The Journal Journey

Trib Total Media's plans to close seven suburban weekly newspapers will be replaced with expanded coverage in other journals, the company said Friday in its flagship daily newspaper, the Tribune-Review.  

Next week, I am rolling out a monthly writing challenge. My hope is that it will be a way for writers and non-writers alike to flex their creative muscles once a month in a separate stream from their work–be it your day job or that novel, story or article in-progress that is starting to...  

I’m getting the Kindle-shakes now… Books completed in weeks 10 and 11 “Neverwhere: A Novel” (Neil Gaiman) (Audiobook) “The Shack” (William P. Young) “Fatal Deduction” (Gayle Roper) Books read or started in weeks 10 and 11 “The Stories of John Cheever” (John Cheever) “Characters and Viewpoint...  

Bolivian officials on Monday unveiled journals written by Marxist guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara during his failed attempt to spread revolution in the Andean country, where he was killed in 1967.  

The Yolo Community Foundation and WAVE TV 21 are pleased to be hosting an invaluable two-day grant writing class, Getting Smart About Getting Grants, taught by experienced trainer Harvey Chess. "If your organization is considering grants as an income stream and is new to the process, or your  

The first independent, academic study of the redesigned SAT college entrance exam finds that the new writing portion is a much better predictor of academic success than the verbal and math portions of the exam.  

DOHA • The pursuit of writing literature is hindered by a lack of time and space for many people living in the Gulf, according to a noted Indian writer.  

A grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has enabled Blinn College to host 50 high school juniors and seniors from Brenham and Bellville for a three-week writing summer camp for students who are college bound, but not necessarily college ready.  

The Kung Fu Panda could be helping to vanquish the curse of China's lacklustre film industry after the country's senior advisors on Friday called for less government control on creativity.  

A novelist's work is never done. They're always thinking, plotting, writing, dreaming up stories and weaving them into fiction. And that IS work, as Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford can tell you. Martha Teichner paid him a visit.  

The writing on an ancient stone may contribute to a re-evaluation of popular and scholarly views of Jesus.  

Richard Aregood: Today, papers are obesssed with 'creativity' and 'innovation', but they need to focus more on just producing good journalism  

For this intriguing book, Carole Burns interviewed 43 authors about the writing life, from the nuts and bolts of fiction (how to breathe life into a character) to more general comments on inspiration and influences.  

It looks like David Weddle and Bradley Thompson won't be writing the "Battlestar Galactica" telemovie after all.  

CARNEYS POINT TWP. The Salem County Chamber of Commerce will present a business writing workshop on July 16 at 8:30 a.m. The two-hour program will be hosted and sponsored by the Hampton Inn, 429 N. Broadway, Pennsville.