Kevin Cobb, a brilliant page designer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (and blogger for Watch This Now), won the SFSS’s designer of the year Reader’s Choice Page Design of the Year! I had the honor of working with Kevin back at The Times of Northwest Indiana, where he regularly abused staplers, kept us in stitches, [...]

Feb. 6: Two police officers and three city officials were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Kirkwood, Mo., City Council meeting. The man was killed by police officers. Feb. 8: A woman shot two fellow students to death before committing suicide at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. Feb. 11: A 17-year-old is [...]

I am fascinated by Twitter; I can’t explain why. I was a little surprised by some of the stats in today’s New York Times story about Twitter: “Nearly 1.2 million users visited Twitter in December, a 223 percent increase over the same month the previous year, according to comScore Inc.” And Hitwise, which measures site [...]

I’m at least partially responsible for the Post-Dispatch’s newest blog, featuring the Weatherbird. Today is the Bird’s 107th birthday. For the uninitiated, the Weatherbird is unique to the Post-Dispatch. It’s not only been on the front page for 107 years, it’s also the oldest continuously running daily cartoon in the country.

The Palm Beach Post is reorganizing its newsroom. From the memo sent to PBP staff: Metro will become known as the Breaking News Department. It will be run by Paul Blythe, the new Breaking News Editor. Reporters and editors in the former metro department will no longer have filing to the print newspaper as their [...]