Is this a good idea or bad? Should Twitter have sold off to Facebook? This story broke this morning from Kara Swisher at BoomTown. Her title is priceless: When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled Kara went on to discuss the pros and cons of the takeover. First offer vice wait for something better. I wonder about Twitter& [...]

Twice in one day I’ve heard about the pending layoffs and cut backs at the Virginian-Pilot, Hampton Road’s primary print media source. I had lunch today with a former employee. He mentioned the pending doom. Then this evening, I get an email from another former writer for The Pilot, John-Henry Doucette. He wrote a blog entry discussing [...]

UPDATE: Ms. George and Ms. Cox-Wynn, I would like to bring to your attention this article.  I will quote a key point below.  My emphasis added: 42 percent of responding newspapers have added “early teams” to cover breaking news in the morning, and many are timing their deadlines to make sure there’s fresh content at peak traffic tim [...]