A couple of weeks ago, a few of us sat down with Baltimore Sun Today Editor Andrew Ratner for about an hour-and-a-half. A Harford County resident himself, Ratner had been following The Dagger for some time and was interested in writing a story about us. That story was published today in The Sun: Local Web […]
Council President Hiob vs. The Record: Influence Peddling or Defamation?
There are plenty of great local feuds in Harford County, but my personal favorite is the long-running war waged between Aberdeen City Council President Mike Hiob and the local media. In the last skirmish in this age-old battle, we saw Hiob recommending The Record newspaper be used as “a classic method of wrapping fresh fish,” […]
Examining The Dwindling Options For Getting Local News In Baltimore
With the Baltimore Examiner on the way out, where are we supposed to get our news now? the b? The Examiner may have been an object of derision among people looking for more than shallow sips of news, and from people adverse to a paper with a right-wing slant, but it brought some important things […]
New American Journalism Or Flat Out Poison? – Joshua
The idea was a grand one. It’s rare these days to be in on a grand idea, an idea that for a short time is so free of the daily round of human nonsense that you are almost short of breath. The idea was that a crew of mostly ex-newspaper writers could remake American Journalism […]
No Longer Do You Have To Feel Alone – Kristi
It started about four or five years ago. We were local journalists and photographers hanging around during the lunch hour while our editors quibbled over details and brainstormed our next adventures in the meeting room. I think we were all becoming disenchanted with how things were done because we began talking about how things could […]
The Return of DaggerRadio on WAMD 970 AM Tuesday Morning
For anyone within earshot, tune your radio dials to WAMD 970 AM Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. to catch Part II of The Dagger’s interview on ‘Aberdeen Happenings’ with host Mark Schlottman. We somehow managed to squeeze about 8 or 9 of us, plus a cat, into the tiny Aberdeen radio station, but couldn’t squeeze […]
“A Classic Method of Wrapping Fresh Fish” And Other Uses For A Local Newspaper, Courtesy Of A Local Politician
The prolonged battle between Aberdeen City Councilman Mike Hiob and local newspaper The Record continued this week with the politician getting in the latest jab – a list of the top “uses” for the newspaper he read during Monday night’s city council meeting, which include wrapping fish, washing windows and checking to see how many […]
Aegis Launches Ink-Saving Campaign – Truncates Week-Old Letter
Homestead Publishing Company, parent of the Aegis and Record newspapers, announced Friday morning that, in order to save ink, letters to the editor would be arbitrarily truncated – particularly if those letters make mention of a certain local news and commentary website peopled largely by ex-Homesteaders. In order to save costs at the printing press, […]