It’s finally here! The video for “Copy Editor’s Lament (The Layoff Song)” by my friend and colleague Christopher Ave. You have to see it. You can also buy the song on iTunes. So far, the 2009 newspaper layoff total stands at 14,571+ jobs.

On his Wednesday show, CNN host Lou Dobbs announced he was leaving the network. On Thursday, CNN announced John King would take over the time slot early next year. Swapping King for Dobbs does little to change the demographics of the prime-time hosts of the three largest cable news networks, CNN, Fox and MSNBC. Dobbs, [...]

I attended my first BarCamp over the weekend, which was a ton of fun. It was a fairly small group, but I got to meet some brilliant and interesting people. So, nine things you missed at BarCamp STL: 1. Arch Reactor, a hackerspace right here in St. Louis. 2. Google Wave

Jeremy Rue, multimedia training instructor for the University of California-Berkeley graduate school of journalism, posted a great slideshow on social networking for journalists. News21 Social Networking View more documents from Knight Digital Media Center (Berkeley).

(All times central. For another look at what happened, try the Google news timeline view.) 1:30 p.m. A gunman opens fire on soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. 2:10 p.m. MSNBC posts a story and sends a breaking news alert about the shooting. CNN did the same at 2:30 p.m. Original reports said seven people were [...]