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What’s it really like to head up a world class news organization? The New York Times’ Bill Keller shares with readers the loneliness of command:
Q. I think a lot of young journalists and editors, myself included, are curious about what a day in the shoes of Bill Keller is like. Can you walk us through a […]
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Things we won’t miss about declining political coverage c/o John Robinson:
From the front page of the New York Times today:
President Obama’s order freezing the salaries of his senior aides and the pen he used to sign it. Doug Mills/The New York Times
Answering the burning question, how many news photographers does it take to shoot a pen.
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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 […]
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I‘ve been pondering the relationship between journalism and democracy of late, and so too have the academic commenters gathering at the blog of Social Science Research Council boss, Craig Calhoun.
Calhoun asks the question Sam Zell has already answered - What is the future of newspapers? And when social scientists smell blood, they’re mostly rubbing their […]
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There’s an interesting look at the problems of newspapers online by Robert Ivan at Seeking Alpha, focusing on the New York Times. I don’t know about the assumptions - I’ve seen the cost of the NYT’s newsgathering put at $200m - and I’ve simplified it a little, but here it is:
Despite the highest readership of any […]
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British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms […]
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