By Lydia Fiser
Come out to Weimer 3032 (the journalism building on UF’s campus) at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Fine Print paired up with Society of Professional Journalists and the College of Journalism and Communications to bring together a group of journalists who all covered the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath. Here are the panelists: Rich Hirsch [...]
By Henry Taksier
For 35 years, Goerings Book Store has struggled to survive in Gainesville’s increasingly corporate market. Located on 1717 NW First Ave., behind midtown, it was a place for students, professors and Gainesville residents to meet, talk about literature and browse titles by local authors. In a few weeks, its shelves will be empty. By March, even the shelves will be gone, and its doors will close permanently.
By Jessica Newman
This video performance from a Canadian newspaper staff is more quirky than pointed. The quartet works for The Globe and Mail, a weekly national newspaper printed in Toronto. Like print media everywhere, they’re struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of the endless possibilities of the Internet. In the video, they touch [...]
By Jessica Newman
Today, Nov. 9, marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event many deem to be the ultimate triumph of democracy, like Ross Douthat of the New York Times. In fact, media outlets all over the world celebrated the anniversary today as an event that brought “democracy” to the Eastern bloc. [...]
By Jessica Newman
It’s no secret that the journalism we know today is a lot different from the journalism we knew 5 years ago. Since its creation, media has always been in a constant state of flux, from handwritten pamphlets to the printing press to radio to television to the Web. So here I am, embracing the latest [...]
By Jessica Newman
Crisis is also an opportunity for creativity and for the emergence of new models. -KVH Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine that’s been around since 1865. The Nation is based on a for-profit model, but is still largely reader-supported and relies little on advertising sales. Like [...]
By Travis Pillow
During its printing run of a single school year (’68-’69), this alternative weekly was the mouthpiece of UF’s so-called radical students, who were dissatisfied with what they saw as the Alligator’s toothless and irrelevant coverage of campus events. Many members of its staff had worked at the Alligator (Steve Hull, one of University Report’s ringleaders, [...]
