Frank Eaton, a Winston-Salem videographer and Democratic Party activist, has raised YouTube as a political communications tool to an art form. The day after the passage of the marriage amendment he had a video ready to go in which he urged opponents to identify legislators that supported the ballot initiative and work to defeat them in November.

In the final days before the voters of North Carolina rendered a decision on whether to write a ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions into the state’s constitution, the News & Record was taking some pretty serious flak for its coverage of the issue.

Conservative local blogger Joe Guarino announced he would stop maintaining his personal blog after seven years of regular commentary, in part because he said there is less of a need for his voice with the advent of Conservatives for Guilford County.

The big news in the alternative newsmedia industry is that for just the third time this century — and the seventh time in history — an alt-weekly writer has won a Pulitzer Prize. Eli Sanders of the Seattle Stranger.

Score a win for Greensboro blogger George Hartzman, whose Socratic tirades in front of city council can sometimes come across as hyperbolic.

But what’s most interesting about Hammer’s recent column about Greene Street is that it’s the first time, as far as I can tell, that his newspaper has written anything about the proposed amendment to the noise ordinance.

She hasn’t written for the Loaf in awhile and last week her association with the Locke Foundation abruptly ended when outrage erupted at a cartoon she gleaned from the internet to illustrate a blog post about President Obama’s public opposition to a...

Listeners in the Triad received a rude awakening last week, as WZTK-FM Talk 101.1 announced it was switching formats to Latino radio programming, moving some of its syndicated and local shows to the Winston-Salem-based WSJS 600 AM radio.

Now, apparently the problem is just the opposite. The News & Record and Winston- Salem Journal are two of the dozens of daily newspapers across the country that are not running this week’s “Doonesbury,” which lampoons a new Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion.

YES! Weekly took home three NC Press Awards in Division C for community newspapers with readerships of more than 10,000 last week. Editor Brian Clarey won second place in the profile feature category for “Ed Taylor’s boy” and third place in sports columns.

NC Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin’s comparison of Laura Leslie and Mark Binker to Woodward and Bernstein may be a little over the top, but other appellations in the comment thread of Leslie’s Facebook announcement that Binker is joining WRAL-TV as multimedia investigative reporter were not.

I don’t generally read N+1 magazine, the hifalutin literary journal published thrice yearly out of Brooklyn, NY, not because it isn’t an excellent periodical — it is. But the Brooklyn I remember from my youth is more about garbage blowing across the Belt Parkway and Coney Island whitefish than hipsters with MFAs wrangling poetry from their memoirs.

Kudos to bloggers Ed Cone and Roch Smith News and views from inside the media bubble for fact-checking the claim. As it turned out, the source was the poll was conducted by right-leaning Civitas rather than the left-leaning Public Policy Polling, and the poll was conducted in Charlotte rather than Greensboro.

While the newspaper is noticeably understaffed, many of the reporters at the News & Record consistently break important stories and demonstrate enterprise. When YES! Weekly came on the scene seven years ago, we looked for weaknesses at the daily newspaper and rarely missed an opportunity to dole out ridicule when we felt it was deserved.

“Bill’s tough, defiant Greensboro Daily News editorials during the civil rights era earned him a burning cross in his yard and a brick through his front window. He hired very, very good people, including Ed Yoder, Jonathan Yardley, John Alexander and editorial cartoonist Hugh Haynie.

News and views from inside the media bubble.

Last week, a repository for documents leaked by whistleblowers called Honest Appalachia arrived on the scene. Modeled after Wikileaks, the Charleston, W.Va.

The High Point Enterprise has eliminated its copy desk, outsourcing the function to a sister newspaper in Kentucky, according to recent item in the Business Journal by reporter Owen Covington.

TIMES DISGORGES REGIONAL PAPERS.

South End Press, a collectively run book publishing press out of Brooklyn, NY is struggling to stay afloat. In a call sent out through their mailing list and website, the publishers said they are in desperate financial need and called on supporters to help however possible, including by booking its authors for speaking engagements.