Klement, a Pulitzer Prize winner with the Detroit Free Press, and for many years, editorial page editor of the Bradenton Herald, has passed away at 81.As editor of the Muenster Enterprise, I… Read More

I saw a week ago that the founder and owner of Hartman Newspapers had died.I'm not really an "ear to the grapevine" person on Texas newspapers. I'm here in a job and if a non-Texas newspaper… Read More

Per the poll at top right, let's dig in.First, I know the periodicals mail rate hikes aren't likely to fully stand as is. But, they're likely to at least 50 percent stand. The old days are o… Read More

 I've said this myself, starting three years ago, on the ratings decline of local teevee news. Now, Dick Tofel of Pro Publica says that national teevee network news, which can be a big… Read More

OK, last month, Pocket gave me this story from The Atlantic: "We Should All be More Afraid of Driving."Summary? Joshua Sharpe works for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Reports on "police s… Read More

 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