Investigating his own dark story.(BOOKS)(The Night of the
Gun)(Book review)
For most journalists, the route to the New York Times doesn't
generally include crack smoking, drug dealing, spouse beating and jail
time. But all those activities preceded David Carr's arrival in . . .
The Oakland project: in an echo of the Arizona Project that
investigated the murder of slain journalist Don Bolles in 1976, Bay
During the final hour of his life, Chauncey Bailey ate breakfast at
McDonald's and bought a meal for a homeless man. He was on foot,
heading toward his newsroom a few blocks away when he spotted . . .
Blog Binge: more than 70 percent of the political journalists
surveyed by communications firm Brodeur in May said they spent at
Tom Edsall, The Huffington post Real Clear Plitics
The Huffington Post Real Clear Markets The Page by Mark
Halperin, Time Marc Ambinder,
. . .
Voice in the wilderness; A retired journalist provides
up-to-the-minute local news online in his rural Virginia county.(DROP
CAP
Two years ago, James Gannon felt a growing frustration with local
news coverage in Rappahannock County, Virginia, a rural area about 70
miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
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Vanishing Iraq coverage.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
I read your story "Whatever Happened to Iraq?"
(June/July) because I am trying to figure out the same thing. Why did
the news from Iraq disappear about the time the situation here started
to . . .
On the go: what's the outlook for mobile TV news?(BROADCAST
VIEWS)
If local television news is going to survive, it will have to get
out of the living room. And the den. And the kitchen. Having watched its
audience shrink for years, the broad-cast industry hopes . . .
Disconnected; As embattled news organizations try to safeguard
their futures with intensely local coverage, there's often a wide
You can't blame Linda Borg, who's covered education for
the Providence Journal for roughly 10 years, if she sometimes feels as
if she's not even speaking the same language as the students . . .
Going long: a new quarterly bucks trends toward web publishing
and short-form journalism.(DROP CAP)(Dispatches)
The new publication called "dispatches" doesn't look
like your typical news-magazine. It's the size of a grocery store
romance novel, and its 200 pages are devoid of color. The cover is . . .
Politico animal: a year and a half after launch, Politico lives
up to the hype.(DROP CAP)
When veteran Washington Post political reporters John Harris and
Jim VandeHei urged their bosses to create a Web site strictly dedicated
to politics, management didn't jump at the idea.
Less than . . .
Shameful Behavior.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
All of you should stop and hang your heads in shame for 15 seconds
for your misuse of the word "epicenter" in "Investigating
the Dean" (April/May).
"Epicenter" is a geological term meaning on the . . .
Win some, lose some; Tribune's editorial approach is as
wrongheaded as its business ideas are refreshing.(THE NEWSPAPER
BUSINESS
When I was a young newspaper reporter in upstate New York, the
publisher decided to measure the amount of copy produced by each of his
reporters. His secretary was assigned to measure the column . . .
Notice what you notice: stop obsessing about the depressing
industry news on Romenesko and open your eyes to all of the amazing
New York Times urban affairs reporter Sam Roberts describes himself
as somewhat shy, not apt to approach strangers on subways, Like many
journalists, he's more likely to wander around looking for . . .
Cable's clout: with their obsessive single-topic focus, are
the three 24-hour cable news channels setting the agenda for the res
Chances are, most Americans knew something about Sen. Barack
Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by the middle of
March. Wright, after all, had been mentioned in connection with Obama . . .
Correction of the month.(Jesse Helms)(Correction notice)
"An article today in Sunday Business about missed
opportunities to reduce America's dependence on imported oil refers
to a 1990 effort by Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina,
to block . . .
An AJR homecoming: Jennifer Dorroh is AJR's new managing
editor.(FULL COURT PRESS)(American Journalism Review)
You never print the good news.
It's a lament editors have heard for years from readers
overwhelmed by tales of tragedy, mayhem and heartbreak.
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So we'll accentuate the . . .
A dizzying pace: journalism schools race to keep up with dramatic
changes in the field.(PRIME TIME)
I was interested to learn that Sen. John McCain's running
mate, Sarah Palin, has a degree in journalism. Palin graduated with a
bachelor's degree in 1987 from what was then the School . . .
First responders: citizen media's agility during the Iowa
floods offers a lesson to traditional journalists.(THE ONLINE
FRONTIER
On Friday, June 13, Denise Clark drove to an emergency shelter in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to find out how she could help her flooding
community. She was eager to lend a hand, but after waiting for two . . .
Handheld headlines; News organizations are embracing content
aimed at cell phones and other mobile devices as part of their surv
Never mind that you risk walking into walls or oncoming traffic
while trying to type m. nytimes.com on a cell phone keyboard. Never mind
that your fingers are too big for the keys. Never mind that . . .
Dizzying array.(Cliche Corner)(Brief article)
"A flurry of recent research indicating that Vitamin D may
have a dizzying array of health benefits has reignited an intense debate
over whether federal guidelines for the 'sunshine vitamin' . . .
Sweet! Welcome to the high-energy world of Lynn Sweet, Chicago
Sun-Times Washington bureau chief, indefatigable blogger, Obama
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There are several ways to discover that Lynn Sweet, columnist and
Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times and tireless
chronicler of all things Obama, is no fan of indirect questions.
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