Because you have two articles due Monday, November 24, there will be no quiz that night.
One from your beat and one sports story.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
For Huckabee, a Big 'Oops'
From WorldMagBlog:
How embarrassing
Written by Kristin Chapman
It seems Mike Huckabee needed a better proofreader for his recently released book, Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America.
After TIME published an article earlier this week that included a few excerpts from the book, some observant readers were quick to point out a rather glaring error in one of the passages.
See if you, too, can catch the mistake: “I lamented that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices — like Naaman, confronting King David in his sin and saying, ‘Thou art the man!’ — to being voices of patronage, and saying to those in power, ‘You da’ man!’”
Monday, November 17, 2008
Rupert Murdoch Optimistic on Future of Newspapers
Here is a strong statement on the future of newspapers from one of the publishing world's business geniuses. This is an excerpt. To read the entire article, click here.
Murdoch to 'Cynics': Newspapers Will Survive
SYDNEY Global media magnate Rupert Murdoch (pictured) says doomsayers who are predicting the Internet will kill off newspapers are "misguided cynics" who fail to grasp that the online world is potentially a huge new market of information-hungry consumers.
Newspaper companies in the United States and elsewhere are facing fundamental changes to their businesses as more people get their news from the Internet and other sources, and advertisers follow the market away from the paper-and-ink format.
Murdoch, the Australian-born chairman and chief executive of News Corp., said in a speech broadcast Sunday titled "The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees" that the Internet offered opportunities as well as challenges and that newspapers would always be around in some form or other.
"Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise," Murdoch said in a speech, recorded in the United States and relayed nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. It was the latest in an annual ABC series of lectures by a prominent Australian.
"Unlike the doom and gloomers, I believe that newspapers will reach new heights" in the 21st century, Murdoch said.
Post-Election Newspaper Sales Boom
Quite a few missed the quiz question for this past week about the election's effect on newspaper circulation. It was mentioned briefly in an earlier blog post--here is a little more.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Newsstands from Seattle to New York quickly sold out of Wednesday's papers declaring Barack Obama the nation's first black president as some jubilant customers picked up two, three or even 30 copies as keepsakes.
Newspapers detailing Barack Obama's historic presidential win are being gobbled up as keepsakes.
The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune in Obama's hometown were among papers that restarted their printing presses to produce hundreds of thousands of additional copies across the country.
Entrepreneurs were seeking as much as $600 for the Times on eBay Wednesday.
"Own a piece of history," Walter Elliott said as he hawked 90 copies of The Sun from a Baltimore street corner.
Some papers devoted their entire front pages to a single photo of Obama -- in the San Francisco Chronicle's case, overlaid with "OBAMA" in enormous type and a snippet from his acceptance speech: "Change has come to America." USA Today declared, "America makes history."
The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, offered high-quality reprints of the front page for $54.95. Below the headline "Change Has Come," a close-up of Obama covers three-fourths of the page.
John Penley, a white man who recalled drinking out of the "wrong" water fountain as a kid in North Carolina, searched New York's Lower East Side on Wednesday for papers to mark an event he never dreamed possible in his lifetime.
"There was one copy left at the bodega around the corner, and people were actually fighting for it," said Penley, a retired photojournalist. "I can't find a copy of any paper anywhere."
At New York's Port Authority bus terminal, Ralston Montaque grabbed 30 copies of the Times for family and friends.
"Everybody has to read (the news), brother," he said.
Say what you want about the Internet replacing printed newspapers, but saving a copy of a Web page on a disk isn't the same.
"What it really shows is there's a unique value to print," said Steve Hills, The Washington Post's president and general manager. "It's the ability to look at the whole thing and have a piece of history in your hands."
A newsstand in Evanston, Illinois, sold 100 copies of the Times in 10 minutes -- even as the major local papers, the Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, rushed to print hundreds of thousands of extra copies.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Newsstands from Seattle to New York quickly sold out of Wednesday's papers declaring Barack Obama the nation's first black president as some jubilant customers picked up two, three or even 30 copies as keepsakes.
Newspapers detailing Barack Obama's historic presidential win are being gobbled up as keepsakes.
The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune in Obama's hometown were among papers that restarted their printing presses to produce hundreds of thousands of additional copies across the country.
Entrepreneurs were seeking as much as $600 for the Times on eBay Wednesday.
"Own a piece of history," Walter Elliott said as he hawked 90 copies of The Sun from a Baltimore street corner.
Some papers devoted their entire front pages to a single photo of Obama -- in the San Francisco Chronicle's case, overlaid with "OBAMA" in enormous type and a snippet from his acceptance speech: "Change has come to America." USA Today declared, "America makes history."
The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, offered high-quality reprints of the front page for $54.95. Below the headline "Change Has Come," a close-up of Obama covers three-fourths of the page.
John Penley, a white man who recalled drinking out of the "wrong" water fountain as a kid in North Carolina, searched New York's Lower East Side on Wednesday for papers to mark an event he never dreamed possible in his lifetime.
"There was one copy left at the bodega around the corner, and people were actually fighting for it," said Penley, a retired photojournalist. "I can't find a copy of any paper anywhere."
At New York's Port Authority bus terminal, Ralston Montaque grabbed 30 copies of the Times for family and friends.
"Everybody has to read (the news), brother," he said.
Say what you want about the Internet replacing printed newspapers, but saving a copy of a Web page on a disk isn't the same.
"What it really shows is there's a unique value to print," said Steve Hills, The Washington Post's president and general manager. "It's the ability to look at the whole thing and have a piece of history in your hands."
A newsstand in Evanston, Illinois, sold 100 copies of the Times in 10 minutes -- even as the major local papers, the Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, rushed to print hundreds of thousands of extra copies.
Lutheran Publisher to Close Stores, Cut Staff
Augsburg Fortress to close stores, cut staff
Augsburg Fortress—the Minneapolis-based publishing arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America—is closing stores and shifting its publishing emphasis as part of significant changes to its operations. The move was based on a year of market analysis and business research, the publisher said.
Augsburg Fortress will close nine bookstores by April 30, 2009, company officials said. A store at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., which is not owned by Augsburg Fortress, will continue to rent space there and Augsburg's Canadian bookstores will remain open.
Additionally, Augsburg Fortress will no longer accept or sell new titles in its consumer-oriented book line, although it will continue to sell stocks on hand. Beth Lewis, president and CEO, said 55 positions will also be eliminated from Augsburg's 242-strong staff.
Unanimously approved by the board of trustees Oct. 24-25, the changes will enable Augsburg Fortress to focus its ministry on its group-use materials for congregations as well as textbooks and monographs for higher education, Lewis said.
"Augsburg Fortress is undergoing important strategic changes to focus our ministry and business—and some are very painful on a personal level as we say goodbye to wonderful colleagues," Lewis said. "We are confident that, while difficult, these changes are necessary and will enable Augsburg Fortress to be a strong and responsive organization for the future."
Augsburg Fortress—the Minneapolis-based publishing arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America—is closing stores and shifting its publishing emphasis as part of significant changes to its operations. The move was based on a year of market analysis and business research, the publisher said.
Augsburg Fortress will close nine bookstores by April 30, 2009, company officials said. A store at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., which is not owned by Augsburg Fortress, will continue to rent space there and Augsburg's Canadian bookstores will remain open.
Additionally, Augsburg Fortress will no longer accept or sell new titles in its consumer-oriented book line, although it will continue to sell stocks on hand. Beth Lewis, president and CEO, said 55 positions will also be eliminated from Augsburg's 242-strong staff.
Unanimously approved by the board of trustees Oct. 24-25, the changes will enable Augsburg Fortress to focus its ministry on its group-use materials for congregations as well as textbooks and monographs for higher education, Lewis said.
"Augsburg Fortress is undergoing important strategic changes to focus our ministry and business—and some are very painful on a personal level as we say goodbye to wonderful colleagues," Lewis said. "We are confident that, while difficult, these changes are necessary and will enable Augsburg Fortress to be a strong and responsive organization for the future."
Publishing Has Consequences
Theology Professor Leaving Traditionalist Seminary Over Bible Claims
GLENSIDE, Pa. (AP) — A theology professor who was suspended for suggesting the Bible was the work of both God and people has agreed to leave the conservative seminary where he taught.
In a joint statement, Westminster Theological Seminary and professor Peter Enns said they "arrived at mutually agreeable terms" that are effective as of Friday. No other details were released.
Westminster trustees voted in March to suspend Enns, a tenured 14-year veteran of the school, because of his 2005 book, "Inspiration and Incarnation."
Enns' book was written to help students grapple with recent scholarship suggesting contradictions in the Bible, especially the Old Testament. In it, Enns urges readers to understand the Bible is both divine and human.
Trustees said it appeared that Enns had defied the school's founding principle, based on the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith, the core creed of the Presbyterian tradition. It says that Scripture is solely the word of God and proclaims the "infallible truth" and "entire perfection" of the Bible.
Westminster, located near Philadelphia, was founded in 1929 by former Princeton Theological Seminary faculty who believed that school was becoming too liberal.
GLENSIDE, Pa. (AP) — A theology professor who was suspended for suggesting the Bible was the work of both God and people has agreed to leave the conservative seminary where he taught.
In a joint statement, Westminster Theological Seminary and professor Peter Enns said they "arrived at mutually agreeable terms" that are effective as of Friday. No other details were released.
Westminster trustees voted in March to suspend Enns, a tenured 14-year veteran of the school, because of his 2005 book, "Inspiration and Incarnation."
Enns' book was written to help students grapple with recent scholarship suggesting contradictions in the Bible, especially the Old Testament. In it, Enns urges readers to understand the Bible is both divine and human.
Trustees said it appeared that Enns had defied the school's founding principle, based on the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith, the core creed of the Presbyterian tradition. It says that Scripture is solely the word of God and proclaims the "infallible truth" and "entire perfection" of the Bible.
Westminster, located near Philadelphia, was founded in 1929 by former Princeton Theological Seminary faculty who believed that school was becoming too liberal.
Individual Consultations
I'm making available, on several dates which I've reserved for the purpose, 30-minute slots when you are invited to come to my office for an individual consultation, if you wish, on your writing, what I see as areas where you are strong or need to improve, and to discuss in general the potential of your future in journalism.
This is not a requirement, and it is entirely voluntary. You're under no obligation. But if you wish to chat, please pick a day and time on the signup sheet I'll have in class, and when you come to my office, please bring with you graded stories I've handed back (no need to bring quizzes).
If none of the times on the signup sheet works for you, and you wish to meet, we can arrange to meet at a mutually agreeable time for you.
This is not a requirement, and it is entirely voluntary. You're under no obligation. But if you wish to chat, please pick a day and time on the signup sheet I'll have in class, and when you come to my office, please bring with you graded stories I've handed back (no need to bring quizzes).
If none of the times on the signup sheet works for you, and you wish to meet, we can arrange to meet at a mutually agreeable time for you.
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