William M. Hartnett

>Mexico Edition Of ‘Miami Herald’ Folding Friday (E&P)
Jesus H. McMassiverevenuedrain! The Miami Herald had a Mexico City edition? I’m always finding out about interesting stuff immediately after it/they close, die or otherwise cease to exist. Here’s the note to Mexico Edition readers announcing the move. Any other odd newspaper editions I don’t know about?

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Steve Yelvington poses an interesting question: Why not kill the editorial page? Not the editorial discussion itself, of course. He literally means the editorial page, the dead tree.
The printed editorial page has always been low on my daily print reading list, and I honestly don’t get to it all that often these days. I’ve never [...]

Just a bit of housekeeping: I finally finished posting some stories and projects done during the past seven years at my day job. You can find all of my greatest hits in the work category. More specific work-related categories include computer-assisted reporting, single stories, features, projects, Mapping the Boom and Florida Home.
If this is your [...]

Neil Henry’s call “for corporations such as Google to accept more responsibility for the future of American journalism” was a popular link off Romenesko yesterday. Today we get a letter that says Henry didn’t go far enough.
I’m guessing Romenesko’s links are the sole source of journalism commentary, particularly that of the future of the [...]

>Colleges keep turning out optimistic print journalists despite the newspaper industry crunch (Ventura County Star)
(Via Romenesko)
Preface: I’m a bit confused about why a newspaper, as opposed to a trade journal, would write a 2,500-word story about how journalism students feel about their prospects in the newspaper industry. Seriously, do readers care even half as [...]

Not that they have all that much to say. They simply note that, no, you weren’t imagining things, there really were reporting delays last week, but that no data were lost and all reports should now be fully updated. Also, they’re sorry for the inconvenience and the late notification, and you’re asked to “please continue [...]

>China Sentences Former Drug Regulator to Death (NYT)
“The former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death today after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media.”
I’m not saying whether I think this is right or wrong, I’m just saying this: Whoa.

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>Protests in Andes as Fifa bans international games over 2,500m (The Guardian)
>Anger Echoes in South America After FIFA Bans Games at Altitude (AP via NYT)
FIFA bans international soccer matches in venues more than 8,200 feet above sea level, citing “concern for players’ health and home-field advantage of high-altitude teams over their visiting lowland rivals.” The [...]

My wife and I swung by downtown Sarasota for the first time in a few years while driving down Florida’s west coast this weekend, and now I have a major case of newspaper office envy.
The Herald-Tribune’s still-pretty-new building looks great from the street. Didn’t see the inside, of course, but I’m sure it’s much better [...]

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