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Major papers’ longform meltdown
Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jan 17, 2013 at 03:11 PM
No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider... More
The Importance of Energy Reporters
A Q&A with the NYT’s Matthew Wald about Japan’s nuclear crisis
By Cristine Russell Apr 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters. Unfortunately,... More
“The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”
Four NYT journalists captured in Libya speak at Columbia
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 1, 2011 at 09:04 AM
On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter... More
“There is no ‘The Tea Party’”
East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement
By Joel Meares Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los... More
‘Hi, Mark!’
The Newspaper Guild welcomes The New York Times’s new CEO
By Sara Morrison Oct 22, 2012 at 06:20 PM
Mark Thompson began work today as the new CEO of The New York Times, and the Newspaper Guild was there... More
NYT Announces Paywall Details, In Effect March 28
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM
After months of speculation and anticipation from all sides of the industry, The New York Times revealed Thursday morning the... More
NYT On Why Journalists Like to Compare Presidents
Did anybody think to ask journalists?
By Joel Meares May 16, 2011 at 02:37 PM
The New York Times’s Peter Baker had a piece in Sunday’s paper dealing with an issue close to many hearts... More
NYT Photographer Moises Saman Injured in Tunisia
By Joel Meares Jan 26, 2011 at 01:54 PM
The New York Times's Lens blog reports that photographer Moises Saman was "mildly injured" on Tuesday in Tunisia when six... More
Times Has Giffords’ Impact on Arizona Senate Race
But we have to keep some perspective here
By Joel Meares Mar 31, 2011 at 12:34 PM
In some ways it feels morbid to urge caution for those envisioning a swift fairytale return to politics for... More
Times’s Act Two Profile of Assange
A revealing follow-up to The New Yorker
By Joel Meares Oct 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM
Raffi Khatchadourian’s profile of Julian Assange for The New Yorker back in June—before the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs dumps—is... More
Times’s Jill Abramson: Dog Nut, Norse Deity
The profiles are rolling in
By Joel Meares Jun 8, 2011 at 01:15 PM
Almost a week after The New York Times announced that executive editor Bill Keller was stepping down and Jill... More
Times’s Solid Report on Failed Mortgage Rescue Programs
An economic calamity and its human faces
By Joel Meares Mar 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM
A must-read A1 story in The New York Times today digs into the multi-level failings of President Obama’s foreclosure rescue... More
WaPo and Times Go Softly, Softly with Barbour
Similar profiles tell similar tales
By Joel Meares Mar 22, 2011 at 02:59 PM
Pity poor Tim Pawlenty. The day after the former Minnesota governor made a shallow splash announcing his presidential exploratory... More
A Times Story Bodes Ill for the Washington Post
An investigation shows how Kaplan used predatory tactics to get students and government money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2010 at 03:32 PM
The for-profit college business just looks worse and worse, and a New York Times investigation this morning paints a disturbing... More
A new ‘golden era’?
Nautilus is the latest in a proliferation of science-news sites
By Curtis Brainard May 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Nautilus, a new science magazine whose first issue appeared online April 29, has New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye, one... More
All thumbs, none green
Environment coverage is down at the Times, even if it wasn’t supposed to be
By Curtis Brainard Mar 19, 2013 at 06:58 AM
Two weeks ago, I excoriated The New York Times for canceling its Green blog a month after it had dismantled... More
And that’s the way it was: March 14, 1921
Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable is born in New York, NY
By Sang Ngo Mar 14, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman) was born on March 14, 1921, and grew up in Manhattan's Upper West Side. She... More
And that’s the way it was: May 10, 2006
A. M. Rosenthal, former NYT executive editor, dies in Manhattan
By The Editors May 10, 2013 at 06:49 AM
On this day seven years ago, legendary New York Times executive editor Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal died at the age... More
Audit Notes: Foreclosure Scandal, Gold Still Not a Record, Facebook Ads
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2010 at 06:11 PM
The Washington Post drops this eye-raising info from a Long Island judge who's not happy with the banks' actions in... More
Can mental healthcare curb gun violence?
Some strong coverage takes a good look at that question, and reflects a shift in how we discuss mental illness
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Feb 1, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In another lifetime, I did PR for Big Pharma and flacked for some of the biggest names in academic medicine... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
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