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Nonprofit Journalism
As founder and editor in chief of Women's eNews, a daily, Internet-based news site covering issues of particular concern to women, I found this piece shallow and poorly informed to the extreme. Pro Publica is an outcome, not a trend-setter. I founded Women's eNews in 2000 and continue as its editor in an attempt toward balancing the coverage of ...
Posted to Press Box by Rita Henley Jensen on October 9, 2009
Slate, Dragaon Slayer of CW! vs. Chicago nerds!
Slate, oh Slate, fierce critic of the “MSM!” Dragon slayer of Conventional Wisdom! Champion of journalistic integrity! Of what do you speak?Thank god for the ‘nerds’ of journalism. People like Ben Joravsky and Tom Tresser still believe in and practice investigative journalism. They ask hard questions. They even expect ...
Posted to Politics by Squeek on October 2, 2009
For-profit community journalism
Perhaps you will like what Carll Tucker and his wife, Jane Bryant Quinn, are trying to create. ''The DailyTown.com'' ''franchise'' with no upfront fees is explained at http://www.jiltedjournalists.com (click on story from home page, then scroll down.)
Posted to Press Box by bialygold on October 1, 2009
In current environment, more lessons to learn
I think there are more lessons:“The story, I quickly discovered, was a Web-based journalist's dream.” What does this mean? Do ‘web-based’ journalists hold themselves to a lower standard than their so-called MSM counterparts? Are they exempt from fact-checking stories they use? Do they have the privilege of taking stories by other journalists - ...
Posted to Prescriptions by Squeek on September 18, 2009
Really?
''...so there's no danger of journalism-that-is-good-for-you being driven off viewers' desktops.'' What?! How on earth can you come to that conclusion after managing to fill nine previous paragraphs with examples of cable editors finding the most meaningless, titillating drivel on earth? How can one come to that conclusion after just looking at ...
Posted to Press Box by thfump on September 18, 2009
Re: not edgy, not journalism.
Agreed. Mouthpiece Theater overall was a mistake. Journalists, including columnists, risk losing their perspective, good sense and credibility when they become Media Stars. The Post should have learned that from its experience with Tony Kornheiser.
Posted to Press Box by cwj2 on August 8, 2009
journalism is not the same as its media
fletc3her is spot on.As on online news editor, formerly with a print operation (got out when I saw that industry writing on the wall), it's been interesting to see the continual decline of newspapers. Papers belittle the bloggers and cry that there will be no 'real' journalism left, but the fact is most newspapers are not fully adapting and ...
Posted to Press Box by norumba on August 5, 2009
NYT coverage of "Skip" Gates...Vanish Software
Confession: rabidly routing for the newspaper team! NYT had the story about the Vanish software in Tuesday's paper - science section, I believe. Just the kind of story that gets hyped on the Web but covered in a newspaper. Same is true of the Professor Gates story. Was it front page news? Personally, I don't think so because I sense that the ...
Posted to Readme by c2hubbard on July 23, 2009
A Post salon limerick
An exclusive salon at The Post! Circulate with the publisher-host And the powers that be If you'll pay a huge fee (And if word ever leaks this is toast!) News Short n' Sweet by JFD8 http://twitter.com/JFD8
Posted to Press Box by JD8 on July 3, 2009
Re: "Journalism" vs. reporting
I do agree. I wish I could say, I agree wholeheartedly. But it is rather with a heavy heart that I do. It is not only that reporting is reduced in quantity. There has also been a shift in quality: There is a tendency to confound ''establish facts independently'' with a ''he says, she said'' stenography of people's utterances. As a reporter, you ...
Posted to Press Box by AugoKnoke on July 2, 2009

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