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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…
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‘Creative’ Economics vs. Journalism and the Public Trust
I fully expect that most television journalists will not have dived into a copy of Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting by Richard E. Caves. Freakonomics it is not. But Caves is the guy (ok, Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of Political Economy at Harvard) who suggested something that may be appealing to journalists…
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Rupert Murdoch on the future of newspapers
Here is an edited version of Rupert Murdoch‘s Boyer lecture – The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees. One word summary? Brands. But here it is: Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise. I know industries that are today facing stiff new competition from the internet:…
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An old man remembers Fleet Street
I finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn.