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Baltimore Media News Round-up

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…..

    The Daily Drip

    • September 2, 2010

      • Highlights from Investigative Voice’s coverage of pretrial deliberations, as three men go on trial for the 2008 killing of Baltimore City Councilmember Kenneth H. Harris. “You look at my face when you’re talking to me!” Circuit Court Judge David Ross said yesterday to Assistant State’s Attorney Cynthia M. Banks, who was reading from a notepad [...]

      • Here’s another opportunity for Baltimore bicyclists to assert themselves: city transportation officials are installing an automatic bike counter on the Fallsway. This comes from a bulletin from the city Department of Transportation, which tells cyclists to “just look for the diamond-shaped groove and ride over it. “If we have the traffic numbers and public support,” [...]

    • September 1, 2010

      • Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has announced that the famous Georgia-based Le Mans racing series will participate in the Baltimore Grand Prix racing events this weekend.

      • The unidentified gun man who allegedly entered and fired shots inside the Discovery Communications building in Silver Springs, MD some time earlier today has supposedly released the following list of demands, which are published on a website with the URL http://savetheplanetprotest.com, the link to which has been circulating around Twitter.  Discovery Communications is the umbrella company [...]

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