I didn’t get the update done quite at the start of the month, but better late than never.
It’s a good issue this month, with news articles about upcoming Earth Day festivities, interviews with both Aaron Schock and Colleen Callahan, as well as the usual slate of columnists, including myself.
Also, publisher Debbie Adlof has bitten the [...]

This time, the victim is the Dover Post in Delaware.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
– Thomas Jefferson. 

For the first time in a loooong time, I was able to get the CW site updated before the month was half over. Anyway, I’m sure my regular readers will enjoy some of the columns and articles. So dig in.

A newspaper columnist did the math and figured out that it really DOES make sense to stop printing the newspaper and go online only. Gee, where have we heard THAT before?

The State Journal Register is losing its top three bosses:
Publisher Sue Schmitt, editor Barry Locher and managing editor Robert Pope each cited personal and professional reasons in notices to the newspaper staff today. Each also said the decisions were voluntary and were reached independently.
“We know our positions on the newspaper’s masthead give us more visibility [...]

For years, the Galesburg Register-Mail’s Website was a clone of the Journal Star’s somewhat clunky, but still generally usable site. They’ve just switched to a new, cleaner-looking design. I didn’t use their old version enough to judge whether this one is more usable than the old version. It looks nicer. I see that they are [...]

Kudos to Marie Carnes for linking to a group of media-central articles in the the Illinois Times, Springfield’s intelligent alternative weekly newspaper. I enjoyed the piece on the State Journal Register under GateHouse Media and on how low salaries affect area television stations. For years, I’ve hated the fact that Springfield has a decent alternative [...]

Here are some links to keep readers amused over the weekend.
First, there’s an interesting thread going on at Peoria.com titled ‘What is the REAL purpose of a blog?‘ The poster in question claims to be a classmate of mine from Woodruff High School, but it remaining anonymous for now. There’s been some thoughtful give and [...]

I’m still thinking about my post about Scott Adams belief that it’s an economic fact that online will eventually replace print media. There have a been many predictions about the demise of the newspaper. Some of the dates in those predictions have come and passed. But ad sales DO continue to decline. Newspapers DO continue [...]

From a speech at the bi-annual Newspaper Quality Improvement Technical Meeting, via Newspapers and Technology:
“Newspapers are under great stress,” said Norm Harbin, vice president of business and technical development at Flint Group as he addressed the group. “What are things we can do to transform newspapers and get back to [...]

Phil Luciano’s column yesterday was the best he’e ever written. Of course, disgruntled gas station owner Terry Beachler wrote half of it.
Seriously, it was funny stuff.
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Peoria’s best news and entertainment weekly now has it’s own Web site: http://rctimes.net
The decision was made to not run articles on the site, which I have to admit is pretty ironic considering my consistent efforts to get newspapers to use the Internet more. But the does have contact information, a listing of upcoming articles, [...]

After an unforgiveable delay, the Community Word Online Edition has posted articles from this month’s issue.
Go and give it a read. Roger Monroe’s take on the Peoria Election Commission Controvery is particularly humorous.
Unfortunately, columnist J.D. Wheeler is missing. Health problems are keeping his from submitting a column.
Get well soon, J.D.
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A University of Illinois student was struck and killed by a city bus on Thursday evening. In addition to regular coverage in the Daily Illini student newspaper, Editor Kiyoshi Martinez devoted his blog to providing details and observations about the developing story.
This is a wonderful example of how the Internet and blogging technology can be [...]