He won’t be moving into his new job until sometime in the new year, but we’re happy to let you know that Thadeus Greenson will be taking over as the North Coast Journal‘s news editor. There’s a lot work to do — he’ll have help from Arts and Features Editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (above). They’ll […]
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New Contest: Comment Poetics
You’ve already heard about our 99 words or fewer Flash Fiction Contest (deadline April 10). We’ve decided to add a new contest, Comment Poetics with a shorter deadline, in fact it’s today only. Among the entrants so far: Repeat Journal commenter and big fan PHARM, who always begins with a compliment and seems to favor repetition: Very […]
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Transitions: Journal Announces (Another) New Editor
From Publisher Judy Hodgson: Today Carrie Peyton Dahlberg takes over as editor of the North Coast Journal. I’ll tell you a little more about Carrie below. But first I’d like to acknowledge and thank the entire Journal team for weathering the past several months of transition. In particular, I’d like to single out acting editor Ryan Burns and […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Douglas OUT At Journal
After one day on the job, North Coast Journal Editor and International Media Relations Chief Humboldt Bureau Investigative Senior Hybrid Editor Journalist in Chief Charles Douglas was terminated today, the latest victim of what one local media outlet referred to as “Judge Judy’s Journalist Meat Grinder.” The Chuck D regime got off to a rocky […]
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Burns Named Acting Editor
Veteran staff writer Ryan Burns has been named acting editor of the North Coast Journal as of Wednesday, March 23. Burns has been with the Journal since 2008 and has won numerous writing awards for the paper. Tom Abate, who served as editor for the past six weeks, is no longer with the company. His […]
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Oops: Tribal Seas Story Suffers Editorial Omission
Readers of today’s North Coast Journal (cover “Species Rising,” March 3) will be puzzled by the first paragraph of an otherwise excellent story by Ryan Burns (“Tribal Seas”) that was rendered incomprehensible when an editing error removed 17 words. Here is the full text of the lede to this excellent summary of an important initiative […]
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Tom Abate Joins NCJ Staff; New Editor is SF Chron Alum
EUREKA, Calif. – The North Coast Journal has tapped veteran San Francisco Chronicle reporter Tom Abate to lead an ambitious expansion that will fuse the paper’s weekly print edition with its continuous online coverage. The goal is to develop a hybrid form of journalism to better serve readers and advertisers in Humboldt County and perhaps […]
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Saturday Night Funnies
• Journal contributor Amy Stewart tells an amusing tale about weed, literature and Eureka Books in tomorrow’s New York Times. • At the Humboldt Herald, Paul Gallegos supporter “Richard” (?!?) declares fatwah on Supervisor Mark Lovelace for the crime of supporting Paul Hagen. You got Geisted!
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Like Unto the Phoenix!
After two hours of mortal terror and deep existential crisis on the part of your humble sysadmin, this Web site is back. Sorry for the interruption. Apologies, too, if you posted a comment sometime in the last day and now find that it has gone missing. Feel free to repost. I’m outta here.
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The New Northcoastjournal.com!
The North Coast Journal’s new Internet home has arrived! Peek around, poke around, and file any complaints in the comments. There’s bound to be some dusty corners of this thing that still need sprucing up. This is a top-down and head-to-toe revision of our most recent site, which was circa 2007. The first thing you’ll […]
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Ladies & Gents, Marcy B.!
Ladies & Gents, Marcy B.!: The California Journalism Education Coalition recently named the Journal‘s Marcy Burstiner — she hates it when we call her that — “Journalism Educator of the Year.” Burstiner received her crown at Hearst Castle, appropriately
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Care for a Menu?
We in the North Coast Journal editorial department don’t have much to do with the production of our annual Menu of Menus restaurant directory. We just use the living Hell out of it like everyone else. Good news! The 2010 edition is just about to hit the streets, and it’s an 88-page behemoth. This is, […]