The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many organizations that publish only on the Internet, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced today. The Board has decided to allow entries made up entirely of online content to be submitted in all 14 Pulitzer journalism […]

Chicago-based Tribune Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today.

The publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and Los Angeles Times cited a $13 billion debt load and a “perfect storm” of declining advertising revenue in a worsening economy, which led to today’s filing.

The company hopes to keep its newspapers and television and radio stations in operation while restructuring goes on.

Who’s next?

Want a safe job in journalism? Work in television. The Committee To Protect Journalists reports that, for the first time, more online journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium. In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, the Committee found that 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, […]

Open Air Cinema has announced the availability of its new 16ft x 9ft Open Air Home Screen, a giant inflatable movie screen. Open Air Cinema sells the 16-foot screen for $999. The company offers two other sizes of its inflatable movie screens for home use. The 12ft x 7ft version is priced at $599 and […]

Pandora CEO Tim Westergren reports that the social music service has reached the milestone of 2 million iPhone users: At 10:04am this morning we hit 2,000,000 registered iPhone Pandora users! We’re hearing all sorts of wonderful feedback from listeners who are using it on their commute, jogging with it, plugging it into home audio systems…you […]

Apple has announced the top iPhone apps of 2008 (App Store link).  Here are the top iPhone apps for social networking: Top Paid Social Networking: MobileChat BeejiveIM Quip Rooms – Your Mobile Chat Client Twitterrific Premium Flutter Twittelator Pro mBoxMail Secrets hiCard – Suite Top Free Social Networking: Facebook AIM Myspace Mobile IM+ Lite Loopt […]

Last week, the UK Podcasters Association appointed Neil Fairbrother (of Pod3.tv) their new chairman. Previously the position was held by Dean Whitbread, one of the founders of the organization. I caught up with Dean recently, and asked him to give me a rundown of the things he and the UKPA worked on, fought against, and/or […]

Joost has released a new app (App Store link) that brings the social video site to the iPhone.  The app lets you find/watch videos in several ways: Browsing by category Select “most popular” videos Watch our favorites  Search for a specific video While the idea behind this is great, the app only works on WiFi […]

Susan Mernit has written an interesting post about a new service for Twitter users, Mr Tweet: Mr. Tweet is great.  Not only did I learn that I had some highly interesting followers I needed to follow back, I got an analysis and report of the influencers Mr. Tweet recommended I follow–not only their names, web sites and […]

The American Veterinary Medical Association has launched “Chew On This,” a podcast about food safety and protecting the [U.S.] food supply. Dr. James Cook, AVMA President, says, “We’re going to explore and investigate many of today’s topics surrounding food – where it comes from, how it gets to our tables and why it’s important to […]