In his Talk to the Newsroom, a useful but extremely limited version of transparency at the New York Times, Executive Editor Bill Keller inadvertently reveals a common failing among today’s journalists when he writes: Perhaps it’s a reporter’s curse, but I seemed to have a gift for seeing both sides of almost every issue. It’s […]
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Department of Irony
Am I the only one who’s bemused that the easiest way to find Georgie Anne Geyer’s commentary, “Without Newspapers, Americans Can’t Understand the World,” is on the Yahoo News site?
One More Reason Newspapers are Losing Readers: Cowardice
Editor & Publisher: South Dakota’s Top Paper Refuses To Editorialize On Abortion Ban. “Part of it was that we wouldn’t change people’s minds, and part of it, regardless of which side we came down on this, is that people would read into it things that are not true,” Chuck Baldwin, editorial page editor of the […]
Best Blogging Newspapers: A Rating Guide
Jay Rosen and his students at New York University have launched their Blue Plate Special, a listing of what they deem to be the best blogging newspapers in America. Check out what they (accurately) call their nifty chart.
So what is "Newsworthy"?
Washington Post Op-Ed columnist Colbert I. King raises a question that more and more people – readers and journalists alike – seem to be asking: who decides what’s newsworthy today? Interestingly, King came to address this issue thanks to feedback from a Post reader who wrote to the editor after the murder of Marion Fye, […]
Was Boston Globe Victim of Setup?
That’s the suggestion in a complex tale surrounding a technology issue in Massachusetts. We’re hearing about this because of some digging by non-journalists, not because the Globe has pursued it very ardently (though the paper is responding, apparently somewhat belatedly, to queries). This is a great example of the journalism-watchdog role that is so prominent […]