“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.

News comes from the blog of Greensboro’s Dr. Joe Guarino of a new publication which may be starting in Guilford County in response to political coverage by the Rhinoceros Times during the recent city council election, with which Guarino finds fault.

It’s true that I have often butted heads with Greensboro blogger, self-appointed ombudsman at large and overall smug loudmouth Roch Smith Jr. on a number of issues. But beneath our gentle back-and-forth banter there is, I believe, a mutual respect.

Fellow AAN member paper the Houston Press ran a feature on its website titled 4 brilliant authors and why theyre douchebags. Topping the list is Triad-based author and Rhinoceros Times columnist Orson Scott Card, whose sci-fi

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has filed for this weeks series of strips illustrating excerpts from the new book The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, an unauthorized biography of the former Alaska governor by Joe McGinniss, who moved next door to Palin

An internal e-mail from the Greensboro News & Record obtained by YES! Weekly outlines preliminary changes made to the papers fauxalt, GoTriad, in the wake of declining revenues and personnel layoffs.

As the Republican primary revs up in early election states such as Iowa and New Hampshire, the mainstream press has delved, mostly uncomfortably, into the religiosity of candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. Bachmann has been the subject of a spate of articles and online chatter in this regard.

We felt the building shaking a bit on Tuesday afternoon as we were putting the paper together not much, but enough, and for a long enough period, that we knew something was amiss. A look outside showed no wind or thunder, and we all stood out there wondering, Have we just been through an earthquake in central North Carolina? We had.

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Visitors to the city of Greensboros new website still the same old URL at www.greensboro-nc. gov are treated to a home page slide show that includes an autumnal water shot, a vista of the view from NewBridge Bank Park

There hasnt been enough reporting on the halting debate over whether and how to compensate victims of North Carolinas shameful forced-sterilization program that blemished the state through the early 1970s. Thats just my opinion, and its given with the open acknowledgement that our newsroom hasnt pulled its weight.

The News of the World phone hacking scandal turned media frenzy has grabbed the attention of many with allegations of improperly accessing the voicemails of celebrities and victims of crime, continual improprieties, the resignation of police...

If youre like me, you learned about the death of Osama bin Laden through Facebook. And the instant outpouring of emotion, along with spontaneous analysis and punditry, by people you knew and respected made it seem somewhat pointless to generate any kind of journalistic product from the event.

The news for daily newspapers is somewhat like the news for the American economy in general, except that the travails of the newspaper industry started around 2005, as opposed to late 2008. The news is outlook remains dismal with few, if any, signs of resurgence.

The cartoon appears to be a tipping point, as people are calling for a campaign against the Rhino because they say the cartoon reflects a pattern of espousing racism or whitewashing race relations in the city. A Facebook page urging people to call the Rhinos advertisers in protest quickly gained 150 attendees.