Month: July 2009

  • Tennessee journalist honored with lifetime achievement award

    SPJ news release from this morning: INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to honor pioneering Tennessee journalist Robert Churchwell with the Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement. Churchwell, who died Feb. 1, 2009, was the first black journalist to work as a full-time reporter for a Southern general interest newspaper. The Helen…

  • A push-start for three innovative media ideas

    In case you missed this from earlier in the week, the McCormick Foundation funded three proposals from new media women entrepreneurs at $10,000 each so they can launch within a year. Here are the three plans:: ChickRx – Harvard MBA student Stacey Borden and partner Meghan Muntean will lead a team of women in launching…

  • Respite from the media dog days of summer

    Just when the summer sultry heat convinces you the future of media is the bleakest of deserts along comes something or someone that says otherwise. There’s Michael Van Popel, who at 17 started the Twitter breaking news service Breaking News Online. Now a mere 20, he’s built a media franchise and is coming out in…