Author: OPC of America

The debate is always black and white for a website: put up a paywall or lose money. But the Daily Mail‘s website is getting so big it needn’t do either.

Mallary Jean Tenore at Poynter writes: The Chicago Tribune‘s infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline, the 2000 election night calls for Al Gore and then George Bush, a 2004 Providence Journal headline that said, “Rumsfeld’s Pubic Role is Shrinking.”

Conrad Black could be out of jail this week after scoring a major legal victory in his ongoing battle to overturn convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice.

As America begins to draw down its troops seven years after the invasion of Iraq, Falah Azzawi represents the grittiest of the country’s reporters.

At a time when many newsrooms are contracting or consolidating, the BBC is growing its editorial operations with an original news site aimed at the American audience. Launching Thursday, BBC.com will feature U.S.-focused articles on politics and general news to be produced by a staff of around 10 journalists based in the company’s Washington bureau. BBC.com defaults viewers to BBC.co.uk, the U.K. home page, but will change over for the launch.

Longer hours, more pressure, decreasing quality and less enjoyable work. Old media is a dark, dark place for journalism – at least that’s the mood of many of the journalists who were interviewed for the annual Oriella digital journalism study.

Pete Hamill has written 10 novels, finished an 11th, written a memoir and four other non-fiction books plus numerous magazine articles, covered several wars and served as editor of the New York Post and the Daily News of New York. And on this June 26, two days after his 75th birthday, he graduated from high school.

In a multimedia environment, it’s difficult for a magazine to break news, but that’s what a Rolling Stone profile of Gen. McChrystal did. But if you wanted to read that profile, tough luck.

Journalist and author Alanna Mitchell received the $75,000 Grantham Prize for her book, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis. The book, published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and by The University of Chicago Press in the U.S., is a stirring account of the threats facing the ocean.

Joselito Agustin, a broadcaster in the northern Philippines and radio broadcaster Desiderio Camangyan died of gunshot wounds in separate attacks in a 24-hour period.