News briefs for September 17, 2009

Interviews

» Over on Tall Tale Radio, Tom Racine interviews Kimberly Krautter about her book, “Foreclosure on the Fourth Estate: How ‘spin-fluence’ and ‘info-tainment’ killed the American Newspaper.” In earlier weeks, he interviews Jonathan Lemon about the Monsters of Webcomics exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum and Jeff Ranjo, story artist at Disney, and John Sanford, story artist at Dreamworks, about their careers in animation.

» Mike Peterson interviews Frazz cartoonist Jef Mallett. See video below:

Newspapers

» Some good news. E&P writes, “The stocks of newspaper companies surged Wednesday on optimism that advertising spending may be, if not recovering, then at least not declining faster than before.”

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