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 »
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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 »
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 »
Super-mega Tuesday Newspaper Endorsements– relevant in “highly visible races?”
The NYT endorsements of HRC, and McCain, made news on Friday; today we see that the largest papers in Illinois, Arizona and Washington all endorsed Obama on Sunday; as did the San Jose Mercury News. The more interesting question to me is how helpful, and whether they’re a good idea. Tim Porter, in AJR in … Continue reading »
EveryBlock Debuts, as the Sun-Times Winds Down
EveryBlock, the much-anticipated new project from ChicagoCrime founder Adrian Holovaty, debuted Wednesday– at least for Chicago, New York and San Francisco. (Was it a a coincidence that Wednesday was also the anniversary of the birth of Django Reinhardt, Holovaty’s gypsy jazz guitar hero?) I’ve had fun exploring restaurant reviews and Flickr photos near my block, … Continue reading »
La Opinion Grows By Focussing on Community
The ongoing fall in newspaper circulation was widely reported earlier this month. What received less attention, at least within my Google Reader universe, is the fact that the numbers for Spanish-language dailies continue to grow. La Opinion, Los Angeles’ Spanish-language daily, is the nation’s fastest growing large paper. While circulation of large dailies dropped 2.9%, … Continue reading »
The Onion and Nichey News Models of the Future
Greg Beato’s homage to The Onion in the November issue of Reason Magazine is finally linkable. At a time when traditional newspapers are frantic to divest themselves of their newsy, papery legacies, The Onion takes a surprisingly conservative approach to innovation. As much as it has used and benefited from the Web, it owes much … Continue reading »
