Small Initiatives

I just landed in Lisbon, Portugal, and I will be here all this week. I am here with INNOVATION’s Juan Caño, and on Tuesday night Marta Botero will join us. Lisbon is now one the most...

nypost.com When an Israeli court said Israeli media couldn't cover an investigation of Ehud Olmert, the NY Post broke the ice. In Israel, police are investigating Prime Minister Ehud...

You saw yesterday brilliant front pages of the new Diario de Noticias redesigned by INNOVATION. The work of Guillermo Nagore in partnership with Rodrigo Buldrini made possible the new look. Now...

Byteflow Blog Engine. This looks like the most full-featured of the Django blog engines by a pretty big margin, including OpenID client and server support. A product of the growing Russian/Ukrainian...

Newsday It could be announced as early as Monday. "Cablevision appears to have won" with its $650 million bid, says one source. Another says it's unclear whether New York Daily News owner Mort...

Newsday Rupert Murdoch's News Corp says it's unable to justify outbidding Cablevision's $650 million offer from an economic perspective. "News Corp's decision to walk away from Newsday...

Ed Cone tells a story of an airline’s exquisite stupidity. He shows a picture of the jammed seats behind his jammed row 11 and the empty seats ahead and says: What’s going on? An industry...

The more I think about the issue of redundant news coverage on the web, the more I’m both perplexed and fascinated. Read the following on Facebook’s announcement of Facebook Connect...

A few months ago, INNOVATION’s Guillermo Nagore redesigned the leading newspaper of Madeira. And we have very good news. The design is better than ever. The new Art Director, Rodrigo Buldrini,...

Romenesko Letters The authors of a Slate piece titled "Stealth Marketers" wondered if doctors were shilling for drug companies on an episode of The Infinite Mind called "Prozac Nation: Revisited" on...

VanityFair.com Buzz Bissinger continues to discuss his tirade on Bob Costas' show last week, and how he feels about it now. "My apology is for the manner in which I expressed myself. I still...

> Only NYT, LAT and a few others are getting info from Myanmar (LAT) > Miami Herald's Merzer takes buyout; joined the paper in '79 (BPBNT) > Sacramento Bee business editor Anderson named...

Well, you’d never see this as a promotion from an American newspaper. I just caught this tweet from the Guardian’s Comment is free, in full: “We can’t keep fucking flying...

Romenesko Misc. Loretta Tofani receives the award for her series on unsafe working conditions in China. The judges said Tofani's four-part series "is a tribute to her persistence, resourcefulness,...

USA Today Federal appeals court judges questioned Friday whether former Army scientist Steve Hatfill really needs the names of Toni Locy's sources since his attorneys have asked for a trial date...

I saw the future last week. The NewsTools 2008 unconference drew about 150 people who are thinking about, working on, or living the future of news and journalism. Much of NewsTools, the latest...

McGuire on Media Yes, some are dying, says former Star Tribune editor Tim McGuire, and "the next several months will likely bring several to the brink of death and some might die. At the same time...

St. Petersburg Times Floridian, the daily features section, will publish just on Sundays, while the business section will merge with the B section metro news in a new section. The fact that the St....

TV Newser Fox News production assistant Jennifer Locke told John McCain at last night's Time 100 party that "I voted for you in the primary, you're going to win." Locke, whose remark was recorded...

NYTimes.com Tim Bearden, who graduates from college next year, throws that question to New York Times AME Susan Edgerley. "Yes, the Internet is where the industry is going, and no, I don't think...