Reports of the death of the newspaper are greatly exaggerated. Long live the newspaper. So says bestselling author Dave Eggers, who with a small editorial team, published Panorama, a 320-page newspaper that sold out its 20,000 print-run in December.
The prolific publisher discussed the newspaper business as a guest of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of [...]
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Dave Eggers decries the death of the newspaper
Planet in spin, goes online only
In a lengthy editorial in today’s Berkeley Daily Planet (which is not yet online update read it here), publisher Michael O’Malley and executive editor Becky O’Malley announce that the paper is giving up print publication “for the moment”. They write:
The only way to cut expenses further is to give up print publication for the moment. [...]
Berkeley reporters to dig into unsolved Civil Rights murders
The Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting has just announced that it will launch investigations into a number of unsolved, racially-motivated murders committed during the Civil Rights era.
CIR will team up with Paperny Films of Vancouver, WNET of New York, National Public Radio, the National Archives, and other organization to form the Civil Rights Cold Case [...]
“Flanagan made me choke on my chard”
Berkeley freelance writer Sarah Henry, who muses about food and family matters on her blog, Lettuce Eat Kale, was so hot under the collar after reading Caitlin Flanagan’s “Cultivating Failure” article in The Atlantic, she had to wait a week to cool off before responding. Henry volunteers at King Middle School’s Edible Schoolyard. Here’s her [...]
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