Tim Porter on newsroom culture and the paucity of training we receive: The culture in most American newsrooms is toxic, dominated by a defensive hierarchy of middle managers who are not rewarded for risk-taking and sustained by systems of reflexive…
Category: Industry commentary
Count your blessings dept.
When you think you’ve got it bad, imagine yourself on assignment to Liberia. Tech writer David Carr is over there, reporting on how U.N. peacekeepers use technology in the midst of pervasive ruin. He’s got a journal of his travels…
Dallas, get ready
One of those edgy, topical papers aimed at young readers is coming your way.
Insert diversity diatribe here
Just kidding, no way I’m going there. Actually it’s just a link to the head of the NAACP bemoaning the absence of minorities in TV news.
Simpsons vs. Fox News
“Simpsons” creator says Rupert Murdoch refused to sue himself.
Prolific perjoratives
In honor of the famous BONG Bull, a link to a bunch of newspaper perjoratives. Pray you will one day work for a paper called the Journal, because it can always be called the Urinal, and hilarity will ensue.
French press more free than ours
So says Reporters Without Borders.
Please, I wanna be a Public Editor too!
How’s this for the job of a lifetime? Mr. Okrent’s columns will appear primarily in the Week in Review section on Sundays, beginning in early December, though not necessarily every week. Mr. Keller said he and the newspaper’s other senior…
Life as The Man
It dawned on me yesterday as I walked into the office that despite my indie pretensions, I’m just a mouthpiece for The Man. That is The Establishment — something vitally important to society because it gives somebody something to be…
Molecular journalism
NanoBots’ Howard Lovy muses on the challenges of reporting on technology so small it can dance on the point of a pin. … take a look at the way important science policy issues are being presented right now (including some…