As a journalist, Schorr was able to bring to contemporary news commentary a deep sense of how governmental institutions and players operate, as well as the perspective gained from decades of watching history upfront.

“He could compare presidents from Eisenhower on through, and that gave him historical context for things,” said Donald A. Ritchie, Senate historian and author of a book about the Washington press corps. “He had lived it, he had worked it and he had absorbed it. That added a layer to his broadcasting that was hard for somebody his junior to match.”

Schorr’s 20-year career as a foreign correspondent began in 1946. After serving in U.S. Army intelligence during World War II, he began writing from Western Europe for the Christian Science Monitor and later The New York Times, witnessing postwar reconstruction, the Marshall Plan and the creation of the NATO alliance.

Read more at the NPR piece about Schorr’s life

“This partnership builds on the strength of Gannett’s growing digital business and powerful local brands,” says Gracia Martore, president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Gannett. “Working with Yahoo! will allow us to offer targeted advertising messages with unmatched local audience reach.” Read more here…

A recent study from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard took a look back at the coverage and found that four of the largest newspapers did not classify it as torture after 2004, even though for the previous century they had. Neal Desai, the main author of the paper, explains how they found this dramatic shift….hear this compelling update at On The Media

The Loeb Awards, among the highest honors in business journalism, have been presented for 36 years by Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles. They were established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a financier and founding partner of E.F. Hutton, to encourage quality reporting in business, finance and the economy. Read more here

“Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what’s killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business, the company wants to fix it—for commercial as well as civic reasons: if news organizations stop producing great journalism, says one Google executive, the search engine will no longer have interesting content to link to. So some of the smartest minds at the company are thinking about this, and working with publishers, and peering ahead to see what the future of journalism looks like. Guess what? It’s bright.”

The only problem is, is that “Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content”, have nothing to do with journalism whatsoever, they’re specific to the newspaper industry only. I don’t know about you, but 75-90% of the people I know find their news online from a large variety of sources: news agencies, social Media, news-oriented websites, radio, blogs, etc. The Newspaper industry while bleeding, is still a profit-heavy business. With this being said, the article DOES have a lot of interesting information on Google’s effect on the Newspaper industry

The Herald-News filed Freedom of Information Act requests with area schools in order to gain a clearer picture of how taxpayer money is being used to pay superintendents. The base salary a superintendent earns is just a part of his or her total compensation. Stipends, annuities, unused vacation and other allowances can add thousands of dollars on top of each school chief’s base pay. Read more about the awards here…

Various newspaper companies’ attempts to place newspaper racks in the terminals were rebuffed by the airport authority, which cited security and other concerns. Definitely hard to argue with this one. Reading enough news might unknowingly educate the public. If that’s not a threat to the United States well being, then what is? More here…