Charlie and Phil’s Excellent Global Adventure

Call it physics. Call it Zen. Call it journalism. As I cover the waning fortunes of legacy media and rising fortunes of start-up journalism sites, I can’t help but think of equilibrium. Maybe it’s being back on the Left Coast too long, but somehow the scales seem to be balancing. ...

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Regional Dailies Give Business Away

We can add still another franchise – business news – to those being abandoned by the daily press. I’ve seen slimming of business pages, some announced grandly, some never acknowledged but painfully obvious to newspaper readers. Once-robust sections of eight pages have trickled to six or four, ...

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Is it Time for the Times to Get Out of Local Paper Business?

You can feel the walls closing in at the new, light-filled Times building off Times Square. Consider: —America’s (the world’s?) largest newsroom is getting a major haircut. Of the current 1300 jobs, 100 will be gone soon, victim of the increasingly familiar buyout/layoff ...

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Newspaper Editing: Escape into Modern Times?

Time for newspapers to get out of the Industrial Age and into the Digital? Alan Mutter makes a great point of wretched editing excess and he’s apparently hit a good nerve in the industry, in his post, “Can Newspapers Afford Editors.” (Maybe excessive editing, no, but good ...

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