Articles

A Reporter Is Fired for Writing a Weblog

He wonders whether there is ‘a place for Weblogs in the Fourth Estate firmament.’

Contemplating the Relevancy of Age and Race

‘My youth and race have been assets to my journalism during my budding career.’

A Racially Motivated Murder Leads to a Uniquely Reported Documentary

Whites interviewed whites. Blacks interviewed blacks. The stories came together.

Racial Reverberations in Newsrooms After Jayson Blair

‘The coverage of the scandal showed once again that African Americans are still not allowed to be seen as individuals when they fail.’

Reflecting on a Different Era in Political Journalism

Scotty Reston ‘and his peers felt comfortable making those choices based on their sense of what was best for the nation.’

Weblogs: A Road Back to Basics

‘Weblogs will not save journalism as we know it. However, they might end up improving journalism as we know it.’

The Infectious Desire to Be Linked in the Blogosphere

‘Weblogs offer journalists tangible ways to achieve that Number One feeling.’

Weblogs and Journalism: Do They Connect?

‘… the vast majority of Weblogs do not provide original reporting— for me, the heart of all journalism.’

Journalism’s ‘Normal Accidents’

By exploring theories about how organizations fail, a journalist understands better what is happening in newsrooms and why.

Fall 2003: Journalist’s Trade Introduction

At a time when access to the high-speed Internet is getting easier and do-it-yourself publishing software abounds, Weblogs are cyberspace’s quick-moving, multilinked, interactive venues of choice for millions of people…