This month's Sidney winner is on the downsizing of journalists and how what was once a middle-class job is now an itinerant job that is emblematic of the New Gilded Age economy. From 2007-2015 the number of U.S. journalists at daily papers dropped from 55,000...
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Tomorrow, Gawker staffers vote on whether to form a union. This has been really interesting to watch play out because the company has allowed its writers to debate the issue.
This certainly makes one feel bad about the future of journalism. One of today’s Pulitzer winners for local reporting isn’t actually a reporter anymore. The Daily Breeze’s Rob Kuznia won.
The New York Times is replacing the retiring Stephen Greenhouse on its labor beat with.....Noam Scheiber. Who is an OK reporter but when has he had anything interesting to say about unions? Does he even really care about unions per se? Has he walked a...
The great journalist has passed. It's also a good time to replay his classic obituary of Christopher Hitchens.
I can see why presidential campaigns would want to approve the quotes the media uses in its stories. I think it is cowardly and awful of the media to allow.
(1) What are the odds that this encounter As we say goodbye to Elizabeth Taylor, I’m hoping she knew this: We were never out to stalk you — we were really there to celebrate you. In early 1992, I decided to leave Los Angeles for...
Glenn Greenwald's observations about how, in the context of the Wikileaks story, the usual symbiotic relationship between our government and Big Media is moving toward something like organic union reminded.
Just adding a couple of thoughts to Rob and Scott's comments on the Yglesias post on the absurd anti-incentives for political scientists to engage in public intellectual work. First of.
Someone recently recommended Tom Bissell's incineration of Robert Kaplan's literary [sic] reputation, and I can now heartily second that recommendation. For my own part, I was of the opinion that Kaplan could account for two of the most embarrassing articles ever to appear in the...
Steve M. has a nice catch on the cavernously stupid notion that Barack Obama might not have enough body fat -- acquired from gobbling seals and rummaging the ice pack.
The NY Times has unveiled "Kristen." I have to say, the decision to reveal her identity publicly makes me somewhat uncomfortable -- she will now be branded as the woman.