Who says investigative journalism is dead! Yes, it may be getting cut right and left but this is a great example of why newspapers/investigative reporting (in one form or another) are so important… From Poynter.com: A Sacramento TV station is reporting that Chandra Levy’s parents received a call from authorities Friday afternoon notifying them that an arrest would be coming soon in the 2001 murder of their daughter. A Washington, D.C., station said D.C. police “submitted evi... Read Full Story

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will give $800 million in emergency aid for the country’s failing newspaper industry. He wants to boost the newspaper reading habits among young people in France, but many of them think the French press has too much opinion and not enough reporting. Read Full Story

Interesting story this week on NPR on the failing state of journalism and new models for potential survival. Listen to the NPR report HERE. Also a related report in TIME “How to Save Your Newspaper.” Read it HERE. Read Full Story

The Christian Science Monitor is becoming the first national newspaper to quit a printed edition of their newspaper. They will move the focus to online content instead. More info at csmonitor.com. How soon will it be for other major newspapers to follow suit? What does it mean for journalism? Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Writing elsewherewin a lokey limited edition printThe Christian Science Monitor to Become a Weekly Read Full Story

TV is feeling left out of the popularity of social networking. From The Wall Street Journal: The movement was pioneered in part by videogame-console makers such as Microsoft Corp. as a way to connect hard-core gamers for competitive matches, and it is gaining momentum as those companies and others seek to entice a broader audience to chat with friends, share photos and recommend movies and music over their television screens. Analysts say social networking has the potential to play a key role... Read Full Story

Gotta love juicy TV news anchor gossip! Here’s a goodie from MediaBistro.com today, who in turn foudn it at the New York Post: New Philly TV News Scandal (P6) - Another lurid scandal involving news anchors in Philadelphia has erupted - and it promises to be juicy. Lori Delgado, the sexy morning news presenter on WCAU-TV, quit this week — days after she and the station were hit with a legal notice from the NBC-owned channel’s ex-afternoon anchor, Vince DeMentri, that he inten... Read Full Story

What will the newspaper of the future look like? According to the American Journalism Review it will look like this: A smaller, less frequently published version packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies that may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product. Read the rest of the AJR article HERE. This is a great topic for discussion for newsrooms (newspaper and TV) and in college classrooms. How would students change ne... Read Full Story

Here’s an interesting look at how the CBS head honcho views newspapers and what his real concerns are… not news values, not being the watchdog, MONEY MONEY MONEY… Is there anything that can be done about this type of view of the media to save journalism? From this morning’s media roundup on MediaBistro.com: Les Moonves Wants to Put Newspapers Out of Business (Wired/Epicenter) CBS chief Leslie Moonves says the purchase of CNET instantly made CBS a “major player... Read Full Story

From MediaBistro.com: Todd and Sarah Palin Unchallenged in Fox Interviews (LAT) James Rainey: Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren produced three nights of infotainment so frothy, slanted and off-point that they challenged even their cable network’s low standards. Given a chance to address real issues, Fox instead condescended to both Palins, with Van Susteren’s cringe-worthy paean to Arctic beauty and Todd Palin’s machismo, and Hannity’s weak-kneed idolization of Alask... Read Full Story

Not surprising to hear, but a new report is out that says more and more Americans are watching TV online. The Conference Board reports: Online TV viewing has been gaining in popularity. Nearly one-fifth of American households who use the internet watch television broadcasts online, double the viewership from 2006, The Conference Board and TNS report today. The top two destinations for online broadcasts are the official TV channel homepage and YouTube.com. Why? That answer is not surprising ei... Read Full Story