The North Coast has a new TV news program. Back in spring the Journal caught wind that KRCR out of Redding was launching a news program to rival our local NBC affiliates at KIEM. The news program, which debuted yesterday at 6 p.m., apparently (although they have web content dating back to Sunday), will air […]
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We Want Short Shorts
Writers of ridiculously tiny prose, your time is running out. Friday — aka Oct. 31, aka Hallowe’en, aka (over there yonder) Nevada Day — is the last day to enter our flash fiction contest. It’s too late to snail mail those suckers to us, so e-mail them to fiction@northcoastjournal.com. Or, if you have to, drop them […]
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AT&T Blames ‘Fiber Issue” for Blackout
Scores of AT&T customers found themselves cut off from the rest of the digital world Monday afternoon, as the company experienced what it described cryptically as a “fiber issue.” The outage hit early Monday afternoon and lasted until the evening, leaving AT&T cell phone, Internet and U-verse customers without service. Some poor souls who rely […]
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A Star is Born and El Pulpo be thy Name
Humboldt County’s most famous flaming octopus has fully arrived on the national stage. El Pulpo Mecanico, the brainchild of Kinetic hall-of-famer Duane Flatmo, has for years been appearing at Burning Man, an arts festival in the Nevada desert, and has become a favorite of its cult-like following. But now, the fire spewing machine is going […]
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Huffman on Colbert!
UPDATE: The Huff’s Colbert segment indeed aired. Check it out right below. There’s a lot of talk about sharks. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive Huffman shared a bit about what ended up on the cutting room floor on his Facebook page: Now that the Colbert show […]
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Wait a Second… Sunset Magazine’s Dubious Geography
If you saw Tuesday’s edition of the Times-Standard, you couldn’t have missed the splashy, above-the-fold cover feature about Sunset Magazine‘s most recent issue featuring Humboldt County on it’s own cover. The hypish piece was “special to the Times-Standard,” and was essentially a story about the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors’ Bureau’s efforts to help the venerable […]
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A Patriot Among Us
The North Coast Journal’s own Media Maven, Marcy Burstiner, recently took home the Redwood Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union’s 2014 Patriot Award for her support of free speech rights and open government. Burstiner, who chairs the Humboldt State University Journalism Department and is the faculty advisor to the university’s newspaper, The Lumberjack, is […]
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New News News
The empty, dilapidated front room of the KAEF building at Sixth and E streets in Eureka will soon be bustling with news hustlers, if all goes according to plan, and Humboldt County’s only TV news program will have competition for the first time in almost 10 years. “We are looking forward to elevating the level […]
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Publisher: Court docs unsealed
Curiosity. It’s a critical trait for a reporter. In January Gary Lee Bullock was sitting in jail charged with the horrific crime of breaking into the rectory of St. Bernard’s Parish on New Year’s Day and murdering Father Eric Freed. Digging through court records, News Editor Thadeus Greenson learned that Bullock had been deemed “ineligible” […]
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And one more
We’ve learned that Ryan Burns is up for a prestigious Mirror Award — and a $5,000 prize if he wins — for a story he wrote while still with the Journal, “Ferndale Gothic.” The Mirror Awards are presented by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and recognize the best reporting by media on the […]
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Update: Journal Snags TEN Awards
Second Update, final results: Make that FIVE FIRSTS, one second (in the photo essay contest), plus the four blue ribbon honorable mentions. Update: The CNPA folks just shipped along four more awards announcements for the Journal. These ones are our Blue Ribbon Finalists, which means they were among the top four finalists in their categories. […]
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#Communityengagement #entrapment?
Two government agencies dove into the Twitterverse this past week, one looking to gather public input 140 characters at a time and the other seeking to increase traffic safety by doling out messages commonly read on handheld portable devices. First, the county of Humboldt, with a community meeting planned for Thursday to identify priorities as the Board […]