Journalism News: Page 5
San Francisco Chronicle May Be Next Paper to Charge for Online Content (April 5, 2011): The Bay Citizen is reporting that Heart Corporation is considering implemtning a paywall for sfgate.
Lady Gaga to Write Column for V Magazine (April 3, 2011): Lady Gaga has signed on to write a column for V magazine.
List of the Most Overused Marketing Buzzwords (August 13, 2010): Search and PR strategist Adam Sherk has compiled a list of the most overused terms in press releases.
Rick Atkinson to Receive 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement (June 22, 2010): Author, historian and journalist Rick Atkinson will receive the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
Clive Owen to Play Ernest Hemingway in Movie (June 17, 2010): Clive Owen will play Ernest Hemingway in the upcoming film, Hemingway & Gellhorn. The film will co-star Nicole Kidman.
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Created (May 13, 2010): ESPN and the PEN American Center have announced the formation of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.
Roger Ebert's Inspiring Life After Cancer (February 16, 2010): Esquire has an interesting article about what life is today for Roger Ebert.
P.D. James Blasts BBC (January 4, 2010): Bestselling mystery author P.
U.S. Writers Protest Imprisonment of Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo (December 31, 2009): In New York today Edward Albee, E.
U.S. Media Running Afoul of British Libel Laws (November 12, 2009): Libel laws are much stricter in Great Britain than they are in the U.
Garrison Keillor Suffers Mild Stroke (September 9, 2009): Writer and humorist Garrison Keillor has suffered a mild stroke and has been hospitalized in Rochester, Minnesota.
Liz Jones Infuriates the Locals (September 4, 2009): Infamous British columnist Liz Jones, who gained a large following describing her disastrous love life and failed marriage, eventually left London to move to a farmhouse near Dulverton on the edge of Exmoor in the country.
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Win 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement (August 20, 2009): The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Committee has announced that authors and journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn will receive the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Oscar Winning Screenwriter Budd Schulberg is Dead at 95 (August 6, 2009): Novelist, boxing journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg has died.
Terrorism and Censorship: An Interview With Peter Lance (July 10, 2009): Peter Lance explains how U.S. District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald threatened to sue his publisher and stop publication of his 9/11 expose Triple Cross.
Israel's Haaretz Newspaper Let Poets Write the News (June 16, 2009): Forward reports that Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon let authors and poets write the newspapers' daily news for a day instead of journalists.
George Clooney Vlogs About Rooming With Nicholas Kristof (March 17, 2009): George Clooney just returned from a trip to Chad with NBC to highlight the devastating conditions the people there face.
Sara Nelson Talks Books (February 5, 2009): Publishing insiders were shocked when Sara Nelson, the innovative and well-liked editor in chief of Publisher's Weekly was summarily laid off by Reed Information systems as part of an overall corporate restructuring.
Washington Post to Stop Publishing Book World Section (January 28, 2009): Newspaper book sections have been shrinking and disappearing over the past few years.
Pulitzer Prize Board to Consider Online News Organizations (December 9, 2008): The Pulitzer Prize Board announced yesterday that they will be expanding the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism to include news organizations that publish only on the Internet.
