Author: Jack Lail

  • Good listen for October

    I’m liking this title cut and other tunes from the new  I And Love And You Avett Brothers album more with every listen.

  • The tomato paste libel case

    I’ve been doing a lot of research, thinking and writing about online comments for a Nov. 5 webinar on comment management for news sites for the Poynter Institute and APME. So the story about a libel suit against the owner of a pizza restaurant just blocks from my home attracted my attention. In what some…

  • Knoxnews wins breaking news award

    I was watching the Livestream.com Web live video of the Online Journalism Awards presentation while I was updating knoxnews/govolsxtra Saturday night. The Tennessee-Auburn game had just ended and it was busy. When Rich Beckman announced knoxnews was the winner in the medium-size category for breaking news, it was … did he say? … yes, he…