Category: Media

  • What makes reporters tick?

    Some readers are convinced that certain reporters at the New York Times are motivated solely by partisan politics … reporters and editors … are not motivated by a devotion to any political party or cause.The public editor of the New York Times,Byron Calame, has been figuring out what makes reporters tick. With nearly forty years…

  • Journalism’s Garden secret

    This month a column that has appeared for over thirty years in The Garden – the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society – has come to an end. It was written under the name Tradescant, and every month it produced a page that let slip small details of plant lore in a few paragraphs of…

  • Blogging and newsrooms

    Nice post on blogging and U.S. newspapers from the AJR.

  • Ivy J-Schoolers Fail Ethics, Ace Irony

    What every journalism professor dreads, courtesy of Radar. Cheating on an ethics exam? It sounds like the setup for a joke. But a group of grad students at Columbia’s Journalism School are suspected of having done just that, according to a source at the institution… …In this case, it seems a few of the aspiring…