The AnnArborChronicle.com has been tweaking its brand, as of late. The site, described by Publisher Mary Morgan as a chronicler of local government, has been doing more than just repeating what happened at meetings. The site has been posting original reporting (including a recent tip that former Second Ward Council member Jane Lumm pulled nominating [...]
JournalismJobs.com is the place to go for a look into who’s hiring in the news biz. It was there that I saw AnnArbor.com’s job opening for a higher education reporter to replace David Jesse. Jesse, an award-winner, skipped out on AnnArbor.com and its self-proclaimed stunning growth in readership and page views, but not pay and [...]
Some can remember the headline: “Dewey Beats Truman.” Then, there were two announcements that political writer and novelist Mark Twain had died. The second notice, published in the New York Times, prompted Twain to quip, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” As it turns out newspapers across Michigan, including AnnArbor.com, have done the [...]
Well, Snyder and Skubick won’t think you’re stupid, exactly. Just dumb. Skubick (pictured left), who most recently prognosticated that the recall effort against Governor Snyder was “dead as a door nail” just a few days before the Michigan Education Association joined in the battle, recently interviewed Snyder on the hot button subject of, yep, political [...]
by Patricia Lesko You may notice that there have been some changes to A2Politico, including to the site’s logo. We’ve added “Smart, fearless, local journalism” to the tagline. This is unabashed homage to MoJo, the lefty magazine that has provided investigative journalism through a non-profit model since before it was trendy to deliver accountability journalism [...]
The Left has been screaming since Rick Snyder presented his budget. Then, when Snyder proposed deep cuts to education to “reinvent” Michigan’s economy, Independents started in on the Governor’s “vision for Michigan.” Just a few days ago, one of the most well-respected and influential political thinkers on the Right, Dr. Norman Ornstein, called Michigan’s Governor [...]
The FCC recently came out with an extensive report concerning the state of American media. In the Executive Summary, FCC researchers write: Yet, in part because of the digital revolution, serious problems have arisen, as well. Most significant among them: in many communities, we now face a shortage of local, professional, accountability reporting. This is likely to [...]
On June 11, 2009, A2Politico was launched. To read the very first entry, click here. Don’t forget to vote in the poll. I launched the site, because I wanted to see if other people were as interested in local politics as I am. Since September of 2009, A2Politico’s coverage of local news and politics has been [...]
A2P Notes: Just after AnnArbor.com was launched, essayist Jack Lessenberry wrote in the Metro Times: Now I like to think of myself as a fairly sophisticated newspaper critic. I’ve worked for a lot of them, have had bylines in The Washington Post and New York Times, am a newspaper ombudsman, have been on the graduate faculty at [...]
I don’t read newspaper sports writing very often. It’s a little too breathy and panting for my tastes, usually. Pete Bigelow’s writing could be an exception. Last week, Pete Bigelow gave his notice at AnnArbor.com. He’s a sports writer, and when he wrote a well-crafted column it was sports writing that was as thought-provoking and [...]
