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Before Jon Stewart there were cartoonists

September 21, 2008

From the Wash­ing­ton Post’s Tom Toles: [HT: Barry Ritholtz]

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The Judgement of Len Downie

June 26, 2008

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 […]

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

June 23, 2008

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 […]

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News market fails to be as lousy as ProPublica hopes

June 23, 2008

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 […]

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