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The Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) just released their fourth annual report on the State of the News Media, a comprehensive study on the status of American journalism.
Its goal is to gather in one place as much data as possible about all the major sectors of journalism, to identify trends, mark key indicators, […]
Ira Glass from This American Life offers a multiple part series on the art of storytelling. Here’s part 1, and you can scroll down for parts 2-4.
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Charlierose.com: I’m looking forward to the new site.
The new CharlieRose.com will offerpreview clips and full length streams of thousands of Charlie’s interviews, downloads, background on guests, program information, and much more.
For now, you can find tons of full length episodes on Google Video.
The Journal has been teasing the January 2nd launch of the redesign of the print edition for some time now. Check out the authoritative Reader’s Guide (pdf) to all the new changes. From the always informative Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals.
In related news, the entire WSJ.com site is free to explore today.
The Wall Street Journal Weekend edition features a great piece on this 1979 photograph that has been anonymously attributed until now.
TEHRAN — On Aug. 27, 1979, two parallel lines of 11 men formed on a field of dry dirt in Sanandaj, Iran. One group wore blindfolds. The other held rifles. The command came in Farsi […]
Listening to the Weakerthans - This is one of my favorite pieces on music. Grab some coffee, sit down, and enjoy:
It’s the deepest relationship you can have with a place, I think: hating it and staying. It’s the flip side of officially sanctioned civic pride—something I’d seen plenty of, living in Toronto— which always […]
The Sunday NYTimes looks at the newspaper industry and weighs the options of staying public or going private:
The underlying theme in Tribune’s unraveling is that in a time of technological transition, the two publics that are served by many of the nation’s newspapers are no longer getting along so well. One is the public market […]
More on the ongoing discussion about the future of newspapers in an interesting piece from Time:
I’m not sure what that new form will look like. But it might resemble the better British papers today (such as the one I work for, the Guardian). The Brits have never bought into the American separation of reporting […]
The majority of online newspaper sites out there are a pain to use, navigate, and access on a regular basis, especially the sites of college newspapers. Todd Zeigler suggests 9 Ways for Newspapers to Improve their websites.
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