Morning News 4.25.05

News about pubs, ethics and changes, today.
Check out the new and improved Billboard.
Also, check out new and improved paperbacks, designed especially for baby-boomers who don’t think it’s ‘cool’ to read books with a magnifying glass.
Nerve.com: the future of magazine publishing?
David Shaw at Media Matters: Lay off Mitch Albom.
You don’t have to be a reporter to fabricate details: you can be a regular old letter-writer and pull it off, too.
The Drudge Report is 10, which is like 10,000 years old in Internet years.
Writers ask Oprah for help because apparently everyone is lost without her guidance.
Finally, two reporters, ostensibly covering a story about a student dying from alcohol poisoning, get drunk while reporting on the game of beer pong. So while your editors may not have been explicit about getting drunk on the job, it’s mostly looked down upon.

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