(this is a restored post; comments lost) In a comment on Ryan Sholin’s blog, Howard Owens said that when the economy comes back (God, Fannie Mae, and OPEC willing)...

Gets you what? $19 billion is the market capitalization of 10 of the major U.S. newspaper stocks. Put another way, about 1/8th the value of Google. To be clear, this is...

(this is a restored post; comments lost) Jay Rosen has been worrying about curmudgeons. I’ve developed a different attitude. I try to just ignore them and if I...

I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel discussion and Q&A session over the weekend in Washington, D.C. at a conference of the country’s public radio...

As an ink-strained wretch who has labored for decades for three of America's largest newspapers, I truly had hoped that liberal bias did not explain why the New York...

Earlier I promised to keep tabs on the listserv discussion about whether the “Newspaper Division” in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass...

The newspaper industry is at a crossroads, and a fresh report from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism confirms this beyond all doubt. ...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been lambasting the nation for wasting food--apparently the British throw out 4.1 million tons of good food each year--spending an average...

In the early 90's, and for some time afterward, the newspaper industry had an opportunity to lead in the development of online classifieds and, in a number of forums, I...

The Pew Research Center released a study focusing on USA newspapers, here are the key findings:  The majority of newspapers are now suffering cutbacks in staffing,...

Headline writing is something written about ad nauseam, especial in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) circles. But as I was reading my way through a few SEO articles, one...

This is the future of the US newspaper. Smaller staffs, emphasis on local news coverage, less foreign and national news. There are positive and negatives to the...

Jay Rosen has been worrying about curmudgeons. I’ve developed a different attitude. I try to just ignore them and if I can’t, I yell at them. The other day, I...

My Guardian column this week reprises the discussion from my post about Google as the new pressroom and then adds some thoughts about news organizations sharing...

It is old news that the sales of newspapers all over the world are dropping faster than scandals celebrities come up with. Young people prefer to rely on the Internet...

In a comment on Ryan Sholin’s blog, Howard Owens said that when the economy comes back (God, Fannie Mae, and OPEC willing) so will newspaper revenue. I agree. But I...

Feeling like I have to expand an idea out into some 3000-word treatise just adds a weight which suddenly turns the whole thing into another fucking task I have to add...

The always witless World Association of Newspapers really does it this time. In their desire to defend print — over updating and preserving journalism — they...

Well, girls, if you're out there following the American presidential campaign you'll be glad to know that The Washington Post is around to tell you that the perfect...

The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there’s no point in documenting it any longer. They will continue with their Sisyphean...