Monthly Archive:: June 2015
30 Jun 2015
Why The Plain Dealer will miss having Thom Fladung around
The set of all great managers and the set of all newsroom managers have a fairly small area of intersection, in my experience. One of the great ones is leaving, so that intersection is getting even smaller. Thom Fladung returned home to Northeast Ohio as managing editor of The Plain Dealer in 2011. I worked
28 Jun 2015
Snopes.com deserves a Pulitzer: True
Last week was a great time for news — fake news, that is. Misinformation is spreading faster than measles in a colony of anti-vaccine nudists, so the time has come for something long overdue: a Pulitzer for Snopes.com. This weekend Jim Romenesko pointed to nytimes.com.co, which had several of my Facebook friends fooled with claims
27 Jun 2015
This is how easily visual data can mislead
After the Supreme Court decision declaring bans on gay marriage unconstitutional, Bloomberg Business dusted off a pretty example of visual data journalism. Which sucks. Data journalism done well is powerful. Intelligent visual display of that data often can tell a story better than plain words. As with any form of journalism, though, decisions about what