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New Year News

Shira Kavon of CNN reported on NewsLib that the Virginian-Pilot‘s Jakon Hays received a research credit on “the breaking story about incoming Commander Owen Honors of the USS Enterprise, whose suggestive humorous videos, which included anti-gay slurs, implied lewdness, and … Continue reading

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Maudie Lawson, 1955-2010

Maudie A. Lawson, news librarian at the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, has passed away from colon cancer at the age of 55. She once worked as an obituary writer, and took the unique opportunity to write her own obit. She asked … Continue reading

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Library Profile – Sandi Fox

Tell us about where you work. Do you work mostly on a team? Solo? What are your deadlines like?I am the Research Librarian for The PBS NewsHour, a national television and digital/online/internet news and analysis program broadcast over many PBS … Continue reading

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Toronto Star librarian wins award

Toronto Star librarian Peggy Mackenzie won an Online Journalism Award for best online video journalism (large site) for her work with Star colleagues on William Kamkwamba, a Malawian man who used junkyard finds to harness the wind for energy. The … Continue reading

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Extra Aside Bar — From the editor

The immediacy of a blog makes the subject of this post seem a little outdated, but we’d normally be addressing the SLA conference in New Orleans in the Summer issue and I didn’t want it to go unmentioned. My SLA … Continue reading

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Aside Bar — From the Editor

Welcome to the next incarnation of News Library News! With the troubles in our industry, the News Division has been shrinking, and with it our budget. As a result, we cannot afford to publish News Library News, even as a … Continue reading

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