The news is spreading here in New Orleans and across the journalism world: the fabled Times-Picayune, as we all know it, may cease to exist. Visitors tour Hurricane Katrina front pages from The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans and the Sun Herald of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, as part of the 'Covering Katrina' exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC. (Image credit: AFP via @daylife) Writing in The New York Times, David Carr gave details in today’s edition of what seems to have been a closely guarded secret. According to his sources, Newhouse Newspapers, a division of Advance Publications, the Times-Pic’s owner, plans to discontinue the daily paper and embrace the model that it used in Ann Arbor, Mich. That means relying heavily on the ... Continue reading →

Representatives of the Korean, Filipino, Chinese and Japanese communities attended the meeting at a Baptist church in Southeast Washington. “Korean stores are filthy,” a woman could be heard saying at the meeting, part of which was closed to reporters. The woman later identified herself as Geraldine Hall. “Inside and out, they are filthy,” she told reporters, referring to Korean-owned businesses, as she left the meeting. At a press conference, Barry and several Asian American leaders said the dialogue is an important step toward defusing long-standing tension between blacks and Asians. Asked about the underlying sources of the conflict, Barry said the United States “has had racial tensions since was it founded.”“The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell,” Barry said, invoking ... Continue reading →