CNN zeros in on 'Heroes'
Variety
Cameron Diaz presents Marie Da Silva with her prize during the 2008 CNN Heroes tribute last year at the Kodak. CNN will present its third annual "Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" special Thanksgiving night from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. N...
How to Build a New-Media/Old-School Journalism Hybrid
TechNewsWorld
Dvorkin carried the usual amount of former-newsie cynicism about the news when he started teaching his Ryerson workshop in January for master's candidates in journalism. He was told to get them to experiment with new media forms, using the ...
Barbara Tells Hillary: "Drop It Already"
Huffingtonpost.com
If they did their job, every one of their personnel would know that those derogatory, hateful comments would not be allowed. No excuses, Barbara and no I will not settle down as long as one newsie can continue to badmouth women. ...
Party boss Carl Heastie feels dissed over county clerk pick
New York Daily News
As CBS Channel 2's Marcia Kramer (an ex-Newsie) reported last week, the Wascally Wabbit's STILL yet-to-open district office at 400 E. Fordham Road isn't even in his district. It's in State Sen. Jeff Klein 's. Diss-order! Well, we now have a...
End of road so cliché, unemotional
Badger Herald
I started the year as an intense whiner; I've ended the year as slightly less of whiner, but after this miniature newsie bootcamp, I'm slightly more prepared for the next step. See? I told you, horrible with feelings. In any event, thanks f...
Imperial Valley College students bring questions to first monthly town ...
Imperial Valley Press Online
" Newsie, I was being very conservative when I said "far more than half" of the students are on calgrants. But you are absolutely right about the middle class getting stuck with the bills. Parents and students with jobs usually don't qualif...
Palin Calling for Patient-Centered Health Care Reform (Updated)
Poli Gazette
How transparent and how sad for a newsie to be suggesting this crap. Man the MSM, NOT so MSM and everyone in between are really looking out for us now arent they? And who says theirs no agenda in the media these days? Oh but thats right. Im...
The Media Equation
New York Times
Sure, being a newsie is a grind, the hours are not great and the public holds us in lower esteem than the women who work the poles at Satin Dolls down the road from the Tick Tock in Lodi, but it beats working by a mile. Every day is a caper...
How big was the crowd in D.C. today?
Hotair.com
personal favorite event of the day was people yelling Glenn Beck” over the CNN newsie…. second favorite those poor Union boys who were handing out fliers near the port-a-johns who were simply awestruck at the numbers… see you at the next on...
First thoughts: Nobody puts GM in a corner
MSNBC Firstread
2 million at the Washington DC Tea party, and next to zero coverage from the major networks and cable outlets (except for #1 in the ratings Fox). Then you wonder why Fox's ratings are going through the roof. Maybe one of you newsie types ca...
Jackson's death dominates global news
Variety
Rival newsie “El Pais” used the same headline for its second lead. Broadcaster Telecinco ended its early afternoon newscast with a musicvid montage of the greatest hits of a man again described as “The King of Pop.” Print coverage glossed o...
The L.A. Times Gets a Nice Redesign
Laist.com
It's quite a change from the old look, but a welcome one at that. It's more mature and newsie with a hat tip to the past--much better than that corporate turquoise thing that was going on before. There's an interactive tour you can take and...
Rolling Stone expose: Goldman Sachs behind every market crash since ...
Raw Story
Taibbi gets my nomination for Most Ballsy Newsie of the year with his Rolling Stone exposé of Goldman-Sachs; the money game is a killer deserving of lethal injection. The last article in [...]
Bring back real 'progressives'
Crosscut.com
... Democrats Dow Constantine and Larry Phillips for King County Executive (and I think they’re worthy candidates), but the folks who might actually qualify as progressive, state Rep. Ross Hunter and state Sen. Fred Jarrett, were lumped in ...