Fear and loathing at the Chicago Journalism Town Hall.
Feb 23rd, 2009
Fear and loathing at the Chicago Journalism Town Hall.
Jan 27th, 2009
It’s time to bid farewell to yet another national reporter covering Chicago and the Midwest, the latest in a long string of recent reductions to local bureaus.
Jan 13th, 2009
There’s a great essay in this month’s Columbia Journalism Review about what’s wrong with sports journalism and how to fix it. Gary Andrew Poole laments the disappearance of literary ambitions at the hands of speed and wow factor.
Dec 16th, 2008
So apparently during the ’20s and’30s there was a magazine like The New Yorker that was based in Chicago, but it was swept into the dustbin of history until UofC cultural historian Neil Harris stumbled upon the archives a few years back. Details about his book, released last month: While browsing the stacks of the [...]
Last week I highlighted a great piece of Bloomberg reporting on America’s billions-wasted, failed agriculture policy. Since then, the rest of the seven-part series, Recipe for Famine, has been published online. Because Bloomberg did such a poor job of presenting its series, there’s no easy way to locate all the stories. So I’ve taken the [...]
Normally, a headline like the one above would be a gross exaggeration, and it would almost never appear in a mainstream U.S. publication. But lo and behold, the actual headline of a Bloomberg story by Alan Bjerga only just barely sugarcoats the situation. As it appears online, it’s “Dead Children Linked to Aid Policy in [...]
Nov 18th, 2008
I’m glad The New York Times finally got around to writing about the many nonprofit news sites that are doing serious journalism. In a page one story, Richard Perez-Pena pretty much re-reported the article I did for Miller-McCune back in March, focusing on the Voice of San Diego, a publication that deserves all the attention [...]
Nov 7th, 2008
And now the Chicago Tribune weighs in with its take on the Deloitte trading scandal, which (unless you are as obsessed with Deloite as I am at this point) isn’t even worth reading. Sadly, Ameet Sachdev, who is (to me) the best legal reporter in Chicago — if that’s saying anything — offers only an [...]
Oct 14th, 2008
Another day, another bogus trend story in the Chicago Tribune, this time on the front page. The headline “Is College Worth It?” says it all — the sort of manufactured, fear-inducing question headline typical of the new Trib. The story is almost as disingenuous. The writer found a cocktail waitress who is making — well, [...]
The Chicago Media Future Conference
Jun 15th, 2009
Interesting gathering in Chicago last weekend about the future of news.
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