What newspapers can learn from baseball
Photos: Creative Commons via Flickr from Bobster1985, lisatozzi, jeffpearce and Annie Mole. The practice of professional...
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Bono and Sachs blog the UN
Bono is a rock star musician. Jeffrey Sachs is a rock star economist. This week, they were also bloggers for FT.com. Read their posts and you can see clearly how people with passion and purpose can produce journalism that stands out from the routine, gutless reporting we've been indoctrinated to view as normal and right.
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Creative? Or crossing the line?
PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news...
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Politics: Embrace the horse race
Here are three web sites that allow you to rapidly scan and ingest all the data and every shred of news about the U.S. presidential election, and track the trends quantified by a relentless stream of polls.
Read MoreNoted: USC revives Online Journalism Review
The University of Southern California has revived the Online Journalism Review, which had shut down earlier this...
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Dancing elephants twitter amid harsh realities
With retrenchment and job reductions — oh, let’s call them what they really are: mass firings — as...
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The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers
The Society of News Design has announced the World’s Best Designed Newspapers, an award I conceived as chair of...
Read MoreInside the Eastern Media Elite
You’ve got to know the secret handshake to fully appreciate this gem from www.washingtonpost.com...
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To GOP: Sorry about the news. Blame us, buy the shirt.
The news media is taking heat for reporting on politicians who lead or want to lead the country. The president doesn’t...
Read MoreNewspeak alert: NYTimes
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Right? Somehow newspeak in The New York Times reeks just a little...
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Charles Blow blogs by the numbers
Our friend and former colleague Charles Blow has joined the blogging brethren with a discussion on all things statistical. A...
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We Media, convention-style: more moonshine than history
Last night was “a night for history.” USAToday said so this morning. I guess the Nation’s Newspaper...
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News futurist prophesied air traffic failure 8 years ago
Eight years ago media futurist Kerry Northrup of Ifra, a newspaper technology organization based in Germany, produced a...
Read MoreNews you can’t use, so step up to the bar
The first trend from the cable networks is upon us: to cover the Democratic convention, you must drink heavily, act stupid...
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Doom and gloom be damned
Polish editors tired of U.S. journo’s sob story Don’t let the demise of the U.S. news industry fool you, or the...
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