The announcement came today. The Journal Star’s new Website will “go live” at about 8 p.m. Tuesday:
The new Web site should generally run faster than the current site. It features a brighter, cleaner look along with a new logo. It should also be easier for users to navigate. Depending on your Internet service provider, it […]
It took a more than a couple days, but the anonymous gnomes who pen official opinions on the Journal Star’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page have finally editorialized about the stunning drop in violent crime from te same time last years.
As readers may recall, recently I chastised the Journal Star for failing to quote Peoria Mayor […]
Check this out: The spiffy new State Journal-Register Web site has an easy-to-access pagelisting all their house bloggers … followed by a list of “Sprngfieldish” bloggers.
Very cool.
My advice to the SJ-R: Constantly monitor this list of links. Bloggers come and go. In Peoria, this is especially true.
And I notice that Disarranging Mine is conspicuously absent […]
More sad news for the state of Journalism in West-Central Illinois:
Eagle Publications of Western Illinois, Inc. announced today it has agreed to sell the Macomb Eagle and related publications to GateHouse Media. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is scheduled to be completed May 31.
Eagle Publications of Western Illinois, Inc. was owned […]
Once again, HOINews came through for parents at District 150 schools. Last night, I caught their 10 p.m. newscast, and there were two — count ‘em, TWO — reports related to the quality of education at Peoria’s public schools. One was a follow-up to the station’s original report on how some school’s aren’t meeting state-mandated […]
The Peoria Journal Star couldn’t find a way to mention Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis’ name even once when it devoted four stories Sunday to how the murder rate has dropped (details avaialable here).
But when they ran a story today casting doubt on the success of a committee that’s just getting off the ground, this is the […]
Today’s award-winning (snicker) editorial page opines on teenagers who help pick up litter. They are in favor.
Still no comment on the drop in the the murder rate.
While I have yet to see an announcement on the Journal Star’s Website (perhaps I missed it), the Springfield’s GateHouse Media newspaper is keeping its readers informedof the coming changes, with a nice long story detailng what is coming:
The State Journal-Register’s Web site will look different when you log on Tuesday night. Sj-r.com will change […]
Remember how the Peoria Journal Star quoted a bunch of politicians and political scientists complaining that the bloggers are obsessed with dredging up old quotes to make people look bad, thus providing a disincentive to participate in the process. Well, I wouldn’t include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart among the digital media, but they’ve […]
I was at One World the other day at what I incorrectly thought was an off-the-record lunch. I picked up the latest issue of Numero, No. 26. I have to say this little magazine/entertainment guide is beginning to grow on me. Maybe that’s because they interviewed me for their article on how blogging is becoming […]
I was chatting with one of the parents who unsuccessfully tried to convince District 150 to NOT gouge 45 minutes of instructional time from primary schools. His assessment mirrored my own: HOI News has presented the best coverage, hand’s down, of the whole controversy.
And this was before today’s story about how at least one school’s […]
I know I shouldn’t gloat … considering my own issues with domain expiration.
But still.
I’m sure the domain will start working …. tomorrow. In the evening.
UPDATE: It’s 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday. I’m still getting that placeholder page. The same thing happened to me. The site was unavailable for at least 18 hours for some of my […]
Attention newspaper editors and reporters: When you are doing a story about political bloggers, it might — just might — be a good idea to pick up the phone and, you know, talk to a political blogger.
Sunday’s Journal Star includes an article about how technology is shaping politics. There’s even a segment on how blogs […]
This news is enough to make me sick for the future of the wire service:
Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members joining the board of directors of The Associated Press, it was announced Monday at the news cooperative’s annual meeting.In other […]
