[CW:MONTHLY] The Click List

2,400 Newsroom Jobs Lost, Biggest Dip in 30 Years
By Rick Edmonds, Poynter Institute
After years of mildly reassuring numbers tracking the size of newspaper newsroom staffs, the latest American Society of Newspapers Editors' annual census leads with a bombshell. Fulltime professional news staffs fell by 2,400 last year, a drop of 4.4% to a total of 52,600.

New Resource for Journalists: Online Tool Exploring Media Bias
Skewz.com
Skewz is a new online tool designed to reveal political bias in online media through a user-driven voting system. Skewz was founded with the goal of presenting news without the underlying political agenda, to expose to the reader the most objective account of the issue at hand. Use Skewz's split-view functionality to see what both sides have to say on a particular topic, or engage your own readers by adding the Skewz widget to your site or blog so they can skew your content.

Bright Ideas for the Taking
Sunshine Week 2008
From tropical islands to snowy peaks, sunshine spread across the country March 16-22 as newspapers, broadcasters, online media, schools, libraries, public officials, civic groups and individuals celebrated open government. Visit their online gallery to see examples of the different ways people marked Sunshine Week this year.

What's News? Who Knows! Welcome to Print 2.0
By John Koblin, New York Observer
When The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on April 9 that "barring a change" Katie Couric and CBS News were "likely" to part ways and that it "could" happen after the election (those are just the qualifiers from its headline and subhead), Matthew Drudge picked it up quick as lightning on the Drudge Report.

Survey: 61 Percent of Americans Want Indecency Rules for 'Net Radio
Radio Ink
American Media Services has released more findings from its "Radio Index" survey, reporting that 61 percent of American adults would like the government to regulate the use of obscenities and profanity on Internet radio.