Online Journalism Archive

I was going to write today about Bill Marimow’s dramatic ouster from the editorship of the Philadelphia Inquirer. But then I came across an item concerning people who are probably much less comfortably situated to cope with job loss than Marimow, and much less likely to have high-powered lawyers suing to bring them back. According

If we’re going to Save Journalism, it will be helpful to figure out exactly what we’re trying to save. I was reminded of one of the key elements when listening to a recent episode of “This American Life.” Michael Lewis reported on … a man named Emir Kamenica, whose path to college started with fleeing

News is a fungible commodity. That is to say: News of the sort provided by daily metro newspapers consists in large part of information that readers can easily replace with similar or identical information obtained elsewhere. This has dire implications for many of the models for saving newspapers. Let’s look at a common counterargument: Newspapers

I can’t take all the credit for the Cleveland Indians’ remarkable late-season playoff run;  I’m sure their players and coaches had a little to do with it. But I’m sure that they were inspired by a desire to boost the team’s rating on The Plain Dealer/cleveland.com Believe-O-Meter: The story of the meter, in brief: For

I spent the last few days reading over many pieces of narrative non-fiction, to talk to a creative writing workshop about the mutually parasitic relationship between literature and journalism. I found myself stumbling over the same things, mostly in newspaper narratives. 1. Dialogues with the unseen, unheard extra character You’re used to filtering your interviews