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January 24, 2010

“A Eulogy for Old-School Newsrooms” came out in the American Journalism Review’s December/January issue. It was written by Carl Sessions Stepp, a UMD professor.
NY Times going to start charging for Web content
Interesting story on Gail Huff/Scott Brown conflict of interest in the Boston Globe
Government should keep its hands out of journalism’s future, says FCC Chief
When pigs fly? National Enquirer going for Pulitzer for John Edwards discovery
More journalists going to the Dark Side
Journalists/PhDs have their hands full in Haiti
The Google News problem
Not looking good for the Washington Post

Last winter Bennington, Vt., got decimated by layoffs. I wrote, “The faces of a bad economy: Unemployed workers try to find their way in tough times,” just after the holidays. It was published in the Bennington Banner on Jan. 7, 2009.

BENNINGTON – Sarah Weber started noticing a difference while leaving work in her last few weeks on the job.

Weber, an administrator at NSK Steering Systems America, had to walk through the manufacturing plant’s floor to get to her car. “It used to be just as noisy and bustling as if you were going out at lunch time,” she said at her Johnsonville, N.Y., home on Monday, “but the last few weeks, it was so quiet walking out at 5 o’clock.

“It was kind of creepy — just so deathly quiet.”

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