Archive for January, 2008

AP photographers are your friends

By Phillip • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: News

From here.



Farewell to print, Wired Journalists

By Phillip • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: News, general, internet, newspaper

Hrmm. Looks like I was being conservative when I predicted the New York Times would go web-only in 30 years.
According to the Editor’s Weblog:
A [...]



The downfall of the paper

By Phillip • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: News, internet, newspaper, print

I’m sick of people bemoaning the downfall of journalism. We’re in one of the most exciting periods in the history of news since the invention of the printing press. Once the Internet shake-up settles down, journalism will be forever changed and we’ll wonder (even more than already) how we ever lived before.
The latest doom-sayer is [...]



O’Shea: Leave Britney alone!

By Phillip • Jan 22nd, 2008 • Category: Featured, newspaper

James O’Shea, editor of the Los Angeles Times, was fired earlier this week. Important because this is the third editor the Times has been through in the past three years, and because O’Shea left with some biting remarks about how the LA Times is run, and about the newspaper industry in general. Everyone seems [...]



In defense of Britney Spears coverage

By Phillip • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Featured, general, internet, newspaper

“Now and for the foreseeable future, virtually everything involving Britney is a big deal,” Frank Baker, the [AP's] Los Angeles assistant bureau chief, wrote on Tuesday morning.
I was talking (arguing) with a friend of mine the other day about the goals of newspapers, and how they decide what is important. He was saying that important [...]