Because the headline says “State of the American Newspaper.” Excerpt: How are newspapers coping as they try to make sense of the uncertainty in Iraq and stay in position to cover terrorism everywhere? To find out, I spoke with editors…
Category: Industry commentary
The Deep Throat pioneers
How the New York Times got the inside skinny on emerging porn.
Urban legends of Baghdad
AJR asks, are we to blame because so many Americans are such morons?
Fun weekend reading
Think about being fired upon in a foreign country next time you’re grousing about what a pain those reporters are.
Financial Times online boss interviewed
She says they’ll pay for news if it’s specific to their needs, and that most of their news goes on the Web first, then gets followed in the paper.
George Plimpton dies
Here’s the Google News roundup. Another celebrity passing: Robert Palmer. These bring a question to mind: whom would you rather be remembered as, the Paris Review guy or the guy with the empty-faced, guitar-playing babes in the rock video?
The sexy life of a food writer
Read all about it in “Food Porn” at CJR. I do the production on our weekly Food section, so any lascivious links about food reporting will be latched upon. OK, the serious part: And never before has interest in food…
Edward Said dies
… read the New York Times obit. Said’s life offers a plain lesson about the tendency of the media to pigeonhole people. From the story: He was an exemplar of American multiculturalism, at home both in Arabic and English, but,…
Score one for Rosen
Another great post, this one about whether news coverage in Iraq is too negative. It’s long and think-piece-ish but worth slogging all the way through.
Reporter laments presidential reading habits
This missive was on Romenesko’s letter’s page: From JOHN CHEVES: I don’t know which is more depressing, that President Bush admits he gets his news by scanning newspaper headlines, not reading the stories, or that he probably shares this trait…