I recently saw this year's Texas Press Association directory.I noticed two things when I turned to page 1.First is that they got a Texas Parks and Wildlife staff photog to do the cover… Read More

 This is a follow-up to my previous post about Dennis and Theresa Phillips and a sidebar of Jim Moser.Just saw the latest TPA directory.I knew Marlin and Rosebud had been bleeding subsc… Read More

Michael Schudson, a Columbia journalism prof, no less, and his PhD student, I presume, Jueni Duyen Tran, have an overall good article at Columbia Journalism Review about whether and how much… Read More

 The Mineral Wells Index, in Palo Pinto County, Texas, closed as of the first of the year. It had cut to semiweekly either at the start of, or maybe before the start of, the pandemic. I… Read More

So, the News-Telegram hired a managing editor in June 2017.Less newspaper experience than I. Half of it explicitly listed as advertorial writing, on the writing and editing.Less desktop publ… Read More

Three years ago, I "tried to go home again."I had been at the Marlin Democrat longer than any other paper besides my nearly nine years at Today Newspapers in suburban Dallas.In the summer of… Read More

I don't read everything in Editor and Publisher's roundup of headlines, but I do hit a fair bit. And, its piece on COVID-related circ declines was certainly of interest. The full story… Read More

 A week ago, I blogged about how the Dallas Morning News, aka the Snooze, had a 10-percent or so adhole in its issue the Thursday before that.Today? Even worse. Despite MORE obits… Read More

 I remember a Facebook group in Marlin running rumor as fact, but NOTHING like what is reportedly happening in Beaver Falls and Beaver Township, Pennsylvania.I had a pair of regular wee… Read More

 And, on a Thursday, not a Monday paper (if Belo is still publishing the Snooze in print seven days a week).Yes, you read that right — a 10 percent adhole on its March 25 issue, a… Read More