Journalist’s Trade

1. The Oregonian“The Boy Behind the Mask”To report “The Boy Behind the Mask,” Tom Hallman, Jr. spent hundreds of hours, over more than 10 months, poring over medical records, reading…

In USA Today, some of its ‘Snapshots’ have not given the full picture.

Walter Bender is the executive director of the MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Electronic Publishing Group and is a member of the laboratory’s News in the Future consortium.…

Should news organizations look for ways to better communicate their business stories to their readers, as well as to other members of the public? And, if so, how do they…

Two books hint at how and why this can and should be done.

Few words were uttered more often during this conference than “Wall Street.” What follows are edited excerpts from various sessions, all of which focus attention on the tug that Wall…

Quality can be an elusive term. It is one that conference participants struggled to explain, define and find ways to put into practice. What follows are edited excerpts that speak…

No topic received as much attention as the newspaper business. Observations were interspersed throughout the various sessions. Some of those comments are now brought together in a series of edited…

Participants had views and experiences to share about the intersection of mainstream media and the Internet. Edited excerpts of some of those comments follow.RELATED ARTICLE“Web Sites Increasingly Scoop Their Parent…

Clark Gilbert, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, studies entrepreneurship in large companies. In a recent study in which he worked with Clay Christensen, who has written about…