View from the top: the life of an editor

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 for The Times’s exec­ut­ive editor?
— Devin Baner­jee, Stan­ford, Calif.
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The growing significance of the UK media in covering US politics

The TimesIf you wanted a sign of the grow­ing import­ance of the UK news media in report­ing US polit­ics (a phe­nomenon sup­por­ted by Matt Drudge, the now global online mar­ket in Eng­lish lan­guage news, and the largely apolit­ical US press), here it is.

Media Mat­ters, a Democratic-leaning MSM rebut­tal ser­vice, turns its power­ful fisk­ing atten­tion to this Times report. Con­tinue read­ing

Arguing against Nick Davies

Flat Earth News by Nick DaviesBritish 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 and ana­lysis. Con­tinue read­ing