Possible new copyright spokesman for the AP.

Reading this blog post by Sanford (N.C.) Herald reporter Jonathan Owens about his grandfather, M.L. Owens, reminded me of my own visits with “M.L.” I have a few pieces of his pottery – I wish I had more. I particularly...

Father’s Day was spent at the baseball field. Tennessee Copperheads won Silver Division by winning five of six games over the weekend. Mark is waiting on deck to bat. More on flickr.

Gizmodo says this tornado photo from Orchard, Iowa – which made it onto a New York Times blog – is why you should carry a digital camera at all times. But Kurt Greenbaum has the story of how newspapers and...

With the decision to mothball OJR.org, long-time “online guy” and former Scripps colleague Robert Niles has launched a new site: sensibletalk.com Why “sensible talk”? Because that’s how we make better journalism – with sensible talk. Our ability to report is...

Michael Rosenblum on newspapers and video: Q: Are there any newspapers out there you think are doing this right? A: No. None. There are some that are getting closer, but we are in uncharted waters and have a chance not...

Brian Cubbison who edits the “News Tracker” blog at syracuse.com greatly expanded on my observation Friday afternoon that Wikipedia beat AP to even a one line alert in the death of Tim Russert on Friday. He’s got the full chronology...

Wikipedia posted Tim Russert’s death before AP could move an alert.

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… community news would have died years ago. As it is, we’re in need of a good digital refrigerator. Amy Gahran writing on Poynter’s site: (Lisa Williams, a longtime citizen journalist and founder of Placeblogger) posited in a conversation yesterday,...