Dispatches From Across the Pond

By Katia Bachko   Dec 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM

And now for something completely British: wise, heartfelt reflections on the demise of Woolworths in the U.K. from two ladies... More

Woes of Washington

Bureau shutdowns do matter

By Katia Bachko   Dec 19, 2008 at 11:22 AM

In a front-page piece yesterday, The New York Times’s Richard Pérez-Peña examines how newspapers are cutting staff in Washington, D.C.—just... More

Office Envy

By Katia Bachko   Dec 17, 2008 at 01:54 PM

Get a load of the Guardian's new digs. They've got lots of colours: yellow couches and magenta arm chairs. Looks... More

Guardian in Afghanistan

By Katia Bachko   Dec 17, 2008 at 01:28 PM

The Guardian has a moving dispatch and video about civilian casualties of U.S. and NATO air strikes in Afghanistan. In... More

Making Connections

How the troop surge hurt the Iraqi justice system

By Katia Bachko   Dec 16, 2008 at 04:08 PM

In the course of the presidential campaign, the troop surge in Iraq became a rhetorical weapon hurled back and forth... More

Buckley’s Best

By Katia Bachko   Dec 16, 2008 at 11:45 AM

Ten months after the death of William F. Buckley, The New York Times remembers the conservative thinker's predilection for the... More

Truncated Thoughts

By Katia Bachko   Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 PM

Sometimes technology is a vexing demon: The homepage of the Chicago Sun-Times has a rotating News Alert box that teases... More

Voices of Chicago

How the Windy City’s papers and blogs are keeping up with the Blagojevich story

By Katia Bachko   Dec 9, 2008 at 07:43 PM

When a local story—your state’s governor gets arrested for corruption, say—goes national, all eyes turn to the hometown publications for... More

No More Questions

A punctuation suggestion for Bob Herbert

By Katia Bachko   Dec 2, 2008 at 05:33 PM

Here’s the thing about questions. They can be mere requests for information, or they can serve to cast doubt. In... More

Subscribe, Get Happy

By Katia Bachko   Nov 21, 2008 at 03:55 PM

Some ready-made advertising copy for newspapers hoping to grow circulations: Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to... More

Face of Foreclosure

By Katia Bachko   Nov 17, 2008 at 01:35 PM

Kudos to The New Yorker's Peter Boyer for going behind the headlines of the Addie Polk (the 90-year-old woman who... More

Recommended Radio

By Katia Bachko   Nov 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM

If you've never listened to WNYC's Radiolab, today is a good day to get on the bandwagon because the new... More

Annie, Get Your Gun

The Chicago Tribune makes a mountain out of a molehill

By Katia Bachko   Nov 12, 2008 at 02:32 PM

Let’s face it, trend stories are notoriously tricky. They start off with an innocent hunch, and then before you know... More

Presidential Comparisons

Which president does Obama remind you of?

By Katia Bachko   Nov 12, 2008 at 08:24 AM

Barack Obama may have said that he doesn’t “look” like any of the presidents on dollar bills, but that hasn’t... More