Blogs and the Los Angeles Times race to cover today’s earthquake

Minority journalists (and those covering them) over-question the ethics of cheering for Obama

Scrubbing the gloss off of diversity coverage

A conversation with an author of the LAT’s "Countdown to Crawford" blog

Stale, familiar personality profiles won’t save glossy mags

Why candidates still talk about "winning" wars

Google’s new video-search gadget not yet a boon to reporters, but it will be

AP’s "awkward" article on the candidates’ Hispanic outreach efforts

The Detroit Free Press lets Sen. McCain talk (lots) for himself in its coverage of his speech on the economy at Bayloff Stamped Products in Michigan yesterday. Reading like a transcript of the exchange between McCain and his audience, it underscores the need for local media to challenge the candidates’ sound bytes and perform more […]