So I’m not nearly as downbeat on the blogosphere as my colleagues. It’s changing, to the point at which the very idea of blogs as a separate-and-distinct entity has pretty much gone away. But that’s a good thing. What really matters is the quality and quantity of financial discussion online. And that’s never been higher.
The Audit
06:50 AM - October 24, 2012
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Whither the econobloggers
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#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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
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Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
"robably the highest-profile blogger of five years ago who’s gone away today is Nouriel Roubini: pretty much all of his stuff is hidden behind the roubini.com paywall these days. But overall, roubini.com has more free blogs than ever"
Plus you can find ">Roubini and a bunch of the other econs on project syndicate.
#1 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Wed 24 Oct 2012 at 01:19 PM
Hah! Good one on the blog stylings that end up "I'm right and everyone else is stupid." Those soon become "I'm stupid and so are you for wasting your time here."
Why I stopped, realizing too late how stupid I'd got.
#2 Posted by Edward Ericson Jr., CJR on Wed 24 Oct 2012 at 05:16 PM
Why are you hiding this on your Reuters page?
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/10/25/ceos-self-serving-deficit-manifesto/
This beats the twitter twat detritus we cjr blog readers have been getting lately.
Where's the love, Felix?
H/t naked capitalism.
#3 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Sun 28 Oct 2012 at 05:11 PM