The other day I posted about how federal banking regulations have made it possible for Bank of America to purloin $45,000 of Daily News grant money.

What happened afterward is a testament to the power of social media and the Internet.

Monday night, I tweeted the blog post to Bank of America's official Twitter help representative, and I e-mailed a copy of it to B of A's corporate social responsibility office -- the folks that burnish the bank's reputation by helping nonprofits. 

Tuesday a.m., the bank's designated twitterer, David Knapp, requested some more info from us....more

One of the things I don't blog about often enough are the challenges and joys of running a small business.

Until I launched the Daily News four years ago, I'd never hired someone, never fired someone, and never had to meet a payroll.

Now I understand all about liquidity, and about how businesses need ready access to cash and credit, and how the recession has impacted that. I can't say we've been helped much by the federal stimulus bill. But I certainly have an idea for another piece of legislation that would dramatically ease the availability...more

A new study by the Community Media Workshop pronounces Chi-Town Daily News the No. 1 independent/alternative source for local news in Chicago.

One of the study's main components was looking at how large of an audience local websites reach. So if you're a regular Daily News reader, give yourself a pat on the back. You helped get us the gold.

We've worked really hard over the past year to grow traffic and produce reporting that has some real impact. It's nice to be noticed.

No good deed goes unpunished, though. Some naysayers are already questioning the statistics, and...more

Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's media critic, wrote a great article today on the Daily News.

Meanwhile, Chicago Tonight took an interesting look at local journalism in Chicago in the wake of the Sun-Times bankruptcy. My big mug is featured prominently.

One of the more tragicomedic moments of yesterday's Journalism Town Hall was the reaction to my assertion that a $2 million online news organization could replace the local-news reporting function of a Sun-Times or Chicago Tribune.

People flat out didn't believe it. I heard pushback on the panel, I heard about it during the break, I heard about it after the event ended.

I don't know what these folks have in mind, but it sounds like a lot of journalists and news observers are convinced it takes tens, or hundreds, of millions of dollars to run a robust local news...more