JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Media

Friday, August 6, 2010

Patch.com -- New on the Net

Check out Patch.com for hyper-local news. And coming in late September, see Chatsworth Patch. In the meantime, click over to Twitter and follow ChatsworthPatch and TwitterPatch. Sphere: Related Content

Monday, April 26, 2010

WSJ Launches New York Section

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

A Bad Morning at The New York Times

By Russell Baker

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. Childhood was work and study, study and work, and though they do not always guarantee success, for Gerald Boyd they did just what movies, books, and professional moralizers said they would do, probably because his widowed grandmother contributed a lot of wisdom, love, and iron to the self-making; and in his early fifties Gerald Boyd became managing editor of The New York Times. This was the second most important job in the newsroom of one of the world’s better newspapers. He was the first black ever to reach such a dazzling position in theTimes hierarchy, and the gaudiest job of all—the executive editorship—seemed within his reach almost until the very moment he was fired. [Click for More] Sphere: Related Content