Breaking Up With Newspapers; A Love Story

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 25, 2010 at 09:56 AM

The manufactured pomp and circumstance of Valentine's Day has come and gone but this essay, written by Mimi Johnson, the... More

Note To Self: Palin and the Handy Memo

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 10, 2010 at 11:04 AM

In the days since Gawker caught Sarah Palin with crib notes scribbled on her palm during her weekend speech at... More

Landrieu on the Line

Two Louisiana political reporters on why James O’Keefe’s Landrieu story wasn’t news to them

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 4, 2010 at 01:17 PM

When ACORN provocateur James O’Keefe and three accomplices were arrested at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office last week in... More

Darts and Laurels

New profit demands raise questions about a commitment to quality

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 3, 2010 at 06:46 PM

In September, soon after the Times Publishing Company sold the venerable Congressional Quarterly to The Economist Group, the new owners... More

Working at Home in Pajamas Sounds A Lot Like Being Laid Off

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 2, 2010 at 12:18 PM

After reporting on the phenomenon of start-ups as virtual workplaces, telecommuting, the rise of the four-day work-week and other cost... More

Disastrous Comparisons

Haiti is not New Orleans

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 20, 2010 at 03:10 PM

Last week, as the story about the earthquake in Haiti became the story of the relief effort in Haiti, opinion... More

Most Confusing Headline Of The Week

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 19, 2010 at 08:58 AM

In an effort to cram in all the sordid details of a terrible crime, The Daily News gives us this... More

The Haitian Times Heads to Haiti

Brooklyn-based paper ramps up its coverage of the quake

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 14, 2010 at 02:06 PM

Last night, as he raced down the Van Wyck Expressway toward Kennedy Airport, en route to Haiti with a team... More

A Tasty Morsel

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM

Just a week after the New York Times cafeteria was closed down for a day after several employees reported food... More

Early Earthquake Coverage Roundup

News outlets cover the Haitian earthquake without actually being in Haiti

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 13, 2010 at 05:12 PM

Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti poses a vexing question for journalists and readers everywhere: If a disaster happens in an under-reported... More

Smashing the Tablets

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM

Jeff Bercovici, media industry reporter for AOL's DailyFinance blog, writing here for the New York Observer, takes aim at the... More

The Journalist Father and the Soldier Son

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 4, 2010 at 04:05 PM

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel recently ran a notable series of dispatches from Afghanistan called "A Father's Journey; Searching For Answers... More

gov.sarah@yahoo.com

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 4, 2010 at 02:43 PM

The Alaska Dispatch, an online news magazine launched last August, has published the first of a two part-er on former... More

Of Journalism and Superheroes

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 4, 2010 at 02:07 PM

California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, is the latest recipient of Knight Foundation money to go... More

Best of 2009: Alexandra Fenwick

Fenwick picks her top stories from 2009

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jan 4, 2010 at 08:00 AM

My two-part interview in November with the former New York Times Shanghai bureau chief, Howard French, on misguided press coverage... More