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Political Blogs

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I missed this from biz school prof Kevin Dooley back in August, 2008:

[H]ow are polit­ical blogs the same or dif­fer­ent from MSM? Through Wonko­sphere, we have noticed that polit­ical blogs are con­sumed in much the same man­ner as main­stream media is, which indic­ates that read­ers treat polit­ical blogs not as sep­ar­ate from, but rather as part of, main­stream media. Wonko­sphere traffic is greatest on Monday, and tends to peak before break­fast, lunch and din­ner, i.e. when people are cruis­ing on the net to end a por­tion of their work day. Blogs act as news­pa­pers for most. Con­tinue read­ing →

Good journalism’s demand ‘problem’

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Columbia Journalism ReviewThe Columbia Journ­al­ism Review takes on a famil­iar trope — the scarcity of atten­tion — and riffs on it in rela­tion to journalism.

Attention—our most pre­cious resource—is in increas­ingly short sup­ply. To win the war for our atten­tion, news organ­iz­a­tions must make them­selves indis­pens­able by pro­du­cing journ­al­ism that helps make sense of the flood of inform­a­tion that inund­ates us all.

Atten­tion, with respect to Her­bert Simon, is not scarce. It is a constant.

It’s just man­aged in ways that read­ers of the Columbia Journ­al­ism Review may find dis­ap­point­ing. Con­tinue read­ing →

The next Len Downie: A Source familiar with his own thinking?

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I’m not even famil­iar with my own think­ing, so I loved this bit of tor­tured sourcing about pos­sible suc­cessors to Len Downie at the Wash­ing­ton Post:

A source famil­iar with [Mar­cus] Brauchli’s think­ing says he is eager to return to edit­ing a news­pa­per, two months after being pres­sured into resign­ing from the [Wall Street] Journal, while another source, who has spoken to [Jon] Meacham about the Post job, says the New­s­week editor, hav­ing recently presided over his own pain­ful round of staff cuts, is less than enthu­si­astic about the pro­spect of a job where more such downs­iz­ing would almost cer­tainly be required.