Month: January 2008

  • Journalism experience of over 100 years is leaving the building

    News Sentinel Editor Jack McElroy notes the departures late next week of three long-time newsroom folks, Gerry Segroves, Lynn Lewis and Fred Brown. Both Fred and Lynn had worked at the Memphis Press-Scimitar before it closed in 1983. Fred’s an example of a vet who has adapted over the years. He blogs, he’s done audio…

  • Only the years have changed

    The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.   – Paul Valery And the trouble with the present is it’s so much like the past. As we leave 2007, I decided to turn back and see what was being said about newspapers and journalism a decade ago. Some…

  • Traffic driver?

    New Web site: knoxvilledriverssuck.com