Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Like most newly-published authors, Andrew Groen has spent a lot of time lately doing talks and trying to get the word out about his new project. He’s travelled to popular destinations, and done his best to convince people to buy his history book. The difference is that Groen isn’t traveling the real world; instead, he’s…
Some time ago, I was invited to sit on a journalism panel and speak to Temple University grad students in journalism about the changes in the profession. The discussion focused on 1) the demise of newspapers, 2) online vs. traditional journalism and the most important question of all: Is a career in journalism worth it?…
Photo Gay Talese, whose comments on female writers at a conference in Boston put him in an unfamiliar forum — on Twitter. Credit Robin Marchant/Getty Images On Friday, April 1, the 84-year-old writer Gay Talese made his way from New York to Boston, where he was scheduled to speak at Boston University’s “Power of Narrative”…
NYT executive editor Dean Baquet responds to “Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer“: “We published a story yesterday about controversial remarks made by the writer Gay Talese concerning female journalists at a conference at Boston University. The story also recounted an exchange between Talese and Nikole Hannah-Jones, a keynote speaker at the conference and…
PENNSYLVANIA— A 9-year-old reporter who wrote about a suspected murder in her small Pennsylvania town is defending herself after some locals lashed out about a young girl covering violent crimes. Hilde Kate Lysiak got a tip Saturday afternoon about something untoward happening on 9th street in Selinsgrove, about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia. She went…
Making new homes Just when you’re starting to feel that there’s no hope, something good seems to fall out of nowhere and hit you, reminding you of how important you are. The day we announced we needed to stop publishing was an extremely low point for me. Everything sort of imploded. One minute I was…
The public hates the press. The press hates the public. We get it. Fair enough. We can only get the faintest glimmer of love from college kids, even. http://gawker.com/public-trust-i… A new Gallup poll of US college students is out, commissioned purely with the intent of catching college kids in some sort of stupid beliefs and…
The “Panama Papers” are being called the largest ever leak of secret data, and articles about the offshore bank accounts of bigwigs worldwide — developed by a global consortium of journalists — began appearing Sunday afternoon. They burst into the Sunday afternoon news lull, getting huge play in media outlets around the world and in…
A quiet spring weekend was suddenly shattered on Sunday when news of the “Panama Papers” investigation broke. The massive international project involved approximately 400 journalists across 75 countries, plowing through roughly 11.5 million documents from a secretive Panamanian law firm specializing in creating offshore holding companies. The investigation took more than a year, commencing after…
Starting Wednesday, about 95 percent of content the British newspaper The Telegraph publishes online will flow through a new content management system — one that it developed in-house through a collaboration between its product team and the newsroom, aimed at simplifying its digital publishing process. “Our old content management system is about 10 years old…