Imagine being able to rewind to the 1990s and help your news organization make key decisions — and create new habits — to help prevent a landslide of layoffs and enable the business to thrive on the Internet. That’s the … Read more
Here’s why Jonah Lehrer was wrong to recycle his words and ideas in at least 13 instances uncovered by three different people (make that four) and then by The New Yorker, which is adding Editor’s Notes to stories with … Read more
Whatever you think of the nut graph, it has certainly earned a hallowed place in the news writing hall of fame. Among its many contributions, the nut graph has liberated a generation of journalists from the arbitrary requirements of the … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Walter Middlebrook, assistant managing editor for news at The Detroit News. We used to recruit head-to-head when I was the recruiter at the Detroit Free Press. Alas, Middlebrook defeated me. … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Jennifer Bott VanderWeele, a former business reporter who has started a small book publishing venture. She once was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press.
During the chat, VanderWeele talked about being … Read more
The most significant stories we write in journalism and fiction are about life and death: the war in Afghanistan, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the anniversary of 9/11, the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan.
You don’t have to be … Read more
This week’s news about Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s baby has raised interesting questions about how news organizations have handled the identification of the woman with whom he had a child while married to Maria Shriver.
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Matthew Keys, a social media junkie who has built extensive networks in journalism, public relations and communications. Keys, known as @ProducerMatthew on Twitter, has been blogging for seven years and … Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Krista Canfield, who regularly coaches journalists on how to get the most out of LinkedIn.
Canfield, who is LinkedIn’s senior manager for corporate communications, offered tips on how to use the … Read more
Something interesting has happened since news broke that Osama bin Laden had been shot and killed. We have already received different accounts from government officials about what happened during the American raid on the compound in Pakistan.