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The Judgement of Len Downie
I always thought one of the responsibilities of exercising judgment included an attempt to see the other side, or sides; to recognise your prejudices; weigh them, perhaps; and mitigate them. Self awareness was — and remains, I believe — the best remedy to journalistic (and blogging) hubris.
Len Downie, Exec Editor of the Washington Post, practised a more extreme method: Continue reading
The next Len Downie: A Source familiar with his own thinking?
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.
News market fails to be as lousy as ProPublica hopes
Said one director of investigative journalism outfit ProPublica when it launched (my itals):
ProPublica may help lead the way to crafting new approaches addressing the market failure that seems to be taking hold in some segments of publishing, and that threatens a real loss to the health of our democracy.
Market failure, eh? Looks like the market hasn’t quite failed enough. Continue reading