But will people pay for it? I don’t know. But here’s one hint, as of about 8:30 this morning:
If you did a time-motion study, I doubt that story pays for itself, strictly speaking. But in a broader sense, I bet it does.
The Audit
11:00 AM - December 10, 2012
News worth paying for
Looking for profit in public-interest news
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
Well put, Dean. At its best, the Washington Post cuts slantwise in a way that the NYTimes, for all of its formidable intelligence, can not or will not. There's a lot of talent still left at the Washington Post, although as you say they've applied the leeches and tried to bleed themselves to death ...
#1 Posted by Michael Powell, CJR on Tue 11 Dec 2012 at 02:54 PM
It captured the crushing despair of New Castle quite well. There is truly nothing for anyone in that horrible place.
#2 Posted by Nate, CJR on Sat 15 Dec 2012 at 11:21 PM
Nate you exaggerate. it has a large CSX freight yard.
#3 Posted by stephen e hansen, CJR on Thu 3 Jan 2013 at 12:40 AM