I’d had this week circled on the calendar for months for three words: Pitchers and Catchers. That cherished right of spring reminds me that baseball is the subject of much of my favorite digital media. The MLB mobile app is one of my favorites, allowing me to fall asleep to the dulcet tones of Vin … Continue reading »
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A lot of lurching: Gabriel Sherman on the Washington Post’s Demise
It took me a few days, but last night I finally got to Gabriel Sherman’s Post-Apocalypse, an autopsy of the Washington Post.) Andrew Beaujon notes that “Sherman’s Twitter feed has a lot of things that didn’t make it into the story, some of which are much, much better than what actually landed.”) Here are my takeaways: In a new … Continue reading »
Trib Reporter “finally got through after being on hold for 50 minutes”
The Chicago Tribune published an article today describing the trials its reporters faced in traveling through a snowstorm to cover an ugly football game. The detail! Brad Biggs: Biggs worked to get out a day early. Calls to the carrier were unsuccessful….He found room on a United flight at 3:55 p.m. Friday that got him to … Continue reading »
Coverage of baseball’s winter meetings and the future of journalism
I hesitate to use a beat as trivial as baseball as an indicator of other, more important, kinds of journalism, but here goes: As MLB’s winter meetings begin, baseball geeks are chattering about possible deals and analyzing the personnel moves that are made. Let’s compare where they might go for winter meeting coverage. If you’re … Continue reading »
Mapping LA
I began the week annoyed by practices of some newspaper websites, but I’m ending it with praise for the LA Times efforts to involve residents in an effort map the county. Readers have commented on 86 of the 87 neighborhoods we proposed, the one exception being Griffith Park, which has thousands of visitors daily but … Continue reading »
In praise of journalistic legends
I spent Thursday in the company of giants in the field of journalism at Columbia University’s conference on Watchdog Journalism. (Some Columbia Journalism students and recent grads blogged today’s sessions; Twitter coverage here.) In responding to one of my twitter reports, Dan O’Neil pointed me to a piece he wrote last year that articulates some … Continue reading »
A Monday kvetch about newspaper websites
There are better places to read about what’s wrong with newspapers’ websites, so I’ll be brief: Why is the New York Times hiding the audio of its interview with President Obama? Hearing it talked up on MSNBC and NPR, I headed to the Times site to load it onto the iPod for my morning run. … Continue reading »
When We’re forced to Replace Journalism with Google
This Chicago Tribune piece on a pending protest at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops may be a harbinger of the future of journalism, and of the demands placed on consumers who want to know more than a soundbite. The 250 word “article” (published on the unwieldy Chicago Breaking News site) tell us that SNAP … Continue reading »
Trying to Clue-in the Naperville Sun
Jennifer Golz and her editor at the Naperville Sun could benefit from reviewing the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association’s Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology. In reporting on a fairly standard theft conviction, Golz thinks it’s sooo weird to discover someone who prefers to live as a woman. In Male defendant’s lipstick, ponytail don’t deter … Continue reading »
LA Times can’t quite blog Tom Hanks’ endorsement
Do I detect a tone of curmudgeonly resentment in the LA Times’ Andrew Malcolm’s recent Top of the Ticket “blog” post? In an obvious attempt to be ignored for a while, Tom Hanks with no fanfare, news release or hoopla, late tonight put up a video on his MySpace page endorsing Illinois Sen. Barack Obama … Continue reading »
