Examiner's Phelps and Delegate Rosenberg on Assembly Agenda

A publisher who is a true believer in newspapers and a state legislator who is a true believer in journalism will be the featured speakers at the MDDC Awards Assembly. Read More

Virginia Federal Court Ruling Holds Opinion is not Defamatory

Federal trial court Judge Claude Hilton said that an unprivileged quote is clearly not defamatory, but is, in context, the statement of an opinion. Read More

Want Salespeople to Achieve? Get S.M.A.R.T.
by James Lorenzen

Success in anything requires S.M.A.R.T. goals. Read More

TECHNOLOGY with KEVIN SLIMP: How Do You Like Your iPad? With 3G Network Access Please

Less than an hour after the release of Apple's iPad, I was asked, "How do you like your new iPad?" Imagine the response when I answered, "I don't have one yet." Read More

WRITING WISDOM with JIM STASIOWSKI: What's the Square Root of Logic?

I am pleading with reporters and editors to subject evrtyhing we write to a simple test: Is it logical? Read More

LEGAL: Who Prevails? The Airport or Readers?
by Alice Neff Lucan

The newspapers distributing at the Raleigh-Durham Airport in North Carolina won the right to place newsracks in that airport after a total, but “informal,” ban had been in effect. Read More

HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHIES: Mike Mahr

The Washington Times' ad director for seventeen years was the gold standard of advertising executives. Read More

HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHIES: Jean Moon

The general manager of Patuxent Publishing from its humble beginnings at the Columbia Flier broke barriers for community newspapers. Read More

HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHIES: Ralph Moyed

The News Journal reporter went as far as he had to to tell a story, and took his readers along for the ride. Read More

HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHIES: Zeke Orlinsky

The former lawyer saw a need for a newspaper in the community of Columbia and in meeting the need, started a regional publishing franchise. Read More

Help Wanted

The Frederick News-Post and The Herald-Mail are now hiring. Read More