Palin's swift rise is the talk of her Alaskan town Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:56:38 -0400 Until a week ago, only a relatively few outside Alaska knew of that state's governor, Sarah Palin. All that is different now. To many in Palin's hometown, the GOP vice presidential candidate's near-iconic status is well-deserved. After all, the high school basketball star and former beauty queen rose from Wasilla City Council member to Alaska's first female governor in less than 14 years.
Hanna gets stronger, Ike moves in Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:37:49 -0400 Tropical Storm Hanna's top winds increased to 70 mph and its outer bands brushed Florida's coast as the storm headed toward landfall in the Carolinas Saturday. Hurricane Ike could hit South Florida by Tuesday.
Source: Bush considering Iraq troop cuts Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:10:57 -0400 The top U.S. general in Iraq is recommending nearly 8,000 troop cuts in Iraq because of the improving situation there, a source close to the process has told CNN.
Jobless rate soars to 6.1 percent Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:03:02 -0400 The unemployment rate soared to a nearly five-year high in August, topping 6 percent, as employers trimmed jobs for the eighth straight month. CNNMoney.com reports there was a net loss of 84,000 jobs in August.
Rice lands in Libya on historic visit Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:31:38 -0400 The U.S.'s most senior diplomat Condoleezza Rice arrived in Libya on Friday -- the first time in more than half a century that a U.S. secretary of state has visited the former pariah nation
Caylee's mom walks out of jail again Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:24:10 -0400 For the second time in 15 days, a Florida woman suspected in the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter has left jail, this time after somebody anonymously posted the $500,000 bond.
InfoZone News Museum - Newspaper industry museum at the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library in Pueblo, Colorado.
Newseum - Interactive museum of news with behind-the-scenes views of how and why news is made. Newseum will open in Arlington, Virginia in 2006.
Meta Description: [ The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — will offer visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. Opening on Oct. 15, 2007 in Washington, D.C. ]
Television News Archive - Archive of news broadcasts from 1968 to the present in the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Dead Media Project - Database of notes written and researched by mailing members pertaining to various forms of media and communications devices throughout history. An attempt to catalogue past forms so that future generations might remember them.
Meta Description: [ Home page of the Dead media Project ]
Yesterday's News - History weblog that taps a microfilm archive of Minnesota newspaper articles from the Star Tribune, photos and ads dating back more than a century.