On Friday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel laid off more than 50 newsroom employees, including three Web producers. The Daily Pulp reports that online producers Jack Brennan and Ray Lynch volunteered to be laid off; Brian Wacker did not. On Thursday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel added a Web job to the Tribune job board: Title: Online [...]

In case you missed it, Lee Enterprises — parent company of my employer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more than 50 other daily papers — released its third-quarter earnings on Thursday. The news that made headlines: Profits were down by a whopping 87.4 percent. Net income was $2.8 million, compared to $22.5 million for the [...]

EveryBlock, the hyper-local news mapping site brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, has teamed up with the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. The Tribune launched Tuesday; the Sun-Times launched today. Both papers publish a map and list of their local news stories from the past 48 hours, then link to those stories. Both papers are having iframe [...]

Want to know what journalists are talking about? Head over to journalism.me. Kiyoshi Martinez, the guy who started Angry Journalist and is now the communications and public affairs specialist for the Illinois Senate Republican Caucus, has is aggregating journalists who blog about journalism. Martinez explains how he did it, and why. It’s a very smart [...]

One-way streets often complicate driving directions (especially in St. Louis). So using Google Maps to get walking directions is often not practical. Now when you search for directions, and the distance is 6 miles or less, you’ll see a link for “walking” directions. (Where available, there’s also a link for public transportation.) For example, drive [...]