Here’s a mish-mash of Baltimore media news, since we seem to have everyone’s attention on this topic lately:
* Miss the newsroom already? Beehive Baltimore is offering free access for the month of May to laid-off Sun employees. Canton-based Beehive is a co-working center, a concept that the Sun’s Gus Sentementes explains here.
Basically, you get WiFi and some desk space and a chance to network with others, ideally some nifty nerdy folk with mad web skills or some entrepreneurial resources, folks with whom you can collaborate or at least enjoy some coffee and gallows humor.
* The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild is having a mini job fair tomorrow ( Wed., May 6) from from 9:30 am to 2 pm at St. Ignatius Church, 801 St. Paul St. (The entrance is on Madison Street, between St. Paul and Calvert streets.) There will be people there to offer some assistance with unemployment claim filing, health insurance issues and even some potential employers. Freelancers and bloggers will be there to talk about how they do what they do. I’ll be there to talk about the Brew. * Dan Rodricks, son of the former Rose Popolo, and longtime Baltimore Sun columnist, opines in a long interview in Russ Smith’s Splice Today about the virtues of the weed whacker, how the automobile hurt Baltimore, how nobody in the nation wrote better on deadline than Carl Schoettler and how newspapers might save themselves…..
