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Jonathan Landay was part of one of the greatest "if only" newspaper stories of the last 10 years - as in "if only more people had read it." You might have seen Landay in a PBS program about the reporting that was done and not done during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Bhavna Patel removes unwanted hair, but it's not done by waxing. Instead, she uses a 300-year-old practice known as threading.

The McClatchy Company is, once again, proving itself to be about the only mainstream large-ish media company in the United States that is worth reading.

We've known since February that Newsday.com was going to be put behind a paywall so its parent company Cablevision could see if any of that Wall Street Journal magic could rub off on them and actually get users to pay for online content.

In 2006, the McClatchy Co. bought the Akron Beacon Journal's parent company, Knight Ridder, folded its holdings into McClatchy and got rid of properties including the Beacon Journal.

They are massive, can't-miss shiny silver signs that for the past decade have held a dominant spot in the San Jose skyline and a special place in my heart.

I was sorry to have missed the Web 2.0 Summit this year. Over the weekend I watched a couple of the session videos.

Mike McQueen, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Louisiana and Mississippi, has died.

Restaurants are aware that Americans are becoming health-conscious. Photo courtesy Knight Ridder Tribune McDonald's is changing its ways to become a healthier choice for adults on the run.

If you excel at grammar and thrive on detailed work, copy editing is the career for you.

The New York Times' Bay Area edition is out and is, for the moment anyway, being reported in-house. The four prominent features are: A piece on the annual 2-percent property tax increase by local writer Scott James A profile of the new Oakland police chief, Anthony W. Batts by Jesse McKinley, the Times' San Francisco bureau chief, Jesse McKinley A ...

"How do you this?" the teabagger on his 9-12 parade asks when told there were Czars under Reagan.

NEW YORK Alison Young, president of Investigative Reporters and Editors -- who also writes the Watchdog column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- will leave the paper later this month to join USA Today.

AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA, ONA Wayne State University Press Great Lakes Books Series advisory board Council of Asian Pacific Americans advisory board More Information Joe Grimm is a visiting journalist at Michigan State University's School of Journalism where he teaches reporting and writing.

About a newspaper in Olympia, Washington, called The Olympian : Newspaper trademark bid challenged by U.S. Olympic Committee .

Newspapers have been in decline for some time, but journalism has been in the doldrums for much longer.

Le Monde diplomatique has been warning about an economic storm for 20 years, and that storm is now devastating the newspaper business.

Kelly Pautler has lunch with Darren Harrison on Tuesday at Club Soda. Paulter moved to the area four years ago and has seen a revival of downtown.

For "valorous and comprehensive coverage" of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the Sun Herald received journalism's highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service.

Northwest Indiana's newest residents are among its happiest, says a poll of region dwellers released Tuesday.