Corey Hutchins on journalism

Nice video interview with Corey Hutchins, political writer for the Free Times in Columbia and S.C. Press Association weekly journalist of the year.

Done by the University of S.C. SPJ Chapter.

The volume's a little low at the beginning. It gets a bit louder later.

(If you are easily offended, close your eyes briefly at 17:17)

Connecticut papers sold

With two Connecticut papers just 10 days from extinction, the former publisher of BostonNOW, Michael Schroeder, has stepped up to buy them and three weeklies from struggling Journal-Register.

BostonNOW, a freesheet, had a meteoric rise and just as quick a fall as its investors pulled out.

Wonder what Lucas Grindley will have to say about the new venture.

Meanwhile ....

The Tulsa World lays off 28, 26 of them from the newsroom.

Danish Newspapers

I know blog posts don't age like fine wine or good cheese. So I owe an apology to Jess Davis, one of my best students, for losing in my e-mail rabbit's hole her great post about Danish newspapers and the free paper wars while she was overseas last semester.

But it has surfaced again, and a lot of what she still writes about, at length, from watching it on the inside (of the country, that is) and with the insight of a European Newspapers in Transition class still makes for good reading and thinking.

So have at it.