In support of journalism

Via the McClatchy VP Howard Weaver's blog, Etaoin Shrdlu , I was stirred by the report on a column in the Macon Telegraph by Editorial P...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) Since Dr. Martin Luther King's murder in April, investigators had been following a t...

Going back to 1971

From Howard Owens: Spare me the fancy redesigns and give me some text to read . Among the gems: Spare me the big graphics and four-column ph...

Newspapers, bloggers, and librarians

The question of journalists and blogging has been debated for years, and I've linked to lots and lots of stuff on the topic. There's...

Blogging his layoff at the Miami Herald

Hmm. This is why I stopped doing my Miami Herald blog two years ago when they dropped my post-retirement freelance contract. Things must be ...

Who needs copyeditors?

Gene Weingarten writes that the recent Washington Post buyouts haven't affected his written product, at all: Yanks Thump Sox . (Thanks t...

Cell phone directory, news research and interpreting the news, and politics

Some more interesting thoughts on news research and other topics... In the Wall Street Journal by Jason Fry, The Case of the Missing White P...

Change happens (South Florida newspapers version)

I've been following the coverage of the announced layoffs at the Miami Herald , of course, and am struck by a few things: The first onli...

No more OJR

Sad to see that the Online Journalism Review , a staple of my reading since I started blogging, is going away , and that Robert Niles has le...

Research links of the week

I haven't had much time to blog lately but did pick up some good reference sites last week, so here they are, in no particular order: GD...

Good news, investigations and archives, and watching for racism

It's really good news to see ProPublica go live. It's the new independent investigative reporting site started by former Wall St. J...

Where do you get local news?

Via Mindy McAdams' Teaching Online Journalism site, a link to a report by Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0: What Newspapers Still Don’t Unde...

Old news

Yesterday, Dave Winer raised an interesting point about the story of John McCain's first marriage in the Daily Mail. Why isn't thi...

Bloggers are watching you

It's becoming a given that if someone writes a news story that contains an error, bloggers will draw attention to it. Here's one in ...

Journalists and openness

Lots of buzz about "Off the Bus" blogger Mayhill Fowler (see previous post ), after a profile in the Los Angeles Times and a Howa...

Research links roundup, and some enlightening commentary

Back on the politics commentary, a couple things I found interesting in the last couple days: In The American Prospect, Seven Ways Hillary C...

40 years ago and now

I'm increasingly intrigued by the parallels between 1968 and today as commentators write about Barack Obama and Bobby Kennedy in the sam...

More news tweets than you think

Via Mark Schaver , a link to a posting at GraphicDesignr that lists the number of Twitter tweets coming from newspapers around the country. ...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) On Tuesday, June 4, California held its primary. Winning this primary was essential to B...

Character of a candidate, researching size, Miami Herald legends, and politicized journalists

In all the blogging and commenting this morning about last night's speeches, one stands out for me. In The Moderate Voice , by Pete Abel...

Remembering who was right

I didn't know, until I noticed it in Dan Gillmor's blog, that respected McClatchy Washington reporters Warren Stroebel, Jonathan Lan...

Worst in 40 years?

Part of the reason I've been remembering and researching the events of 1968 is because I just have a feeling about this year's race...

New ways to get the news

I'm intrigued with today's story about the Bill Clinton rant against the author of the negative Vanity Fair story about him, record...

Blogging: a true reporter's calling

Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm, in his new blog The Grimm Truth , makes a statement about journalism and blogging that strikes true to me...

Posting the pictures

One of the things I miss most about reading newspapers online is getting to see all the pictures, in a size where you can make out detail. M...

On libraries and the news

In the upcoming issue of New York Review of Books: The Library in the New Age , by Robert Darnton. This discussion of how information is dis...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) At the beginning of June, it was starting to feel as though the world was falling apart...

A few research links

New York Times coverage of national political conventions, 1896-1996 . Agflation: The real costs of rising food prices , news and data from...