John Koopman of the San Francisco Chronicle was embedded with a Marine combat unit in Iraq. The first chapter of his account is posted here. He’s the rare newsie with a military background, having done a four-year peacetime hitch in…
Category: Industry commentary
West Coast newsies, fess up:
Your paper probably did a stroke piece on that new Disney Hall in Los Angeles, didn’t it? Seems everybody was mad for the thing; William Powers of National Journal describes the carnage, then offers this aside on why we write…
Scooping ourselves
Newspapers are increasingly scooping themselves by sharing stories with other newspapers around the world and with television and Internet sites in the United States.
Uh, sorry about that
The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s editor confesses the paper’s only real excuse for running a picture showing a guy falling to his death was, “well, we were there,” and issues an apology. See, this is how newspapers are different from, say,…
L.A. observances
The SoCal-centric L.A. Observed has a couple swell links: How two women became the Super Vixens of L.A. journalism; and a pointer to a legal blog kept by journalist Matthew Heller.
Interviewing with a minder
Tom Murphy of PR Opinions keeps providing an interesting window into the world of PR people. Today’s topic: whether the flack should hover nearby when newsies are interviewing corporate bigshots. An aside: You think you have a tough job telling…
The world according to Jim
Just for fun I thought up this list of reasons why we crave Romenesko’s Media News, where it’s news if it reveals: Something happening at a New York magazine none of us reads. Something happening at one we do read.…
Save me, Jonah!
That evil Media Elite stole my babies away and won’t give ’em back!
New CJR issue online
See for yourself.
Masses still like the media
At least that’s what they’re telling the advertising folks.