Bill Dedman, owner of the Power Reporting: Resources for journalists is offering the website for anyone who take it over:
“If a university journalism program or nonprofit association is interested in using this domain as an aid to journalists or journalism, drop me a line. Contact Bill Dedman. I don’t think whoever takes over the site [...]
The June 4, 2009 issue of The New York Observe has an article called ABC News Shuttering In-House Library in Favor of ‘Digital Research Facility’; Looking To Donate Print Materials:
“Today, yet another bricks-and-mortar media bibliothèque fell victim to the digital age.”
“This afternoon, in an email to his staff, David Westin, the president of ABC News, [...]
As if all of the recent news about folks leaving news librarianship somewhat unwillingly hasn’t made us feel enough like we’re among the last ones at work late on a night with a glorious, exciting weekend beckoning to us once we leave, one of its superstars just took the elevator down to the lobby.
Barbara Semonche [...]
About two months shy of its true 150th anniversary, the Rocky Mountain News published its last paper and prepares to completely close down. It had been seeking a buyer in the midst of troubles plaguing many newspapers these days.
My hat is off to our colleagues. I can’t help wondering what will happen to the archives [...]
The Vormelker-Thomas Student Award deadline is fast approaching Wednesday March 4, 2009
The News Division of the Special Libraries Association invites graduate students and December 2008 graduates interested in a career in news librarianship to apply for the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award.
The award, co-sponsored by the News Division and ProQuest, is a $1,500 stipend to assist students [...]
Techdirt and Editor & Publisher posted two stories that the Wall Street Journal is laying off two news librarians:
Editor & Publisher:
“NEW YORK The librarian who operates The Wall Street Journal’s news research library — which is set to close with the elimination of her job and another staffer’s — said in a memo to other [...]
Liz Donovan, former researcher at The Miami Herald, one of the researchers behind The Washington Post’s Watergate story, the infomaniac behind the news, and one of my heros, passed away after battling lung cancer. Liz is one of the many veteran news librarians who welcomed me into news library land. After establishing at least one [...]
The Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other television stations and news organizations, as well as the Chicago Cubs (who will eventually win the World Series) filed for bankruptcy protection today. This filing probably won’t be the only one for a news organization during this downturn. Subscriptions and advertising revenue [...]
There’s a talk at the NELA Conference on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:30 am called “News savvy: Journalists, Citizen Journalism and the News Consumer:
Newspapers, broadcasters, citizen journalists and an array of bloggers provide news and opinion
around the clock on the printed page, on TV, radio and via computers and telephones. With the media
in an [...]
“The Australian Newspapers Beta service allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. This is a beta service in the sense that it only contains a relatively small volume of data. More data will be added as it is processed, however there may be a delay before additional [...]