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Bloggers are too starving journalists
President Bush apparently believes bloggers are journalists. In the closing days of 2007, Bush signed the OPEN Government Act, which strengthens the Freedom of Information Act and also importantly extends journalist status in many cases to bloggers and other independent writers. This makes them eligible for reduced fees when getting FOIA information out of the…
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Former KNS biz writer gets promotion
Kathy Brister, a former business writer at the Knoxville News Sentinel, has a new job. Brister, who left the News Sentinel in 2000 to become a business reporter and later editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been named the senior editor for business and news on the “News & Information” side of the newspaper, a…
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Tom Humphrey is an A-lister
Chris Cillizza, who writes “The Fix” blog on the Washington Post Web site, asked people to send in suggestions on the best political reporters in each state and created a list in a Dec. 28 blog posting. For Tennessee, there is Knoxville News Sentinel reporter Tom Humphrey and Tennessee Journal editor Ed Cromer. Having worked with…