News Industry Plans for War and Worries About Lost AdsSome worry about war for philosophical or moral reasons, some for monetary reasons.

Got my mind on the media, and the media on my mindHere's a blog from the new listing of blogs that are useful, but don't fit on the J-curve as getting lots of hits. I enjoyed the entry about Ryan Phillips, new publisher of the Montgomery Journal. How is this for a quote from a publisher:

ormer reporters and editors at the paper say that Phillips, who did not graduate from college, was unprepared for the job. "At one point Ryan said: 'Why do we need copy editors? All they do is cut copy that sits around the ads,' " Scheltema said.

What are we supposed to tell the students?

Well, here is a discussion (and call for examples) of journalists who write online-only columns. Some are professional journalists, some are community folks who write when they can. It won't be long until there won't be such surprise over this kind of writing Read the column Is it time to stop calling the specialty of writing for an audience that reads, "print" and calling it what it actually is, "intellectual capital" or "dynamic text?"

Poynter Online - Cokie's Conflict of Interest Better than a hypothetical, here is a conflict for a real reporter.

Here is a good one from the Daily Mirror