‘What is a short story?’ Jon Bauer’s Sleepers Almanac and app launch speech

Last night, author Jon Bauer (Rocks in the Belly, Scribe) launched the sixth Sleepers Almanac and the new Sleepers literary app at the Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Melbourne. I thought his speech was wonderful, so with Jon’s kind permission, here it is for you all to read: Have you ever had that moment on a dance [...]

AP: Yeah, we'd better cite pajama-wearing bloggers, too

The Associated Press didn't need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play "reporter," thank you very much. Now it knows better. At the AP's 2009 annual meeting, Chairman Dean Singleton reminded his audience ( read the speech ) that the AP and its members "are the source of most of the news content being created in ...

Four questions about the pope's trip to the UK

Now that September has arrived, news agencies are beginning to focus in earnest on Pope Benedict XVI's Sept. 16-19 trip to the United Kingdom.

5 Best Thursday Columns

Nicholas Kristof on Reforming Industrial Agriculture The latest outbreak of salmonella in eggs reminded The New York Times writer of spending time during his youth tending a chicken flock on his family's farm. While the free-range chickens at the small farm are in no way a model for the future of agriculture, they do underscore the problems with having cages of tightly bunched birds that ...

Letters to the Editor 9/3

Why hate for Beck? I’m a little puzzled as to why The Tribune finds it necessary to allow columnists, cartoonists and others to harm the reputation of a TV personality known to all of us as Glenn Beck.