The New York Times profiles the city where a newspaper editor was murdered awhile back.
Category: Industry commentary
Yeah, Right Department
From a Chicago Trib column about naming the ill-fated Cubs fan: “It’s not simply a matter of getting the facts right. Our professionalism demands that we balance legitimate news value against the potentially harmful consequences of our coverage. That’s what…
Detroit unions settle
They took a small beating now to avoid risking a worse beating later. Either way, they get bruised and scarred. You have to love the way big-city newspapers are the breast-beating champions of the little guy, except when it comes…
Covering the recall coverage
A Stanford professor says print media did a lousy job of covering issues that mattter to families and children. Yeah, but, you know, if Arnie is a groper, our families and children will want to be warned, right? Tim Porter…
Orwell awards nominee
You know, for trying to say war is peace, life is death, etc. The White House says we can’t cover the return of coffins from overseas. Yeah, that should make it go away.
N.Y. Times can’t buy a break
Even its typography decisions are being held up up for ridicule. Testy Copy Editors: Don’t waste type telling us about type. Jeff Jarvis: The media exec agrees. (Jarvis may tarnish his standing in the blogger elite, though, for having actual…
‘Now that I have a dog at home, I’m adding more dogs to cartoons’
… and more details from the workday of a Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist. A recent Walt Handelsman scrawl:
On growing up, and down
Dan Savage, sex columnist and editor of The Stranger in Seattle, has some words for daily newspaper people that I wholeheartedly agree with. You know, there’s some paper’s that take the fucks out of “Savage Love.” People will say they…
A media mauling in action
Some guy does what any of us would do in his shoes, and the next thing you know he’s Public Enemy No. 1. I realize in this day and age that the Cubs fan in question would’ve been named by…
OK, we’re not always heroes
But some of us do give their lives in service of a story. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) said on Wednesday that 51 journalists have been killed on the job or because of their work this year. In all…