http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_741_The_End_Of_The_News.mp3 Two views from the last days of the Rocky Mountain News. Also: two years as a mole inside an Islamist cell. Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_741_The_End_Of_The_News.mp3/logo.jpg http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_741_The_End_Of_The_News.mp3 <h4>The End of the News</h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/789c110ebd6cef06adc0230f4ec0d58a" alt="littwin.jpg" height="100" width="100" /><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/7ea1af22b739561c22a354ca3d307dd1" alt="Kim-Humphreys-2.jpg" height="100" width="100" />Mike Littwin and Kim Humphreys </p><p>When the Rocky Mountain News closed its doors last month, Mike Littwin was one of the few on staff who had another job waiting: as a well-known columnist, he’d been hired by the Rocky’s former rival, The Denver Post. As he tells Dick Gordon, Mike still feels guilty he survived when so many of his former colleagues are without a newspaper job. </p><p>Kim Humphreys, a copy editor, was one of those who had no other job waiting. But if things work out the way she and a lot of other people hope they will, Kim will soon be working on an online startup called InDenverTimes.com. Kim says the newspaper business is clearly changing, but good journalism must be saved.</p><ul><li>Check out <a href="http://www.indenvertimes.com/">InDenverTimes</a></li><li>Read Mike Littwin's <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/littwin">column in The Denver Post</a><br /></li></ul><p></p><h4><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a></h4><p class="dateline"></p><h4>Spying for Islam<br /></h4><p><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/02c29929c937fe716ba55b24b87c90f9" alt="Mubin Shaikh" height="100" width="100" />Mubin Shaikh spent two years as an intelligence service mole inside an Islamist cell which was allegedly plotting to blow up Canada's Parliament buildings and behead the Prime Minister. Mubin lost his standing within the Muslim community for his role, and became a controversial figure when it was revealed that he was paid $300,000 for his services. <br /></p><p>Mubin tells Dick that despite everything, he would do it again as a matter of both principle and faith.</p><p><b>Update:</b> On March 24, 2009 Mubin Shaikh was cleared from charges of entrapment by a Judge in a Brampton Court. "There has not been any entrapment and there has not been any abuse of process," Judge Sproat told the court. "It's clear the application must be dismissed."</p><h4><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a></h4><p></p><p class="dateline"></p> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:00:00