Month: May 2011

  • First Amendment found damaged in storm cleanup

    From the Chattanooga Times Free Press: Last Thursday, one of our reporters, Kate Harrison, was following volunteers cleaning up debris in the heavily damaged Apison area when she was confronted by three veteran, high-ranking public officials who ordered her to stop taking photographs. The officials — Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond, Chattanooga Police Chief Bobby…

  • I Walk Like An Egyptian

    The Carnival of Journalism (#Jcarn) this month takes on the Big F, Failure. There were rules about what you could write about and while not a rule abider at all times, the ones laid out by David Cohn seemed reasonable enough. What is failure? It is a mistake? It is a failure if you make…

  • TN journalist Duren Cheek dies

    Tom Humphrey has the news about the death of retired UPI Tennessee bureau chief and Tennessean reporter Duren Cheek. Cheek’s bio on his Facebook page says: Spent most of my life in the news business. Started with UPI before graduating from UT. Got so frustrated as a beginner that I marched down to the Marine…