The New York Times Co

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 nor­mal work day […]

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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 phở­to­graph­ers does it take to […]

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Political Blogs

January 5, 2009

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 […]

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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 […]

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