Do you have faith?

A blog with prayers and news about the newspaper biz. I don't know if it will help pull us all up from this nosedive, but sure as heck can't hurt.

And for my next trick (trip)

This sounds like an absolute hoot. This could be done over a long weekend with four or five people. Might need to do it sooner rather than later given the rising cost of petrol.

One more potential future of journalism

The notion of a news outlet being based on a non-profit model could be one more way to keep the integrity of journalism alive and ditch the heroin-like greed of Wall Street's expectations. I believe there are a lot of folks watching MinnPost.com with a magnifying glass and microscope. Let's hope they continue to become a viable enterprise.

The cuts just keep on coming

So here's some scary ugly numbers about the number of media jobs lost this year and total jobs lost in the country this year. Absolutely astounding. Well, you might as well add nine more to the total of media jobs cut. The Camera laid off one in the newsroom and eight others yesterday. I knew it was going to be too hard to be positive in these posts.

Found via Journerdism

Future of news online?

Very simple idea by Josh Wolf using readily available and inexpensive online tools to disseminate news and info. They did a proof of concept during the Olympic torch protests in San Fransisco. More evidence that smaller groups of journalists coming together will be able to find a niche and find their place in on the Internet.

Found via Frontline's Twitter feed