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Entries Tagged as 'Palm Beach Post'

Charles Keefer rides with new iPad: review

May 13th · No Comments · Palm Beach Post

I promised to share Chuck Keefer’s take on his iPad. Here’s one of the original Macintosh good guys, from his Charles Keefer Riding blog.

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How ’bout dem Pathfinders

May 13th · No Comments · Palm Beach Post

I’ve said it here before: The Pathfinder High School Scholarship Awards is one of the best things The Palm Beach Post does. Once again this year, it was a joy to meet so many inspiring students, to serve as a Literature category judge, and to present the honors last night on behalf of my fellow judges, Dr. […]

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CeeBee’s Ode to CeeKay the MacMan

March 18th · No Comments · Palm Beach Post

I’m not too surprised about the kind words my friend Chuck Keefer had for me at his Charles Keefer Riding blog. Mainly because I could have said the same of him — and dozens more of our former Palm Beach Post colleagues. That speaks volumes about the folks with whom we shared our craft — […]

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Promoting outstanding high school Pathfinders

March 11th · No Comments · Palm Beach Post

Am heading down to serve as a Literature category judge for the 27th annual Pathfinder High School Scholarship Awards. The program honors outstanding Palm Beach and Martin County seniors. It’s one of the best things that The Palm Beach Post, one of my former newspapers, does. I only regret that due to a previous obligation […]

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Hear, hear…Guardian’s Rusbridger on pay walls: ‘New media’ disappeared. They’re just media now

January 26th · No Comments · ONO, Organization of News Ombudsmen, Palm Beach Post, The Guardian, The New York Times

“In print, the Guardian is, even now, the ninth or 10th biggest paper in Britain. On the web it is, by most measurements, the second best-read English-language newspaper in the world. If the New York Times really does start charging for access, the Guardian may become the newspaper with the largest web English-speaking readership in […]

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News Ombudsmen, newspapers, news journalism declining in U.S. — even while surging abroad

July 12th · No Comments · ONO, Organization of News Ombudsmen, Palm Beach Arts Paper, Palm Beach Post, South Florida Times, Stockholm, Sweden, The Coastal Star, The New York Times, Washington Post

From our recent Washington, D.C. conference of the world’s news ombudsmen, I came away thinking that we members of the international Organization of News Ombudsmen don’t have The Answer for newspapers either. At least, not here in the USA. Our group’s president, Stephen Pritchard, reported that since last year’s meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, U.S. newspapers […]

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Organization of News Ombudsmen flashback: “All the news that’s fit to blog?”

July 6th · No Comments · ONO, Organization of News Ombudsmen, Palm Beach Post, Washington Post

ìI hardly have time to go to the bathroom,î said then-Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell. ìStart a blog?î Before we survey the recent Washington, D.C. meeting of the world’s news ombudsmen, indulge me a look back at our meetings last year in Stockholm and two years ago at Harvard. Amid all the breaking changes at […]

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Future of the newspaper? The classy Coastal Star and the Palm Beach Arts Paper

July 1st · No Comments · Barack Obama, Briny Breezes, HOM, I21, InterFaith21.com, Jerry Lower, Mary Kate Leming, Michelle Obama, Palm Beach Arts Paper, Palm Beach Post, The Coastal Star, Uncategorized

For those who may have missed it in a different context over at InterFaith21.com I had posted introductions to The Coastal Star newspaper and the Palm Beach Arts Paper. In print and online, both publications are packed with contributions by freelance colleagues such as yours truly who recently were with The Palm Beach Post or […]

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