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 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.
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 [...]
Sep 29th, 2008
For some reason, the NYT decided to re-report an entire “This American Life” piece on the subprime mortgage meltdown that aired way back in May. Why they didn’t just link to the TAL story (which was actually really good) and say the producers are working on a follow-up report to be broadcast next week, I [...]
Sep 11th, 2008
Normally I can’t deal with David Leonhardt (I still get sort of angry when I think about the 2005 “Class Matters” series in the Times and how terrible it was) so it took me awhile to get around to reading the NYT mag story on Barack Obama’s views on the economy. Long, but well worth [...]
May 12th, 2008
This New York Times story on Stanford artificial intelligence professor Daphne Koller is more than a week old, but someone just forwarded it to me, and I can’t resist. Here are the first few grafs: Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees [...]