How the Times covers Iraq

Great story in next month's Vanity Fair about the New York Times bureau in Iraq, the only U.S paper that hasn't cut back it's i...

Newspaper by hand

Roy Greenslade points us to a new newspaper being published in London, on a very tiny basis: The Manual is an actual hand drawn, hand lette...

One of the good papers

Since we moved to far western North Carolina, where we can get the daily paper from Asheville delivered by mail only, we began buying the Su...

New vs. old journalists and the 'mediasphere'

On the journalism front, there's a little flurry of discussion over how news organizations need to rebuild themselves, leading to this m...

Who gets the news? And a disturbing development

Joel Achenbach is watching the blogs who claim to get the news the 'mainstream media' don't: News we remembered to report . And,...

Herald layoffs

This memo has been forwarded, I suppose, to lots of people, but luckily, one of them was Bob Norman, who posted it on his Daily Pulp blog: 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

Link journalism at the Times

Wow, I didn't even know this was going on. Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 says the New York Times Embraces Link Journalism and cites an e...

Times Machine

Over the last few years, several newspapers have made the expensive investment of scanning their microfilm to make stories available online ...

Newspaper writing: Hemingway style

So how did Ernest Hemingway develop that unique writing style? A lot of it came from his newspaper writing experience, at the Kansas City St...

Newspapers need databases: even in sports

Derek Willis looked at the South Florida coverage of the Miami Dolphins draft, and discovered databases on the Sun Sentinel's and Palm ...