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...