Where are the Women? (Niche media makes up for mainstream)

While watching the news media crumble, you have to ask yourself, what are the casualties? There are many public ones — the out-of-work reporters, the corporate-merger leftovers of the weaker papers giving up their name to a bigger one, and in some cases, a slimmer paper.
But what about the other side? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]