Word: papering
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...pieces of paper may have recently jeopardized the lives of 2.75 million refugees. Earlier this month, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, citing crimes against humanity and war crimes. As pundits and scholars alike have warned, al-Bashir’s retaliation was brutal. He immediately shut down 13 relief agencies, giving no explanation other than allegations that the ICC and these NGOs were conspiring against...
...final print edition of the 146-year-old newspaper landed on porches and stoops throughout Seattle on Tuesday morning, bearing the banner headline "P-I Presses Fall Silent." A special section, which included 20 pages of history, timelines, reflections and a photo of the paper's final stewards, was titled, "You've Meant the World...
...world has changed for print media. On Jan. 9, the Hearst Corp. announced that the financially strapped paper was for sale. If no buyer could be found within 60 days, the paper would be forced to close its doors or produce a Web-only version with a fraction of its staff. The P-I's demise is a sign of the times, coming in the wake of the Feb. 27 closure of Denver's Rocky Mountain News weeks short of its 150th anniversary, while the San Francisco Chronicle, another Hearst paper, has been put on notice that its days...
...Town?" Attendees were encouraged to Twitter throughout the meetings, where the conversation was sprinkled with emerging-media jargon about micropayments, super-local news, journalism-as-conversation and the demise of the media as gatekeeper. But only about 40 of the 170 people currently employed by the city's oldest paper will be joining the brave new world at its Web-only iteration, Seattlepi.com, beginning on March...
...TrueWest.info and already has 10 people onboard. His wife, Seattle-based freelance journalist Sally Deneen, has been working with several P-I reporters to develop the Seattle Post Globe, a site, she says, that will be devoted to keeping alive what she calls the scrappy, underdog spirit of the paper, either as a cooperative or a nonprofit. Says Deneen: "It just seems, to some of us, at least, that ad-based journalism is sending journalism down the wrong road." Also trying to move into the space created by the demise of the P-I is SeattleCourant.com, launched by University...