In the final days of 2008, a year filled with bad news about the newspaper industry, Paul Mulshine, a columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger, has penned a ringing defense of newspapers, and the reporting only they are able to do.Or…
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Too much news?
This month’s Columbia Journalism Review’s cover story by Bree Nordenson, titled Overload!, is one of the most provocative articles on the current state of the media you’re likely to see anywhere. See the full article here.Instead of bemoaning the shrinking…
Kaiser Health News Preparing to Launch
The most ambitious new journalism enterprise after the founding of ProPublica, the investigative reporting project started by Herb and Marion Sandler in 2007, is on the launch pad and about to take off.Kaiser Health News, a multi-million project of the…
Voice of San Diego Dominates in Online Newspaper Landscape
In today’s New York Times media reporter Richard Perez-Pena recognizes the significance of the VoiceofSanDiego and other on-line newspapers: “…a brand of serious, original reporting by professional journalists — the province of the traditional media, but at a much lower…
Noozhawk.com a Media Model for California?
Santa Barbara is an unlikely place for the rise of perhaps the most important on-line newspaper venture/experiment in the state. The community’s mainstream paper, the Santa Barbara News-Press has attracted national media attention — because of the war that erupted…
