Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It could represent a seismic change for both the publishing industry and for the media company itself. Mark Thompson, President and CEO, The New York Times Company. Photo: Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images Wednesday morning, in what marks a tectonic shift in the publishing industry, the New York Times is expected to officially begin a long-awaited partnership with…
As of mid-April, when a Pentagon flack announced it in Kiev, and as barely reported in American media, U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. Now there is a lead I have long dreaded writing but suspected from the first that one day I would. Do not take a moment to think about this….
When he joined Vocativ, Gittrich told Poynter he planned to grow the newsroom between 25 and 30 percent this year; he later announced that expansion would be focused around coverage of national security, technology, gender, culture, criminal justice and real-time news. Capital New York reported in February that Vocativ laid off about eight staffers in…
Last May, the first women to edit the New York Times and Le Monde were very publicly forced out of their jobs within a few hours of each other. What followed was perhaps just as surprising as the events themselves: a viral national debate about a previously little-noted problem, the incredible paucity of women running…
At age 21, I was handed control of a million-dollar company with more than 250 employees when I was named editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the independent student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The only reason I ever came to the University of North Carolina was to work for…
It’s dueling MLK quote season again. Both sides are making accusations of selective reading at the other, and given that many people on either side have probably read very little of his words that don’t appear on a poster, both sets of accusations are perennially accurate. We might make a policy of saying that if…
Feb. 3, 2013 (Patrick Smith/Getty) On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, the Baltimore Ravens won the NFL Super Bowl game against the San Francisco 49ers. Fans went wild and took to the streets of Baltimore in “celebrations” and “victory riots.” They were called “rowdy fans” who took “their celebrations too far” by local Baltimore CBS news….
Unrest in Baltimore, like any other dramatic event these days, created a surge of activity on social media. In the age of the selfie and ubiquitous cameras, many people have become compulsive chroniclers of all their activities — sometimes unwisely so. Reactions ranged from shock and disgust to disbelief and amusement when a series of images started…
“The Washington press corps is like that big extended family with a terrible secret that cannot be confronted because everyone knows how bad it would be if the discussion ever got real.” Have you ever come to know members of a family who collaborate in staying silent about something bad that happened in the past,…
Have you heard the latest absolutely scandalous DC media gossip? It seems that some less than upstanding publicity hounds attempted to sully the august White House Correspondents Dinner event with corporate whoredom. Can you imagine? The century-old White House Correspondents Association does not produce the annual White House Correspondents Dinner as some venue for undercover…