Online legal issues links
I'm doing a Webinar today on online legal issues, another in a series E.W. Scripps is doing with journalism professors at Hampton University using Skype and DimDim. These are some interesting conversations.I've put together a set of links for them and I thought others might find the list useful. An earlier set of links dealt with ethics. Associated Press Seeks More Control of Content on Web - NYTimes.com

A day golf's Mike Strantz would have enjoyed
I don't play golf and I never met golf course designer Mike Strantz, but I think he would have ha

Jugtown vase
At the Celebration of Seagrove Potters on Friday night, I picked up this vase made by Travis Owens of Jugtown Pottery. Jugtown was recently featured on a PBS Craft in America show and Travis Owens is in that segment.The

From gatekeeper to "sense-maker"
Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, discusses the future of journalism. The gatekeeper role may be gone, but there are other roles for the Press to play, like "sense-maker." (via Reportr.net)

Training and focusing on content quality even in tight times
E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne is getting some kudos for focusing on editorial quality and training even as the economics of the media business have forced painful cutbacks.A large training program focused on storytelling has launched amid the media industry recession for the company's 10 TV stations."It's very deep and broad training in storytelling," Boehne told the