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Before Jon Stewart there were cartoonists
From the Washington Post‘s Tom Toles: [HT: Barry Ritholtz]
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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,…
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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,…
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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…