FiveThirtyEight.com features Omaha (and that one electoral vote) in its latest On the Road entry.

from the San Diego Reader

from the Lincoln Journal Star

from the Omaha Reader

from the Lincoln Journal Star

I’m glad to see someone in Lincoln is a Daily Dish reader too.

Check out the dozens of recently uploaded cartoons by Lincoln artist Pawl Tisdale. They are hilarious.

Here’s a sample of what you’re in for:

from the San Diego Reader

Threatened Journalist is a new anonymous blog from someone within the San Diego Union-Tribune. It provides some honest and depressing insight as to what it’s like inside a crumbling paper. Today’s post is about the temptation to discourage interns from entering the newspaper business; yesterday’s was about the departure of longtime columnist Gerry Braun.

from today’s staff editorial:

You may have noticed that some of our news stories have been missing a few noticeable voices recently. Those voices include University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman, other campus vice chancellors, associate vice chancellors and many more sources you’ve grown to expect to read in our coverage of important campus topics.
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Let us explain the situation our reporters are encountering: These people, mainly administrators, aren’t talking to us. Therefore, we can’t interview them. Without interviews, we can’t quote them in our stories. Here’s why:

At the beginning of the school year, our newly developed projects desk started asking for documents from university officials.

Let’s just say our administration wasn’t too happy with us asking for documents, and soon some of the most important voices on campus received an e-mail from Susan Poser, associate to the chancellor, telling them that Perlman said to not answer any questions or look into any inquiries or requests for documents from journalists working at the Daily Nebraskan…