Living in the aftermath of the bloody Jan. 8 rampage in Tuscon that left six dead and US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, its hard to think of a story more saturated with commentary. On Monday night, host Jason Lewis was discoursing on the lefts hypocrisy in drawing a line between hyperbolic rhetoric and violent acts on Rush Radio 94.

The copy desk at a city paper is one of the layers between a raw story and the reading public, where spelling and grammar are fine-tuned, facts checked, headlines and cutlines written, structure and style imposed. These functions were performed by a staff of one part-time and 17 full-time employees, whose positions have been eliminated.

Driven by a rapidly growing minority population, and an influx of New England transplants to the metropolitan areas of Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte currently a leading contender to host the 2012 Democratic convention the Tar Heel State has become increasingly liberal over the last decade.

In addition to the honor, Owens takes home a $3,000 prize. In addition to her duties at YES! Weekly, she is also an accomplished fine artist with work hanging in galleries across the Triad. To see more of it, go to www.jordangrace.com.

Okay, Ill admit it: Sometimes, when Im doing my news gathering for the day, Ill pass by Gawker.com to see what the angsty New York types have dredged up from the rumor mill.

When the Denver Post issued a copyright infringement warning against unauthorized use of their content last month, news-watchers wondered: Whats up with that.

News and views from inside the media bubble by Jordan Green.

Breaking news about technology and media often comes in a mad dash between competing outlets in the global power centers of San Francisco/Silicon Valley, New York and London, with each media entity hyper-linking to the others in an attempt to have the most comprehensive, up-to-date report.

The newest outrage among grizzled, dug-in journalists — as evidenced by a slew of media coverage in the past two weeks — is the content farm: big companies like Examiner.com and Demand Media who hire new and unemployed journalists to churn out stories, sometimes dozens a week, based on whatever people are searching the web for.

As a progressive journo interested in exploring technological innovations in delivering news to citizens, you would think that the Huffington Post would be my new model. Instead it sums up all the inward-looking, self-reinforcing trends I hate the most about the media.

A press release hit in-boxes for the Greensboro Police Department's distribution list at 9:28 a.m. on Election Day. "Traffic check point, 2200 block Phillips Ave.," it read. The operation set up between Drexel Road and Lombardy Street and ran from 10 a.m. to noon.

When Greensboro newspaper the Rhinoceros Times was in its heyday, rarely did a week go by without a mention — or, at least, a party photo — of club owner, favored advertiser and “Mayor of Elm Street” Joey Medaloni.

Direct mail remains the most effective medium for reaching voters, using addresses, voting history, party registration, race and gender to target key demographics in candidates efforts to turn out their respective bases. In comparison, broadcast television is a much cruder method.

When I get dispirited that the truth is being steamrolled on a national battlefield of moneyed interests, partisan talking points and political media combines located primarily in Washington and New York, I console myself with the thought that local...

Kim Underwood, a 25-year veteran reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, stepped down last week. The Journal did not issue a formal statement about Underwood's departure but confirmed the news by responding to a letter from reader Eric S. Spaugh. "So now Kim Underwood is gone?" Spaugh wrote in a letter published on Sept.

Producers of the popular childrens TV show Sesame Street decided to not include an appearance by pop singer, Katy Perry, in the shows season premiere, which aired Monday.

On Monday, Zoe Hayes, the editor of the Purdue Exponent student newspaper, issued an apology for the Sept. 17 installment of a weekly feature known as sex position of the week.

Ernest C. Withers, a freelance photographer who sold his images to the black press and became a trusted companion of many movement leaders, is known as the original civil rights photographer.

I love Dan Savage, editorial director of Seattles The Stranger and curator of the Savage Love sex-advice column that runs in scores of alt-weeklies around the world. We are not one of those alt-weeklies much as I love the guy, his column is as graphic and raw as it gets (take a look for yourself at www.

Officials in Philadelphia last week decided that the bloggers of that city should be held to the same fiscal standards as other businesses inside city limits and wants them to buy business privilege licenses and pay taxes on any income they generate. Our initial response: Ha ha ha! Where is a blogger gonna get $300?.