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Journalist Jill Carroll, captive in Iraq since early January, has been freed. The Christian Science Monitor, for which she freelances, has lots of articles.

In a speech at a journalism conference, Patrick J. Purcell, publisher and president of the Boston Herald, opined that the news-gathering strength of news organizations will help them survive the digital age.

It’s that time of year when I speak to a journalism class about doing research. In two hours, I should cover a lot of the basics and important stuff, like specific sources, public records, what resources are available through their local libraries (Gary Price shared a great anecdote about this during his talk), using libraries [...]

Sure, we all know newspaper clippings are valuable. I attended a lecture at the Fogg Art Museum tonight by Anke te Heesen of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science called Clipping Culture in Art and Science. She touched on “… the cultural and scientific significance of collecting and deploying newspaper clippings in [...]

So I’m listening to Dan Gillmor’s talk: part 2 of Engaging with the News, Part I: The Daily Me and We. You can, too: http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s…. I’m not sure if an archive might be available.
The man sitting to my right has a really amazing looking gadget that seems to be a cousin of this computer marketed to [...]

The major news in the United States for the media industry is McClatchy’s purchase of Knight Ridder for $4.5 billion plus $2 billion in debt for a total of $6.5 billion. Both are huge media companies that own many news outlets. Based on daily circulation numbers, McClatchy will become the second largest newspaper company in [...]

On Talk of the Nation Wednesday, JJ Sutherland explains why National Public Radio decided to start a blog and how they hope people will use it. From the first post, which also introduces JJ:
"But perhaps most importantly this is an attempt to engage in an ongoing conversation with you. Send us email, leave us comments [...]

Nora Paul, known among news librarians for her previous work with the Poynter Institute and now director of the director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies, shares some tips about what kind of information might be available about people online on last Tuesday’s Morning Edition, a National Public Radio news program. [...]

Sabrina points out this ranking and examination by Jay Rosen, a New York University journalism professor with a large following for his blog PressThink, and some journalism students of blogs by large daily newspapers.

"Confidential credit and bank card account information of Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette subscribers who pay for their home delivery subscriptions by credit card was recently inadvertently disclosed on the back of slips used to label bundles of the Worcester Sunday Telegram."
appears on the top of The Boston Globe’s Web site. BusinessWeek summarizes [...]