political analyst on CBS Morning News, and a panelist on CNN’s “The Capital Gang” and “Novak, Hunt & Shields.”


Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news as a television journalist at CNN, NBC, and PBS for more than three decades. She served as co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” chief Washington correspondent for PBS’ “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” and anchored the award-winning weekly documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” She was an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN for 12 years, anchoring the weekday political program, “Inside Politics.”


Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt speak at McDaniel College this afternoon



Sunday Afternoon, April 15, 2012


For more information: see “Washington insiders to speak on campus,” http://www.mcdaniel.edu/12054.htm, on the McDaniel College website, http://www.mcdaniel.edu/.

McDaniel College hosts a “Conversation with Washington Insiders” at 2:30 p.m. April 15, featuring a discussion with Washington, D.C., journalists and husband and wife, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News and Judy Woodruff of “PBS NewsHour.”

Dr. Roger Casey, president of McDaniel, moderates the hour-long event, which is free and open to the public. Questions and answers also will be solicited from the audience.

Al Hunt is executive editor of Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C. He was formerly a congressional and national political reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor for The Wall Street Journal for 35 years. He has served as a panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and PBS’ “Washington in Review,” as well as political analyst on CBS Morning News, and a panelist on CNN’s “The Capital Gang” and “Novak, Hunt & Shields.”


Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news as a television journalist at CNN, NBC, and PBS for more than three decades. She served as co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” chief Washington correspondent for PBS’ “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” and anchored the award-winning weekly documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” She was an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN for 12 years, anchoring the weekday political program, “Inside Politics.”



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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

St. Petersburg Times changing name to Tampa Bay Times on Jan. 1



St. Petersburg Times evolves into Tampa Bay Times


"A letter to readers


Since I started here as a reporter in 1978, I have answered my phone with some version of “St. Pete Times.” I will need to learn a new habit.


On Sunday, Jan. 1, we changed our name to the Tampa Bay Times. The new name reflects the growth of our newspaper and our vision for this region.


This change was a long time coming. For decades, the Times has been reaching north and east from St. Petersburg. Nearly 25 years ago, we launched our Tampa edition; on a typical Sunday, it routinely sells more than 100,000 copies. By a wide margin, the Times is Florida's favorite newspaper.


With that success, our name no longer fit the newspaper or the audience we serve. Three-fourths of Times readers live outside St. Petersburg.


Continued: http://www.tampabay.com/newname/st-petersburg-times-becomes-tampa-bay-times/


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper job cuts surged 30% in 2011

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper job cuts surged 30% in 2011: "MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011

Newspaper job cuts surged 30% in 2011 http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2011/12/newspaper-job-cuts-surged-30-in-2011.html

The number of jobs eliminated in the newspaper industry rose by nearly 30% in 2011 from the prior year, according to the blog that has been tracking the human toll on the industry for the last five years.

Meanwhile, a separate analysis confirms what most of us already suspected: The proportion of cutbacks was higher in newsrooms than it was for the industry as a whole – twice as high by the calculations I will share in a moment.

First, let’s take a look at the surprising surge of job cuts in 2011, a year that many newspaper people had hoped would be a time of relative stability after five years of successive revenue declines. Instead of steadying, advertising sales slid throughout 2011 and likely will come in at less than half of the record $49.4 billion achieved as recently as 2005.

As publishers scrambled to bring costs in line with diminishing revenues, 3,775+ newspaper jobs were eliminated in 2011, according to Erica Smith, the author of the Paper Cuts blog. The toll this year is nearly 30% greater than 2,920+ cuts Smith reported in 2010.

Smith says ... http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2011/12/newspaper-job-cuts-surged-30-in-2011.html

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Explore Carroll: Dayhoff: Greeting the new year with comfort, joy ... and a lack of debt

Explore Carroll: Dayhoff: Greeting the new year with comfort, joy ... and a lack of debt

"January, bleak and dreary,
First arrival of the year,
Month of all months most contrary,
Sweet and bitter January."
On Jan. 2, 1994, Joe Getty of Manchester (now a state senator-elect) greeted readers with that poetic tribute to January in a column he wrote for the Historical Society of Carroll County about New Year's celebrations in Carroll County in the late 1800s...  http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/5039/greeting-new-year-with-comfort-joy-lack-debt/
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Carroll County Times News Update: NFL Playoffs: Jets Upset Colts

NFL Playoffs: Jets Upset Colts, Vikings take care of Cowboys Posted 9:15 p.m.

San Diego – Maybe Rex Ryan already knows the score of the AFC championship game, too.

I was fortunate enough to pull this screen grab off the Carroll County Times web site minutes after the Times’ staff discovered it and minutes before they pulled it.

Off course I have never-ever made a mistake in my copy. Well, maybe not. My favorite was the time I wrote Paul of Taurus – err, um, instead of Paul of Tarsus…

Anyway, it seems that right after the Times’ staff discovered it, they decided to have some fun with it just before they pulled it.

Too funny. I happen to like folks who can roll with it. For those who are not aware, the Carroll County Times has one of the best sports departments and sports reporters in the Mid-Atlantic region… Bookmark and check it out: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/sports/

However, as good as its sports reporters are; I am not under the impression that they can see into the future. Or maybe they can?

Of course, they could always use a few more semi-colons…

The Carroll County Times does a really good job of posting news updates on their site frequently during the day. It is really smart web management on their part.

I’d love to know the rest of the story as to the news feed with the incorrect headline…

Apparently, it was also linked to a news story with the incorrect headline also. But I wasn’t quick enough to grab it.

Meanwhile we certainly hope they kept the headline copy available for next week’s Jets versus the Colts game. I sure do not want the Colts to win and would love to see the Jets do it again; as they did when they beat the Colts 29-15 on Sunday, December 27, 2009…

If you will recall, that was the game when the headline from an AP article said it all, “Caldwell pulls starters in third with 5-point lead; Jets rally for win.” http://espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=291227011; when “The first-year coach (Jim Caldwell) pulled Manning & Co. with a 15-10 lead and 5:36 left in the third quarter.”

The upset spoiled the chances of the Colts from having a perfect season, and ended “the Colts' pursuit of perfection and their NFL-record 23-game winning streak with a 29-15 victory that had fans serenading Lucas Oil Stadium with boos and Manning, the three-time MVP, offering support for his coach's decision.”

The “Fast Facts” in the article explained:

“Peyton Manning was removed from the lineup in the third quarter with the Colts up 15-10. The Jets then scored 19 unanswered points to snap the Colts' 23-game regular season win streak.

“The Colts had fewer than 100 rushing yards for the fourth straight game; they have failed to reach the mark in 12 of 15 games this season.

“Peyton Manning (14 for 21, 192 yards) became the fourth player in NFL history with 50,000 passing yards for his career.”


Whatever. We should have been so lucky as to have had such a disappointment here in Baltimore with the Ravens.

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Friday, May 1, 2009

A report on newspapers by computer from 1981


A report on newspapers by computer from 1981

“Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.”

1981 primitive Internet report on KRON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ



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20090501 SDOSM A report on newspapers by computer from 1981

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Follow The Eagle from Wednesday to Sunday

Follow The Eagle from Wednesday to Sunday

http://explorecarroll.com/opinion/2775/follow-eagle-wednesday-sunday/

Posted 4/22/09

Every week the staff of The Eagle covers news of the community, but this week we have some news of our own -- that this is the last Wednesday edition of The Eldersburg Eagle, and that we're combining many of its elements into our Sunday edition, The Carroll Eagle.

It has been a tough decision, to be sure. We've come to cherish The Eagle banner, and have formed bonds with the community over the years.

Those bonds will continue. We'll continue to publish an online edition of The Eldersburg Eagle at our Web site, explorecarroll.com, and we also hope those who have come to count on The Eagle for news, opinion and commentary will follow us to our Sunday edition as well.

The Carroll Eagle is distributed both inside the Baltimore Sun's Sunday edition and also at locations throughout the community, including our familiar paper boxes. If you want to receive it Sunday at home, call 1-877-BUY-A-SUN.

You'll find our familiar features including Hoby Wolf, Cathy Drinkwater Better, John Culleton and David Grand, as well as education news and sports features — such as our Carroll County Student-Athlete of the Season award recipient, who will be revealed this Sunday, April 26. (See preview above.)

Though some things are changing at The Eagle, a few key things won't.

First, our phone number is still 410-549-2806, and our staff phone extensions and e-mail addresses also remain the same.

Secondly, our mailing address is still P.O. Box 474, Eldersburg, MD 21784.

Most importantly, our commitment to serve the community to the best of our ability, and to share the story and history of this community, hasn't changed.

Our staff is humbled by residents of this community who have placed their trust in us, and we'll continue to do our best to honor it. We'll see you in The Carroll Eagle, and online.


http://explorecarroll.com/opinion/2775/follow-eagle-wednesday-sunday/

20090422 SDOSM Follow The Eagle from Wednesday to Sunday
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This is the last weekly edition of The Eldersburg Eagle

This is the last weekly edition of The Eldersburg Eagle

To our readers

Posted on
www.exploreacarroll.com 4/22/09

This is the last weekly edition of The Eldersburg Eagle.

http://explorecarroll.com/news/2776/our-readers/

Starting next week, we are eliminating the print version of The Eldersburg Eagle to focus our resources on The Carroll Eagle, which is distributed every Sunday with The Baltimore Sun.

However, the journalists of The Eldersburg Eagle will continue to bring you the same great content you've come to expect from us on our Web site, ExploreCarroll.com.

In fact, we'll be updating the Web site even more frequently.

ExploreCarroll.com includes an expanded community calendar and forums for interactive comment. We'll be adding more breaking news and local blogs.

In addition, The Carroll Eagle will increase in size, distribution and content and continue to be published every Sunday. If you're not a Baltimore Sun subscriber and would like to start weekend home delivery, please call The Baltimore Sun today at 1-877-BUY-A-SUN.

We appreciate your readership and thank you for your continued support of The Eagle.


http://explorecarroll.com/news/2776/our-readers/

20090422 SDOSM This is the last weekly edition of The Eldersburg Eagle
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase

Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase

By:
Lorene Yue April 15, 2009 Crain’s Chicago Business

(Crain’s) —
Sam Zell admits that taking over Tribune Co. hasn’t gone according to plan and was a “mistake.”

“The definition if you bought something and it’s now worth a great deal less, you made a mistake,” he told Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. “And I’m more than willing to say I made a mistake. I was too optimistic in terms of the newspaper’s ability to preserve its position.”

The Chicago billionaire, who made his fortune from commercial real estate, was instrumental in taking the parent of the
Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times private through a complex deal that saddled it with $13 billion in debt. Tribune Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, a move Mr. Zell said in Wednesday’s interview was necessary to “stop the bleeding and preserve a great company.”

The process that Mr. Zell used to take Tribune private caught the attention recently of the U.S. Department of Labor, which last month subpoenaed the company for documents related to its Employees Stock Ownership Plan, now the sole owner of
Tribune Co.

Read the rest here: Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase

(20071028 Tribune, Patuxent Publishing Group, Baltimore Sun disclosure Kevin Dayhoff writes for three of the newspapers in the Patuxent Publishing Group, the Sunday Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle and Eldersburg Eagle. The Patuxent Publishing Group is owned by “Tribune.” Tribune also owns the Baltimore Sun – and as a matter of fact, the Sunday Carroll Eagle is distributed in the Sunday edition of the Baltimore Sun – see: 20071021 Baltimore Sun: “To our readers.”) Additionally I write for an online magazine, The Tentacle.)

20090415 Zell admits mistake in TribCo purchase by Lorene Yue
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Moving to the next chapter of the Eagle story


Westminster Eagle goes online. The last print edition of the paper was published last Wednesday, March 18, 2009.

Please follow us online at www.explorecarroll.com – I’m committed to making this work… Kevin Dayhoff



Editor's Note

Posted 3/18/09

Our big news this week -- that this week is the last print version of The Westminster Eagle, and that we're combining many of its elements into an expanded version of our countywide Carroll Eagle and concentrating on an online Westminster Eagle version -- is bittersweet for members of The Eagle staff.

After all, we've come together under The Westminster Eagle banner, and formed great bonds with the community and its leaders over the past four-and-a-half years.

But we're excited about the additional Westminster coverage we'll be able to provide with the online version of The Westminster Eagle at
www.explorecarroll.com. It will include an expanded community calendar, forums for interactive comment, breaking news, Eagle Alerts and more.

We'll have our familiar features online as well, including our columns by Hoby Wolf, Cathy Drinkwater Better and David Grand, sports coverage, local education news and more.

We're also energized over the expansion of The Carroll Eagle, our sister publication that will be growing in terms of size, distribution and content. Many of the familiar Westminster features will now be in The Carroll Eagle. You can get it delivered to your home with the Sunday edition of The Baltimore Sun. We'll also be distributing it free at key locations throughout the community, including our familiar paper boxes.

Finally, we are happy to announce that one other piece of our local coverage puzzle has also solidified -- our satellite office, at 1942 Bethel Road just off Route 140, is up and running. We have a box for residents to drop items off to us any time, and our staff now has regular office hours -- though be sure to call ahead if you plan to visit, as we're usually in the field.

Though some things are changing at The Westminster Eagle, a few key things won't.

First, our phone number is still 410-386-0334, and our staff phone extensions and e-mail addresses also remain the same.

Secondly, our mailing address is still P.O. Box 493, Westminster, MD 21158.
Most importantly, our commitment to serve the community to the best of our ability, and to share the story and history of this community, hasn't changed. Our staff is humbled by members of this community who have placed their trust in us, and we'll do our best to honor it.

We'll see you online, and in The Carroll Eagle.


http://explorecarroll.com/opinion/2564/moving-next-chapter-eagle-story/

20090318 Moving to the next chapter of the Eagle story
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

The Investigative Voice

The Investigative Voice

Hat Tip: Bryan Sears – Stephen Janis and Luke Broadwater, former Baltimore Examiner reporters, have started their own news site in the wake of the demise of their former paper….” (My hyperlinks to the staff page of the “Investigative Voice.”)

http://www.investigativevoice.com/

The web site is well designed, however the content is awesome.

20090308 The Investigative Voice
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Monday, February 16, 2009

MD Senate Republican Caucus Mourning the Examiner


MD Senate Republican Caucus Mourning the Examiner

I especially appreciated Baltimore Examiner reporter Len Lazarick and he and his work will be sorely missed...

The last edition of the Baltimore Examiner was published today.

The Examiner's news coverage and editorial voice provided a much-needed conservative perspective on Maryland political affairs. It is a voice that will be sorely missed.

See our tribute to the Examiner and its State House reporter, Len Lazarick, at our website:
www.mdsenategop.com.

The Incredibly Shrinking State House Press Corps

Maryland Senate Republican Caucus http://www.mdsenategop.com/

February 15, 2009

It is with sadness and regret that we report on the passing of the Baltimore Examiner newspaper from the media scene in Maryland.

The Maryland Senate Republican Caucus offers its best wishes to Len Lazarick, who as of today is a former journalist of the State House press corps. Over the past three years, he has been one of the best in his coverage of political affairs in Maryland.

Unlike much of the media in Annapolis, Len would frequently profile opposition voices to the Administration and the Democrat leadership in the legislature. A Republican legislator might be featured in a Lazarick article, instead of being relegated to paragraph 15 of a 16-paragraph article as in other media outlets.

Len also did not allow himself to be manhandled by the Governor's press corps. When an "internal" Department of Budget and Management memo about looming budget cuts was released as an "exclusive" to the two major dailies in the state, Len questioned in his "Life on the State Circle" column why this document was selectively released and whether it was actually a memo written by the Administration specifically to "spin" the press?

The basement quarters of State House press corps were once a crowded and vibrant place. But, as the newspaper industry has declined over the past decade, cutbacks have affected the number of assignments to Annapolis.

Traditionally, local dailies (such as the Hagerstown Herald Mail, Frederick News Post and Carroll County Times), sent reporters to Annapolis full-time during the legislative session. Now, local reporters infrequently visit Annapolis while legislative reporting is mostly handled through Associated Press wire stories.

The larger metropolitan newspapers (Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, Washington Times) and the specialty press (The Daily Record, The Gazette of Politics and Business) have also trimmed their State House positions.

The end result is a significant loss to Maryland's citizens. A diminished capacity of Annapolis media coverage means less transparency in government and fewer opportunities for investigative reporting.

Moreover, the closing of the Baltimore Examiner greatly reduces the diversity of opinion on state affairs - a diversity that in Maryland is already sorely lacking.


20090215 MD Senate Republican Caucus Mourning the Examiner
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Landmark suspends sale of assets, but not the Pilot

Landmark suspends sale of assets, but not the Pilot

By Philip Walzer The Virginian-Pilot © October 30, 2008 NORFOLK

Related:

Locally, Landmark owns the Carroll County Times in Westminster Maryland.

20080104 Company looks into sales scenarios by Carrie Ann Knauer

Landmark considers possible sale of Pilot, Weather Channel (Jan. 3, 2008)

Weather Channel's profitability is behind sale, says Landmark executive (Jan. 10, 2008)

Arkansas company scouts The Virginian-Pilot, other papers (June 29, 2008)

Weather Channel deal sealed for $3.5 billion to NBC group (July 7, 2008)

Sale of Landmark TV station in Nashville falls through (Oct. 15, 2008)

Full archive on the Landmark Communications sale

Landmark Media Enterprises LLC, citing the "credit crisis," announced Wednesday that it has taken most of its properties, including Dominion Enterprises, off the market. But the company is continuing negotiations to sell The Virginian-Pilot.

"We are having discussions regarding The Virginian-Pilot Media Companies with an interested buyer," Landmark's vice chairman, Richard F. Barry III, said Wednesday. "The buyer is encouraged about obtaining financing."

He declined to identify the prospective buyer or say when he expected the sale to be completed.

The Virginian-Pilot and its affiliates employ about 1,260 people, mostly in Hampton Roads. The Pilot's associated businesses include Web sites such as Pilotonline.com and more than a dozen specialty publications, such as Link, Port Folio Weekly, Inside Business, and newspapers on military bases.

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Newspaper-industry analyst John Morton said he wasn't surprised that Landmark was dropping its plans to sell most of its businesses. He noted that other newspapers remain on the market, including most of Cox Enterprises' publications and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

"The market is awash in sellers and no buyers," said Morton, who is based in Silver Spring, Md. "Right now it's the credit, but it wasn't happening before the credit tied up. People are very leery. They're not sure what they should pay or how well the newspapers are going to come out of the recession they've been in."

Facing steep market declines in advertising revenue and circulation, newspapers have lost more than half of their value since 2002, he said.

Landmark officials announced in January that they were looking to sell all of the businesses owned by the privately held media company. They did not offer a reason.

In September, Landmark completed the sale of its most profitable business, The Weather Channel Cos., to NBC Universal and two private-equity firms. The sal e price was not disclosed, but people close to the parties said it was about $3.5 billion.

Two weeks ago, however, Landmark announced that the planned sale of its Nashville television station to Bonten Media Group Inc. of New York had fallen through because of credit-market problems.

Landmark's businesses, minus The Weather Channel Cos., have combined revenues exceeding $1 billion a year, Barry said.

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Read the entire article here: Landmark suspends sale of assets, but not the Pilot

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/landmark-suspends-sale-most-assets-not-virginianpilot

20081030 Landmark suspends sale of assets but not the Pilot

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

20080528 The Tentacle: Ham Nation by Kevin Dayhoff

Ham Nation

May 28, 2008 Kevin E. Dayhoff

Newspaper junkies learned last week that Mary Katherine Ham is joining The Washington Examiner as the online editor of “the publication’s forthcoming new web site.”

The announcement came by way of an email alert from The Washington Examiner’s editorial page editor, Mark Tapscott.

The news comes as excitement grows among those in the central Maryland area, who are Washington-oriented and get much of our national news from online publications, especially The Washington Examiner. Many are looking forward to the paper’s launch of its new web site – “dcexaminer.com.”

It is also welcome news for those who have followed the career of Ms. Ham on Fox News and Townhall.com and understand that she is just what is needed to bring online publications into the new millennium.

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Moreover, the fresh new approach to an online publication is more likely to be achieved with an editor with a background in Internet media. Moving an aging dinosaur print media editor over to the online world and re-labeling their job description, and the sign on the door, isn’t going to work.

This is where someone like Mary Katherine Ham, a 2002 graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism, has a running start and advantage over any print media refugee assigned to an online publication. For starters, she is 28 years old and is a second-generation journalist.

As The Examiner press release notes, she “grew up in a newspaper family, as her father was managing editor of The Durham Herald-Sun (NC) for 13 years and four as director of digital publishing.”

Furthermore, Ms. Ham is currently a blogger, columnist, and managing editor for the web site Townhall.com. Many have enjoyed her regular appearances on “The O'Reilly Factor” on Fox News, where Bill O’Reilly introduces her as an “Internet Cop.” Others have enjoyed her work in an award-winning video blog series titled “HamNation.”

[…]

It was actually no surprise that The Washington Examiner hired Ms. Ham. Mr. Tapscott has stayed on the cutting-edge of the integration of news reporting into the technological age.

Apparently he did not need a lesson in computational complexity theory, or a “qualitative, anthropological study of young media consumers,” to understand that the future of newspapers is found in the increased integration of video, interactive ability, depth – with “path to the back story,” and honest news reporting.

Mary Katherine Ham is scheduled to begin working at The Examiner’s downtown Washington newsroom on June 10.

Read the entire column here: Ham Nation

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20080528 The Tentacle: Ham Nation by Kevin Dayhoff

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Co. looks into sales scenarios By Carrie Ann Knauer, Times Staff Writer

Co. looks into sales scenarios By Carrie Ann Knauer, Times Staff Writer

Friday, January 04, 2008

Business retains investment banks to explore options

Landmark Communications Inc., parent of the Carroll County Times and The Weather Channel, announced Thursday to its employees that it has hired national investment firms to explore selling the divisions of the company.

Frank Batten Jr., Landmark chief executive and chairman, sent out a memo Thursday to company employees announcing that the company has retained investment banks J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers “to explore strategic alternatives, including the possible sale of Landmark businesses.”

Pat Richardson, publisher of the Carroll County Times, told employees Thursday that she learned of the company’s decision Wednesday. An 18-year Landmark employee who served several years on the company’s newspaper acquisition team, Richardson said Landmark’s properties are prized assets that are likely to attract attention of other media organizations.

“There’s been a lot of consolidation of the media; we see it every day,” Richardson said. “We are still the local paper for Carroll County, and that’s not going to change, no matter who owns us.”

[…]

Other Landmark newspapers in Maryland include the Community Times, The Advocate weekly papers, Homes magazines and the recently purchased Capital Gazette Communications publications, including The (Annapolis) Capital, The Bowie Blade-News, The Crofton News-Crier, Waterfront Living Magazine, The Maryland Gazette, The West County Gazette and The South County Gazette.

The Virginian-Pilot contributed to this report.

Read Ms. Knauer’s entire article here: Co. looks into sales scenarios

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2008/01/04/news/local_news/newstory3.txt

20080104 Company looks into sales scenarios by Carrie Ann Knauer

Sunday, October 7, 2007

20071006 Scrappleface: CIA May Threaten Detainees with Senate Hearings

Scott Ott – Scrappleface: CIA May Threaten Detainees with Senate Hearings



by Scott Ott (2007-10-06)



According a newly-leaked top-secret document published in The New York Times ‘Classified’ section today, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has employed controversial methods to extract information from terror suspects, including threats to put the detainee in front of a Senate committee for further interrogation.


If true, it means that U.S. agents may be using a technique “tantamount to torture,” an unnamed source told the Times.


“I’ve seen those Senate hearings on TV,” the source said. “I’d rather be waterboarded, slapped about the head and assaulted with high-volume Britney Spears music while confined to a meat locker.




Wednesday, March 14, 2007

20070314 Grocery Store check out line literature


Grocery Store check out line literature

March 14, 2007 Daily Photoblog

I was minding my own business in the grocery store check out when I noticed a couple of folks ahead of me getting all animated and gesturing towards the grocery store check out line literature.

Amused and curious; when I got to that place in line I looked to the shelf and just cracked-up.

Hey, whatever floats your boat?

Who knows – maybe the articles are true?

It was first time I have ever seen folks actually purchase these papers. Except when I was younger I would purchase them from time to time for collage materials.

I could go on – but I guess I’ll stop while I’m behind.

What a hoot.

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Saturday, September 23, 2006

20060923 Local News in Spanish



Local News in Spanish


September 23, 2006


My latest post on the Westminster Eagle blog, The Winchester Report, is up. It is: “Local news coverage, in Spanish, of the tragic accident in Westminster.”


09/23/06 By Kevin Dayhoff


Last Tuesday night there was a tragic accident in Westminster in which a bicyclist, a native of Mexico, was killed on Route 140.


The Carroll County Times published an article week by Ari Natter and Tomas Pagan-Motta in the print edition which referred the reader to the story – in Spanish – online.


The Times is to be congratulated for including an article in the language of the victim.


I only wish that the paper had been able to find the space to publish the Spanish version in the print edition. Better yet, I wish I had thought of it first.


[I added the hyperlinks…]


Read the rest of it here.


For previous posts:


20060921 KDDC Spanish language coverage of the tragic traffic ...

22 Sep 2006 by Kevin Dayhoff

In regards to the local news coverage of the tragic accident in Westminster in which a bicyclist was killed on Rte 140, the Carroll County Times published an article today by Ari Natter and Tomas Pagan-Motta in the print edition which ...


20060919 KDDC Bicyclist killed in late night accident on Rte 140 ...

20 Sep 2006 by Kevin Dayhoff

A dark stretch of eastbound Rte 140 between the Rte 27 overpass and Center St. in Westminster was the scene of a fatal accident involving a bicyclist and a Carroll County Sheriff’s Deputy late Tuesday evening. ...

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