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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

actorschecklist.com - Feb. 06 (Special Report) - In this award year the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has launched "Celebrate the Movies," a digital exhibition spotlighting iconic moments from 84 films. The exhibition appeared on digital billboards in Los Angeles, and on ABC's digital "SuperSign," an electronic landmark in New York's Times Square...

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A guide to Baltimore’s online news ecology

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Michael Byrne - Aug. 09 (Special Report) - For six months, Baltimore was fortunate enough to have an organization here dedicated solely to analyzing the city’s journalistic output, NewsTrust Baltimore (the local pilot project of the larger NewsTrust organization). It was a bit like Yelp crossed with the Columbia Journalism Review. The project ceased operations on July 31 (it was always intended as a six-month pilot), leaving behind a collection of reports, one of which is a final comprehensive analysis of sorts. It eventually concludes, “The local news scene is in a state of flux with more than a little creative chaos. But patterns are emerging. As news startups and impassioned individuals become more rigorous and as traditional news organizations become more open and responsive to the public, there is a growing opportunity for collaboration across the local journalistic community.“

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GiveCorps Launches to Spur Local Philanthropy: Give Local, Get Local

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Citybizlist Baltimore - By Brian Wolak - Jul. 06 (News) - BALTIMORE -- Looking to connect philanthropy, crowdfunding, and merchant discounts on a local level, GiveCorps launched this week to make donating to Baltimore-based nonprofit projects easy and rewarding.

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Mourning five martyred newsboys and the evening paper they worked for

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 05 (News) - Veteran Baltimore journalists raised their plastic cups of single-malt Scotch at Loudon Park Cemetery yesterday morning to five young colleagues who died in the line of duty. Just like the newspaper they all had worked for.

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The Glover Report: COUNTDOWN TO SEPTEMBER 13th: Why Redistricting Isn’t Being Mentioned in the News Thus Far

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BMORENEWS - By Doni Morton Glover - Jun. 30 (News) - Redistricting is underway. That’s where they change the districts around the State of Maryland to adjust to the population shifts. The thousands of vacant properties in Baltimore are evidence that we have lost population. People are continuing to leave urban centers across America, actually. Many of them are black.

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GiveCorps: For-Profit With a Heart

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Marta Randall - Jun. 23 (News) - With this month’s launch of GiveCorps, local philanthropy--like virtually every other aspect of life--finds its place on the internet. GiveCorps is a new kind of business: it helps donors find lo

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FREE SPEECH -- Blogger calls Councilwoman’s defamation suit a threat to free speech

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - Jun. 23 (News) - Baltimore blogger Adam Meister struck back at a Baltimore City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway today, filing motions to dismiss her multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit arguing it is a threat to free speech and a legal action deigned to discourage journalists from covering elected officials.

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Officials Stumble Through Twitter Potholes

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Afro - By Shernay Williams - Jun. 16 (News) - Less than a week after Maryland State Sen. Catherine Pugh officially announced her candidacy for mayor of Baltimore, a surprising tweet was sent from her twitter account while she was attending a fundraising event. “Mmm mmm good looking men here (@ Martin's West w/ 4 others),” it read.

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Wellness 2.0: Online Communities In the Face of Chronic Illness

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Katharine Schildt - Jun. 07 (News) - The rise of new media technologies such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and online support groups has created a unique space for people with chronic and life-threatening illnesses to share their health struggles, garnering support and camaraderie along the way. Online communities give people a place to let their guard down in a way that face-to-face contact doesn't provide.

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Mother’s Day story about lesbian couple creates controversy at Annapolis paper

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Poynter Institute - By Jim Romanesko - May. 19 (News) - On Mother’s Day, the Annapolis-based Capital ran a front-page story about a lesbian couple and their two kids. “Mama and Mommy” — as the story was headlined — was quickly criticized in the comments section. Capital editor and publisher Tom Marquardt addressed the controversy in a column — running the story on Mother’s Day was a mistake, he said — but his piece was spiked after some staffers objected.

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Hopkins Press Wraps Up $4.2M Renovation

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Julekha Dash - May. 17 (News) - The 114-year-old building that houses the Johns Hopkins University Press has a modern new look after a $4.1 million, two-year renovation.

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Print vs digital media discussed at UMBC

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Retriever Weekly - By Courtney Haupt - Apr. 26 (News) - The print newspaper has been around for over three hundred years. But this may soon change. With print media slowly disappearing, three members of the local media met with a group of UMBC students to discuss what they think will happen to the journalism industry in years to come.

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Better late than never at ICC as I-95 roars by

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Len Lazarick - Apr. 22 (News) - We waited a long-time for the Prince George's County executive to show at the event on I-95 at the Intercounty Connector. But the developers of Konterra had been waiting decades longer for an interchange that they finally got by swapping land with the state so it could finish the last leg of the ICC.

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Westboro Relishes Legal Fight as Md. Lawmakers Push Picketing Restrictions

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Capital News Service - By Andy Marso - Apr. 15 (News) - Maryland lawmakers introduced three state and federal bills in the past five weeks to strengthen restrictions on picketing funerals.

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Video: Four reporters discuss the just-finished Assembly session

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Len Lazarick - Apr. 14 (News Analysis) - Four reporters talk about the issues in the just finished General session: Len Lazarick of MarylandReporter.com, Kenny Burns of WNAV radio, John Wagner of The Washington Post and Lou Davis of Maryland Public Television.

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U-Md.'s Broder Remembered as "Towering Figure" in Journalism

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Capital News Service - By Andy Marso - Apr. 05 (News) - A Royal typewriter, a Rolodex bursting with dog-eared cards, two notepads displaying hastily-scrawled, barely-legible writing, a Chicago Cubs coffee mug and a meticulously folded American flag were laid out on a table at David Broder's memorial service.

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University condemns web anonymity

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Daniel Gross - Apr. 03 (News) - Following an online post that included the N-word in its title on anonymous posting website CollegeACB, members in the Towson University community took action out of offense and protested the website’s existence.

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Jen Royle's Year In the Life of Baltimore

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bmore Media - By Neal Shaffer - Mar. 29 (News) - On the one hand, here's an experienced reporter arriving in town to lend her talents to the local sports media. On the other, here's a Bostonian arriving by way of the Yankees to cover...the Orioles? Anyone enjoying even a passing familiarity with the Baltimore sports media landscape will understand that this is not the recipe for an easy transition.

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City Council, Baltileaks Open Up Board of Estimates Agendas

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Van Smith - Mar. 25 (News) - In mid-February, the web sites of the Baltimore City Council and BaltiLeaks (a mysterious outfit that “seeks to obtain and publish information of legitimate public value to the citizens of Baltimore,” its site explains) stepped in to attempt to provide online access to the BOE archives. With each passing week since, both sites have tried to add new agendas and build a growing online reference library about how the city spends money.

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The Nose Talks NewsTrust, New Media, and Local Journalism

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - Mar. 23 (News) - The Nose found its shabby self down at the Harbor East tea bar Teavolve March 15, filling up on cheese cubes and hummus-schmeared pita triangles and balancing a beer, all while actually trying to think. We were there to chat up the social media types behind the NewsTrust Baltimore project–which we’ll get to in a bit–but first we had to do a little navel-gazing.

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NO(-)VOTE — Same-sex marriage legislation dies in Maryland

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Investigative Voice - By Stephen Janis, Alan Z. Forman - Mar. 12 (News Analysis) - The failure of Maryland’s landmark same-sex marriage bill this past week was more than just a legislative miscalculation: It was a clear example of how interpersonal political gamesmanship can sometimes fall short when complex issues are at stake.As much as same-sex union seems to make legal sense, it's one of those hybrid issues that lives on the often treacherous boundary between the secular and the spiritual.Without parsing the issue on the merits of morality, theology, civil rights or any of the other obvious perspectives, what really happened in Annapolis this week is that the process of legislation broke down because a sense of single-mindedness pervaded an issue that should have been given more time to percolate. Sure, opponents needed additional time to dissuade vulnerable delegates. But haste made waste the ability of the state's lower house to do what it should do best, deliberate.Nothing embodies this more than blame, now misplaced, on State Del. Jill P. Carter (D-41st). It might be self-serving of Investigative Voice to point this out, since we wrote the story, but Carter’s misgivings about the vote count and the bill's fate on the House of Delegates floor proved to be more than right, it was dead-on.The fact that Carter took the heat from her colleagues and the media for delaying the bill's passage out of committee is a perfect example of how political myopia can sometimes be more self-destructive than the ill it seeks to remedy.

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Wages frozen at Baltimore Sun for two years

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Mar. 11 (News) - Members of the Baltimore Sun’s Newspaper Guild have agreed to a two-year wage freeze and the end of pension benefits for incoming hires in return for a higher company contribution to their 401(k) retirement plans.

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Expanding on pornography industry

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Towerlight - By Shelby Hillers - Mar. 10 (News) - With the rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy as high as they are, the women’s studies department and the Center for Student Diversity are hosting Sexfest 2011 in hopes of informing students of their choices when it comes to sex.

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Simon on the arrest of “Snoop” of The Wire, as part of massive drug raid

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Mar. 10 (News) - With embedded members of the media in tow, Baltimore Police and agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency this morning conducted a massive raid on an East Baltimore-based drug organization, arresting 60 people, including Felicia “Snoop” Pierson, of the HBO series, “The Wire.”

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Silent No More

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

City Paper - By Andrea Appleton - Mar. 08 (News) - Word of molestation in the Orthodox Jewish community has been slow to emerge, often because its members have had a tendency to keep such scandal under wraps. But, increasingly, publications such as New York City’s Jewish Week have begun to explore the topic, while victims have started going to the police. In Baltimore, the dubious privilege of shining a light on the subject has fallen to Phil Jacobs, editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times.

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