AP’s board approved plans today plans for the News Licensing Group, a spin-off news licensing agency that will be something of an ASCAP for news.

Arizona Daily Star managing editor Teri Hayt shares some lessons learned for the newspaper in the Tucson shootings. Would you be ready? Related articles

First, thanks to Dave Cohn for reviving the Carnival of Journalism. We haven’t put up the big tent in a long while. For this carnival, a number of journalism bloggers have been asked by Cohn to write about one topic:...

The two strongest gainers were A.H. Belo and E.W. Scripps

Here are the top blog posts here during 2010 based on page views. Thanks for reading! Two were written in 2007, one in 2008 and the rest in 2010. Hey, Michael Moore, I’m calling you out Letter from the epicenter...

Many thanks to the top 10 referring sites to his blog during 2010 that are not search engines. Have a Happy New Year! pajamasmedia.com feedburner (RSS feeds) bigjournalism.com piratenews.org booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com twitter.com facebook.com poynter.org blogs.knoxnews.com Mainly, No Silence Here moviecitynews.com    

Over on the “This is How We Roll” blog, I’ve posted some thoughts about a paid-content site I’ve been working on for weeks with 247Sports.com called GVX247.   It launches Thursday and you can get all the details from the...

Last weekend I spent an intensive and fascinating weekend at the Snowbird Resort in Utah working on ideas for applications for iPads, other tablets and smart phones. It was one of those events where the positive energy and creativity of...

An interesting approach to managing comments by editor Barton Cromeens at the Abilene Reporter-News: Get the commenting community involved and work hard at making comments add value: The First Amendment is under attack. Ironically, the attacker is a free press...

From Val Hoeppner: Freedom Forum New Media Training at the Diversity Institute will offer a Multimedia Boot Camp for Journalism Professionals and Educators Feb. 23-27, 2011. Registration is available immediately and on a first-come, first-served basis. Follow this link to...