Moises Mendoza, the reporter at the Houston Chronicle, wants everybody to know that he is not Moises Sandoval Mendoza, the serial killer on Texas' death row. Not only do they share the same name but their dates of birth are 15 days apart, reporter Mendoza writes in the Nov.

Greensboro blogger Ryan Shell, though he failed to survive the Greensboro City Council primary election in his bid for an at-large seat earlier this month, still has his sights set on city doings. He posted a bit of found YouTube video on his campaign website (www.

All three of us in the editorial department of YES! Weekly can recall the gnawing anxiety of the job search in the unstable world of journalism. For me, it took place in 2003 and 2004.

A new research study being released today shows that the great majority of attention toward the economy and it's less-than-graceful plummet was focused on Washington and the banking and auto industries, with less attention aimed towards those who matter: the people using the banks and driving the cars.

The lines get blurry out there in FoxNation, apparently, between reporting and activism. Video posted on The Huffington Post website on Sept. 19 shows a woman identified as Fox News producer Heidi Noonan waving her arms to the crowd behind reporter Griff Jenkins at the Sept.

To steal an oft-used phrase from Rhinoceros Times.

Just heating up at press time is the hoofaraw at Ed Cone's blog (www.edcone.typepad.com) about News Record columnist Charles Davenport's Sunday piece in which he slings some assumptions about Nazis, liberals and socialism.

The brave and few among the ranks of our profession who are interested in reporting on the war in Afghanistan could be screened by a controversial Washington public relations firm, according to a Monday report in Stars and Stripes newspaper.

The fall issues of fashion magazines are usually packed full with designer advertisements displaying their newest collection for the upcoming season. This year magazines like Vogue, Elle, InStyle and Harper's Bazaar are losing some fall weight.

Possibly the best food writing job in the world - the position of restaurant critic for The New York Times once held by Frank Bruni - has gone to a journalist with roots in alternative newsweeklies. Sam Sifton, who comes from his desk as The Times' cultural editor, was named by Executive Editor Bill Keller as Bruni's replacement.