Yikes.That was the collective reaction in the newsroom here at SF Weekly when we heard that David Weir, one of the deans of Bay Area journalism, had been laid off from the Web site Predictify. Weir's news-business credentials are sterling: His past gigs include investigative reporter at Rolling Stone, Editor in Chief at 7x7 magazine, managing editor for Salon.com, executive vice president at KQED, and managing editor of Mother Jones. He was also executive director and co-founder of the Center
The Rev. Moon has opened an unexpected front in his struggle to win a broader audience for his messianic pretensions: African-American churches and their preachers
Three sports clothing companies are sponsoring contests that encourage surfers to ride the 60-foot waves at Maverick's Point. Someone may be encouraged to death.
In order to re-inforce our point that this year's SPJ honorees heark from a different era, here's a Spencer Tracy referenceLast week, the Society of Professional Journalists -- whose membership is growing ever more, shall we say, selective every day now -- honored three men as "fellows," the highest award it can bestow. It's a high honor, and one earned not in years or decades but a lifetime. That being said, in a time when the robustness of the field of journalism is getting to be on par with t
