It’s hard to really take in, after all these years, that most people have no memory of the day. The majority of people in the world were either not born, or no...

You might have noticed, it’s not a super fun time to be in the publishing industry, especially if you’re trying to do journalism. The years-long drumbeat of ba...

Evan Ratliff is a Wired journalist who became a startup founder, creating The Atavist to help longform writers profit from their own work instead of selling it...

Oh, there’s been lots of chatter on the Internet this week! Where all did our conversations show up? Well, I’ll tell you. Pegged to the release of Jessica...

In a remarkably fast evolution from what-if rumination on a blog to cutting-edge news dissemination, Alex Kerin’s idea last year of how to use Twitter to sha...

Here are some articles that have recently gotten attention amongst media obsessives. They are all fundamentally flawed: A list of the Top 25 newspapers on...

I’m not a Democrat; I don’t much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need...

Michael Arrington. Dave Winer. Tim O’Reilly. Jason Calacanis. Add a few names of your own. Within the navel-gazing little corner of the tech world that I inh...

I’ve been putting a lot of speculative ideas out lately; It’s nice to see some healthy (and respectful) criticism from people who are skeptical about what I’m...

Jay Smooth, “ Please stop calling everyone and their mother ‘The First Rapper’ “: U-Roy may be one of rap’s predecessors, and among the influences that lai...

Worth noting: Both independent bloggers on the web and the Associated Press are in the news this week for asking for appropriate credit for their work when it’...

People who are into journalism and newspapers and the web and the death of print have been all a-twitter over the NY Times story today about the triCityNews...

I think one of the biggest reasons many great writers go into journalism is for the chance to sneak little wisecracks in, with the hope their editors will indu...

From this New York Times story on proper use of a semicolon in subway signage: David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer who taunted police and the p...

It looks like I wasn’t the only one having a Gawker reckoning ; A remarkable post revealed that both Emily Gould and Choire Sicha are leaving the site. (Tha...

I’ve been doing a good bit of speaking lately, and have some more coming up, so let me share it with you if you’re interested. I was flattered to have my...

I’ve had the chance to follow Gawker Media since before it launched, really, and so it’s been interesting to see a couple of items pop up recently about the di...

In his post this weekend , Rex Sorgatz points out that “mainstream media is hard”. It’s a truth I know firsthand — I used to work both in the music industry a...

The New York Times is removing the payment barrier from its TimesSelect content. Hooray! I pundified* incorrectly about this two years ago when they laun...

Corey Spring has broken the details of a story that no one in traditional journalism had figured out yet. Wrestler Chris Benoit’s murder-suicide seemed to ha...

The gist: A lighthearted unscientific poll that was created as a PR ploy for a tech company is quickly evolving into a “real” news story, being treated as fa...

I hate the abbreviation “MSM”. It’s almost always used by those who are lacking in perspective. We’re all either too lazy to actually differentiate between the...

In case it isn’t obvious enough by now, contemporary newspapers should be thinking of information presentation in the context of applications, not just as docu...

One of the great, definitive abbreviations for the social web is TL;DR. It stands for too long; didn’t read , and epitomizes the short-attention-span crowd, t...

I’m not much of a sports fan, much less a student of sports journalism. But I know petty bitchiness when I see it, and I figure it’s worth identifying its trai...

There’s been a lot of interesting writing about the evolution of the newspaper industry lately, especially in the face of the rising popularity of social media...

Jason linked to a great Ben McGrath story in the New Yorker, but I was bit bothered by some of the flippantly dismissive stuff in the article. The piece is...

I nominate Chris Anderson for best day ever. A hit book on its first day out ( my review got a nice nod ), a featured blog on TypePad (and you get a co...

These days, I think people in traditional media outlets are writing stories just so they’ll get linked on particular blogs. John Cook trumping up a fuss in...

Mr. Henninger, I had the good fortune to review your column , in which you express, at length and in some detail, your extreme distaste for people publish...

One of my recurrent sources of frustration with my fellow geeks is that most are just plain lousy at convincing others to try technologies. It’s only because...

Thanks to Matt for pointing out some wildly irresponsible journalism . I’m always amazed that editors go with these stories (and write these kinds of headline...

Once you’ve reviewed the guide to Beck and Scientology for journalists and fans , it becomes clear why he disses prescription drugs in his (otherwise excellen...

Dave Morgan of Tacoda provides a detailed overview in MediaPost of how newspapers are getting trounced by online classifieds. The most dramatic change is not...

So, the New York Times announced that they’re moving some content behind a paywall , and of course the chorus of “oh noes!” overshadowed any other messages th...

More proof that the New York Times is the best paper in the world: A Fake Michael Jackson’s Big Break: A Fake Trial . This important piece of journalism cover...

I find it kinda cool that today I was in the New York Times talking about the business potential of weblogs and today the New York Times became the biggest...

I wasn’t at the conference, so I can’t comment on the specifics that Jack Shafer references, but I’m finding it hard to disagree with anything that’s written i...

Okay, not President, but Editor in Chief. Wired News (the online arm, not the print magazine) is looking to hire a new EiC . I think they should hire Andy Ba...

Tom Watson’s take on Dan Rather’s resignation seems exactly right to me. Be careful the gloating you do and the negativity you celebrate, because they’ll be...

I am boundlessly amused that the "bloggers fact-checking the Eye’s ass" circle-jerk has reached its nadir: Courtesy of Poynter.org , two thousand an...

Looks like even the New York Times isn’t immune from getting into the pointless flame wars and uncivil behavior. Check out Jeff Jarvis’ post today about how...

The Village Voice’s Best of New York 2004 is up, and it seems like the best one in years. People who haven’t worked in the publishing industry (or haven’t wo...

How come Slashdot talks about Google launching a browser when the New York Post writes about it when the Post story itself quotes Jason himself ? For all...

Two’s a trend: See Matt Haughey and Nick Denton both frustrated by media coming at them for quotes on stories that seem to have predetermined agendas. I’...

Making the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch Blogdex as this link rises, I’m actually going to try to make a Journalism Request: As men...

[ Hint: This isn’t funny unless you read it in an Andy Rooney voice.] Did you ever notice how some people just like to complain on the Internet? I hear a lo...

So Gawker is finally live. I’ve been waiting to post a link until everyone else could read it, but it’s already so much better than it has any reason to be....

A scant three months later than I intended, today I launch my newest project: magazine . It’s an idea that I’ve been refining for almost a year, but I didn’...

There’s a few things we’ve been too polite to point out to you, but it’s time to set a few things straight. I would like you to know that idiotarian is not a...

Unsurprisingly, I read it on Media News within a few minutes of getting it in my inbox. Ah, technology....

The Memory Hole tries to shine light on stories that haven’t gotten enough play....

Derek asserts , “What’s the difference between a blogger and a journalist? Easy: A blogger can afford to say what they really think, a journalist has to keep...

Doing what weblogs do best, bringing a personal voice to public events: One of the two weblogs at the Providence Journal , Subterranean Homepage News , has p...

With the announcement of the New York Sun launching its daily broadsheet into an already-overcrowded market, parroting the same few news stories ad nauseum,...

Another reason weblogs aren’t journalism: They’re sometimes better sourced . Laura is just kicking ass too thoroughly lately....

More discussion on weblogs vs. journalism over at Jason’s site, but that topic bores me. More interesting is where the content and networked nature of weblog...

Says Michael Sippey : after reading two multi-thousand word articles… i was reminded again (um, duh) just how radically different great journalism is from...

I don’t generally believe in awards unless they pay me money, but I sure am happy for my friends when they win them. So, congratulations to all my co-workers w...

The Morning News has a roundtable on writing for the web . It’s quite good....

This narrated photo essay of a western journalist’s trip through Pakistan and Afghanistan was moving enough to make me break my self-imposed rule of not keep...

Based on his Release 1.0 article, Kevin Werbach says , "[T]he boundaries between committed amateurs and working journalists may be difficult to determi...

After seeing this request for contributors , I checked out Today on the Subway , which may grow into a natural sister site to the upcoming New York Stories...

My October 12 ’99 peeve was a short, ineloquent attempt at conveying the message conveyed by this essay . And though I already emailed her to compliment on...

Does anyone know why Jesse Berst left Anchordesk ? I imagine it’s because of all his other publications and stuff he does, but still… seems weird the way ther...

Just another reason to like Brill’s Content is this excellent package on the Mega-Media companies . It’s terrifying to read, but an excellent example of wh...