AdPulp (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
San Francisco Panorama is an upcoming 300-plus-page, single-edition newspaper from McSweeney's, the indie publishing house founded by author Dave Eggers . Six months in the making by McSweeney's staff based in San Francisco's Mission District, the Panorama will comprise a main news section including investigative reports, arts and sports sections, a magazine, a book review section, pull out posters...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Issue 33 of McSweeney's --a one-time-only newspaper called the Panorama designed to demonstrate the fun things ink and paper can do--will be released in a couple weeks. The San Francisco Chronicle rehashes this news today, and gets comments from some non-Dave Eggers people involved in the production of print journalism. It seems old newsdudes may not be totally keen on these whippersnappers' attempt...
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The front page of today's San Francisco Chronicle shines the spotlight on the SF Panorama, an experimental one-shot newspaper put together by McSweeney's. Due out the first week of December, the Panorama is, in short, a prototype for the...
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A federal appeals court has upheld restrictions on legal aid lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp., including a ban on filing class actions. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the rules, enacted along with LSC budgets each year since 1996, in an opinion on Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Conservatives who back the rules say they are needed to focus representation...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
San Francisco Chronicle release The Chronicle will be the exclusive presenter in the Bay Area for the San Francisco Panorama, a 300-plus-page, single-edition newspaper published by Dave Eggers 's McSweeney's. The paper comes out Dec. 8. || Previous Panorama coverage .
THE BRAZOSPORT NEWS (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
As the once-proud flagship newspaper of the Hearst Corp. continues its descent into oblivion, a small story of hope, ingenuity and the creativity of the human spirit has emerged. It seems Delfin Vigil, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, was laid off last spring, but well before his last day on the job, he discovered an abandoned room in the newspaper's basement that looked ideal for a recording...
California Greening (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The condemnation of the current political regime in Sacramento has become nearly universal. The following T. S. Eliot inspired quote appeared in the August/September issue of Connections , a publication of the Peace and Justice Center, Stockton, CA. This is the way California ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper. With a failure of leadership so complete, so total, as to leave the state bereft of hope...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I've recently become enamored of the LA Times' culture blogs. For instance, Culture Monster does a pretty good job of covering the major goings on in the LA scene and reporting from time to time; e.g., see this post on the meltdown of the LACMA's investments. As much as one can dog the LA Times for what it's become under the new leadership over there, it does seem to get blogs and the potential they...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Photo courtesy of C-SPAN: C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb , then C-SPAN President Paul FitzPatrick , and Sen. Byrd . Good morning FishbowlDC! Congrats to Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) who becomes the longest serving member of Congress today. The above photo is from June 1986 on the day Senate coverage began on cable-funded C-SPAN2. What we know and what we're reading this Wednesday the 18th of November...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. YouTube Debuts Channel for Citizen Journalists ( THR ) The world's top purveyor of Internet video has launched YouTube Direct , whereby TV and online news editors can obtain video from so-called "citizen journalists" -- and even request such video be shot by amateurs seeking attention. Beet.tv : The Huffington Post, NPR, Politico...
Chasing Evil (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Student newspaper runs (white) supremacist ad: "Source: [b]San Francisco Chronicle[/b]The Lowell High School student newspaper published Friday included a paid advertisement for a white supremacist Web site, reportedly paid for a group promoting a 'campaign to inform, awaken and radicalize our White American youth.'The site, [i]URL redacted..."
The Gray Market Report (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I submitted the following op-ed to my former employer, The San Francisco Chronicle. They refused to run it. By W. Blake Gray I'm a blogger, and I take freebies. The Federal Trade Commission considers that practice so wicked that it created a new rule. Soon, I will have to publicly pronounce that I take free samples; it's as if my blog contains trans fat. Well, you can't get much more public than this....
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Reporters at the Associated Press are clearly unhappy that Maine voters turned out to refuse to honor "gay marriage" at the ballot box. An AP dispatch two days ago by Lisa Leff and David Sharp suggested conservatives are misleading voters with charges that have "no evidence," like students going on a field trip to a lesbian wedding. Are they that factually challenged at AP? From...
Rocky Mount Telegram - Business (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Chronicle says it will become the first newspaper in the nat...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. News Corp Says MySpace's $900m Google Deal at Risk ( FT ) MySpace, once the centerpiece of Rupert Murdoch's digital strategy, has fallen "significantly" short of expectations and is jeopardizing a critical $900 million internet search agreement with Google. Weaker traffic means the News Corp division is now expected to receive...
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