Prominent TV news doctor puts own name on pre-fab reports; San Francisco...
Syndicated multimedia medical reporter Dean Edell, who calls himself "America's Doctor," has for years taken credit on KGO Channel 7 for medical reports wholly or partially produced by an outside...
View ArticleKnight Ridder sale bodes ill for journalism, particularly in the Bay Area
The investor-forced sale of so esteemed and profitable a newspaper company as Knight Ridder means three things: Wall Street doesn't value quality journalism; The glory days of newspapers are behind us;...
View ArticleCommentary: Did Mercury editor cross an ethical line testifying at a city...
On Tuesday night at the San Jose City Council meeting, Mercury News Editorial Page Editor Steve Wright testified during a formal public hearing on proposals for a new law providing for more open...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice opens antitrust inquiry about potential sale of Mercury...
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has begun a series of interviews this week to determine whether the potential sale of Knight Ridder papers in the Bay Area to Dean Singleton's...
View ArticleHow clustering works at ANG newspapers
Now that the MediaNews Group, owner of nine metro dailies surrounding San Francisco, has bid for the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times, it may be instructive to look at the practice of...
View ArticleGTN advisor, much loved Stanford professor, dies
Grade the News lost a friend and guiding spirit Wednesday when Bill Woo succumbed to cancer. More importantly, the Bay Area, indeed the world, lost one of its most insightful journalists and educators.
View ArticleMercury News and Contra Costa Times sold to MediaNews
The San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times were sold by the McClatchy Co. to the MediaNews Group of Denver as part of a four-newspaper $1 billion deal announced Wednesday. The sale would lead...
View ArticleGrade the News wins two national journalism awards
Grade the News has been named the 2006 receipient of the award for media criticism given by the Cultural and Critical Studies Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass...
View ArticleJune 1 panel on media ownership in San Francisco
Join the Society of Professional Journalists and Media Alliance for a panel discussion titled, "The Coming Media Monopoly: Concentration of Press Ownership and Its Effects on Democracy," June 1 at 7...
View ArticleCommentary: Longing for the Good Old Days of American Journalism
When we look back on 2006, several decades from now, we may recall it as the good old days for news -- and everything else.
View ArticleCan California still be considered a democracy?
A new study warns that just 15% of the state's adults are deciding who governs California and which propositions pass. And that 15% is increasingly unrepresentative of the state's diversity....
View ArticleGuest commentary: The critical press. Inflamatory coverage of mishap at a...
SFGate.com, the Web site of the San Francisco Chronicle, last week provided a fascinating look at how both initial newspaper coverage and Web 2.0 technologies can help shape perception of a story. At...
View ArticleGuest commentary: The crisis of consolidation in Bay Area news media
The core counties of the San Francisco Bay Area have a population of about six million people. In addition to their seven county governments, they include scores of cities, towns, sheriff's and police...
View ArticleDavid Halberstam, 1934-2007
Halberstam recognized what a privilege it was to have attained the recognition from peers and the ability just to write books for a living. But he also indicated that it was much, much more than a job....
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