Future of the press: useful or just shallow?

By Candice Novak
Right now, journalists are getting their faces shoved into a huge problem. As a young journalists myself I seem to be confronted weekly with the notion that I should have to choose between niche-market streaming/social networking/freelancing and corporate media conglomerates. Neither of these is very titillating. The conventional wisdom tells me I can [...]

Top-10 anti-IraqWar streetART

Little covered in mainstream media is the huge attention the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are getting on the streets in the form of art. An aggregate of the best anti-Iraq war art, of which there is much. Check out the running numbers of American casualties. Here’s to looking at the art of the people instead [...]

CS Monitor’s Patchwork — some glitches, some glory

The Christian Science Monitor’s Patchwork Nation Project takes election polls and database journalism to a unique level. Using 11 different populations they believe to be important in the 2008 election, the CS Monitor has created a personalized version of what they see as the groups that could be seen as voting blocs — not the [...]

Four years after fire, JP church still roofless

By Candice Novak
The walls of the First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain at the corner of Centre and Myrtle streets are bolstered by metal rods and the roof is a crumbling assemblage of charred wood beams. Since the 149-year old church burned down in January 2005, the church has been filled with ice, snow, fallen [...]

“An interesting mess” – comments on paper’s site sought for evidence in murder

A grand jury in Illinois wants the Alton Telegraph to turn over the names, addresses and Internet Protocol addresses of readers who commented on the newspaper’s website under five different profile names. The newspaper is attempting to protect those readers by using the shield law which protects “sources” of news organizations. The state claims the [...]

Palin emails priced at $15M

MSNBC investigative reporter Bill Dedman reported on Oct. 17 the latest twist in the Palin email saga (which began with a watch dog in Alaska’s request before Palin was chosen as McCain’s running mate).

Dedman found that even if news organizations were willing to pay the extraordinarily-high price for the public records, they wouldn’t be available until [...]

tin type photography

Still working on this one, my latest video venture. I would love some feedback:

new media

Robin Lubbock of WBUR came to shed some light on the future of the news and how new media will play a gigantic part. He works for Boston’s National Public Radio station — one of the “old media” — which has re-purposed itself as new media online.
The station’s site features an experimental interactive section that [...]

Palin sued and (could be) restrained over email scandal

ELECTION 2008 – Gov. Palin
Even before the McCain administration chose Gov. Sarah Palin, Andree McLeod, a Alaskan political watchdog had filed a request for access to Gov. Sarah Palin’s personal emails (gov.palin@yahoo.com) she suspected were being used for political work but not accessible by public access. Now McLeod seeks to make sure Palin cannot [...]