Editor & Publisher has been a list of presidential endorsements. I’ve mapped them, looking for geographic trends. For the papers that have endorsed either Barack Obama or John McCain, I have also mapped their 2004 and 2000 endorsements. It’s interesting to see the colors change — or if they do. E&P recently reported that Republicans [...]

Folks have created some fun election-related Web sites: Fold US Candidate: All of your favorite political characters as finger puppets Palin as President: Click around, see what you can find. Something new is added every day until the election. Yes We Carve: Carve a Barack o’ lantern, win an iPod. (The Associated Press has pumpkin [...]

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain met for their third and final debate on Wednesday night at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. CNN has the transcript; I took what was said by each candidate and, using

Three weeks to Election Day, and several newspapers are announcing who they are endorsing. Editor & Publisher has a running list. Lists are nice, but I wanted to see if there were geographic trends. This map will be updated as more papers endorse either Democrat Barack Obama (blue markers) or Republican John McCain (red markers).

Two weeks ago, the Post-Dispatch laid off 20 people, including reporters Patrick O’Connell and Christine Byers, copy editor Colleen Schrappen and designer Elizabeth Baird. Under the guild contract, employees with more seniority could volunteer to be laid off, which is what has happened. O’Connell, Byers, Schrappen and Baird return to work today. In the next [...]