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The Pulliam Fellowship awards $75,000 to an outstanding editorial writer or columnist to help broaden his or her journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world. The annual award can be used to cover the cost of study, research and/or travel in any field. The fellowship results in editorials and other writings, including books.

Makes the case for a firm hand in the editorial office and bemoans budget cuts that eliminate editorial positions. "But without strong editors, writers are like cars with accelerators but no brakes. "

What wall? The question for print has become less about whether to cross the boundary between editorial and sales and more about how best to do it.

Article about the history of electronic peer-review sytems coauthored by Lyndon Holmes, creator of Editorial Manager.

Editor & Publisher has found a new buyer — but its top editorial talent will not stay with the magazine. The magazine, which chronicles the newspaper industry, was set to fold after Nielsen sold many, but not all, of its trade publications to e5 Global Media LLC.

Found this interesting, if for no other reason than as proof that the world at large is thinking about the implications of moving even past Web 2.0 and on to Web 3.0 (My apologies -- while I have referenced the article as translated by Babelfish, the original article is in French so the English may be a bit choppy; the ideas seem to remain intact, however, and the author's speculations about the future of the Web are interesting). Original link, for those who read French: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/506930/que-nous-prepare-le-web-3-0/

Free and shared cost models for academic publishing. Cites other organizations that, like NAP, have sustainable models with free content.

This has more to do with last night's class than the epub class, but I thought this tiny tidbit was interesting considering one of the last things we heard last night was about the demise of a verification process.

Old question renewed during BusinessWeek's Media Summit.

When HP's webOS-based TouchPad makes its debut on July 1, it will ship with a new way for users to discover various apps for the platform, webOS Pivot. Pivot is basically a digital publication designed to help users discover different types of apps and content and to give developers more exposure. Every month, HP says it will publish Pivot, and that it will "include visually driven editorial pieces, columns from notable guest writers sharing their perspectives on digital culture, feature stories focused on applications around specific topics, and in-depth reviews."

is the crowd better source of cooking information than a master chef? Could your next cookbook be a wiki?

A former Senior VP and Executive Editor of Random House looks back on the industry to provide a measure of change and suggests some overlooked opportunities.

What can happen to a journal's editorial integrity when the influence of "big pharma" becomes too great

An editorial from an Oxford philosophy professor on the problem of publishing pointless papers being unethical in academic publishing - he argues there is a little of unoriginal drivel being recycled from old papers.