Newspapers reporters everywhere are freshening up their résumés and checking the very online job-hunting sites helping to drive their employers deeper into financial uncertainty. With print advertising revenues continuing to plummet and the economy slowing, America’s newsrooms have more empty cubicles. Full-time news staffs at daily papers fell by 2,400 last year, a 4.4 percent […]
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Indy alums discuss journalism’s future
When the Independent Weekly launched in 1983 as a monthly, paid-subscription, statewide political publication, it entered a very small media universe. There were a handful of local daily newspapers and radio stations. CNN had just started broadcasting, and the notion of 24-hour cable news was a revelation made possible by the major technological innovation of […]
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INDY Alums: Extended Interviews
When the Independent Weekly launched in 1983 as a monthly, paid-subscription, statewide political publication, it entered a very small media universe. There were a handful of local daily newspapers and radio stations. CNN had just started broadcasting, and the notion of 24-hour cable news was a revelation made possible by the major technological innovation of […]
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Bill Clinton scouts the North Carolina battleground; his wife follows this week
Delivering a speech in Cary last week, former President Bill Clinton cited an endorsement from North Carolina native Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton, whom Clinton appointed to the first of his two terms as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Thirty-four retired generals and admirals have endorsed Hillary Clinton. “Why did they endorse the girl […]
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Allies unite with New Hill vs. treatment plant
A citizens’ group in the unincorporated Wake County community of New Hill now has an ally in its effort to change the proposed site of a sewage treatment plant. DavisAndHighHouse.org, a nonpartisan citizens’ group in Cary, today announced that on the behalf of New Hill it will ask the Town of Cary to reconsider where […]
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A move in western Wake to elect the school board at-large
Hell hath no fury like a parent reassigned. The annual reassignment mess in the Wake County school system has turned families’ lives upside down year after year. Parents’ frustrationmostly in the suburban parts of the county, and especially booming western Wakehas made them determined to do something, anything, to change the situation. With the May […]
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Durham Performing Arts Center announces its inaugural season
As the exterior glass walls go up around the four-story atrium of Durham’s $46 million performing arts center, excitement is growing among city leaders who are eager to see the curtain rise on the city’s major downtown investment. With construction ahead of schedule thanks to the drought, the management of the Durham Performing Arts Center […]
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Extra innings for TV baseball dispute
Will Time Warner Cable customers in the Triangle be able to watch Major League Baseball this spring? An arbitrator charged with settling that question has been removed from the dispute, leaving it unanswered as opening day approaches. Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, a Maryland-based network that carries Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals games, objected last year when […]
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Durham Performing Arts Center announces its inaugural season
It’s definitely happening. A much-anticipated announcement on Thursday of the Broadway lineup for Durham Performing Arts Center’s inaugural season brought out city dignitaries eager to see the lights come on at the city’s major downtown investment. A “10th-anniversary” production of Rent will begin the season next January, followed by Fiddler on the Roof in March, […]
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Theresa O’Toole
When sparks from the pyrotechnics turned into flames that began to lick the wall, Theresa O’Toole looked around expecting someone to leap into action. But the band, Great White, kept playing, and the crowd just stared as the fire grew more intense. O’Toole screamed at her then-husband Todd King over the music, “We have to […]
