Author Archive
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Cover Story
Goodbye to All That
August 31, 2007 09:00 AMThe health of a society is always best measured by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable citizens. The same test may be usefully applied to America’s beleaguered newspapers. Set against the general loss of confidence afflicting the... Continue reading
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Bio
Steve Wasserman
Steve Wasserman is a former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and is currently managing director of the New York office of the literary agency Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson, where his clients include Columbia Journalism Review. He is also book editor of www.truthdig.com. His essay is dedicated to the memory of Eugen Weber (1925-2007).
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Desks
The Audit Business
The Observatory Science
- The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
- USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- What’s the swingiest state of them all? By any measure, Colorado is at the center of the action in 2012
- The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
Behind the News The Media
Blog
The Kicker last updated: Mon 3:17 PM
- The Pulitzer Prize luncheon, storified
- A game of telephone fools the Times
- What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
- Don’t take my traditional Internet away!
- Why China ejected Melissa Chan
The Future of Media
News Startups Guide last updated: Wed 2:13 PM
- Missouri Scout Subscription-based niche political news from a stockbroker turned political junkie
- Eye on Annapolis Unadorned, up-to-the-minute news for Maryland’s capital city
