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MIDDAY WITH DAN RODRICKS

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Monday, February 23
Noon-1:00 pm EST
The Baltimore Examiner has ceased publication and the Sun's parent company has filed for bankruptcy. What will become of print journalism in the age of shrinking newspapers, and can technology save the printed news? We'll look at the future of journalism with Paul Gillin, who runs the Newspaper Death Watch blog, and John S. Carroll, former editor of the Sun and Los Angeles Times, and current advisor to ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom.

1:00-2:00 pm EST
Given the inevitability of crisis -- accidents, sudden trauma, illness -- we all wonder: who survives, and who doesn't?  Who bounces back, and who collapses?  Who keeps fighting, and who freezes in the life-or-death moment?  What does it take to overcome life's unavoidable challenges?  Ben Sherwood, author of The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life, offers some fascinating answers with some riveting stories.

 

 

 

Posted by Dan Rodricks at 7:23 AM | | Comments (2)
        

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I don't purport to know anything about the newspaper industry...

What I do know, is that the sunpaper of late seems to be malnourished. When I pick it up each day, it's lighter and lighter. My immediate thought is that the advertising isn't there and it's only getting worse.

Boscov's owed the sun big bucks = circuit city is gone and now ritz camer is bankrupt.

I rarely agree with what the columnists say in our paper but it's our paper. It's the last one and seeing it in my driveway each morning lets me know in a small way that things are ok. Picking up the gaunt skeleton of a sunday edition today is kind of scary.

Posted by: bryaninimonium | February 23, 2009 3:30 PM

Newpapers going out of business are posing a real danger to a tradition passed down for generations. The time honored tradition of reading the sports page and eating breakfast.

Marc

Posted by: Marc Gross | February 23, 2009 4:01 PM

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Jan. 8, 2009, marked 30 years for Dan Rodricks' column in The Baltimore Sun. Over three decades, Dan has won numerous regional and several national awards for his reporting and commentary -- in print and on the air. "I've had opportunity to write a column and work in both radio and television, never having to leave my adopted hometown of Baltimore to have those experiences," he says. "I consider myself very fortunate." In addition to writing a twice-weekly column for The Baltimore Sun and his Random Rodricks blog, Dan is currently the host of Midday, on WYPR-FM, National Public Radio in Baltimore. An artful story-teller and social critic, he has observed local, state and national political and cultural trends for three decades, and has a lot to say about almost everything.
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