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Cities without Newspapers: as the economic noose tightens, the notion of big cities without local dailies seems a real possibility. What would the impact be on civic life? And what might emerge to fill the gap?
This spring, Princeton economist Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and his colleague Miguel Garrido issued a paper of vital importance to print journalists...
American Journalism Review, 06/01/09 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
Justice delayed: many in the media jettisoned caution—and the presumption of innocence—in their coverage of an alleged rape by Duke lacrosse players, and were too slow to correct the record as the case unraveled. But some journalists distinguish
As Reade Seligmann choked back tears on the witness stand, the 21-year-old Duke University lacrosse player dubbed "Flustered" by teammates was...
American Journalism Review, 08/01/07 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
What the mainstream media can learn from Jon Stewart: no, not to be funny and snarky, but to be bold and to do a better job of cutting through the fog
When Hub Brown's students first told him they loved "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and sometimes even relied on it for news, he was, as any...
American Journalism Review, 06/01/07 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
Finding a niche: is there a role for the weekly newsmagazines and their Web sites in a 24-7 news environment?
When Edward R. McCarrick, the president and worldwide publisher of Time magazine, says the genesis for his weekly's new direction came when "I went...
American Journalism Review, 04/01/07 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
Challenging times
Protected by family ownership, the New York Times Co. plots its future without retreating from ambitious journalism at its flagship paper, despite...
American Journalism Review, 02/01/07 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
Tribune tribulations: when the Tribune Co. acquired Times Mirror in 2000, it promised dazzling returns from the the synergy between its newspapers and television stations in major markets. Here's why those bold dreams haven't been realized
Howard Schneider resigned as Newsday's editor two years ago, but he hasn't lost his zest for a story. Forty minutes into an expansive interview...
American Journalism Review, 12/01/06 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
Judgment calls: how top editors decide whether to publish national security stories based on classified information
The outcry over decisions by major newspapers to disclose the Bush administration's secret monitoring of international banking transactions was...
American Journalism Review, 10/01/06 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
Hold that obit: the nightly network newscasts, often depicted as passe, face the future with a trio of new anchors and bold plans for the wireless world
If, in the annals of conventional wisdom, newspapers are dinosaurs doomed to extinction, then the nightly newscasts are wooly mammoths lumbering...
American Journalism Review, 08/01/06 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
Life with Brian: when it came to dealing with newspapers, PR man Brian Tierney was known as a bare-knuckled advocate who would bully and intimidate if that's what it took to get his way. Now he's the CEO of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. Rather
Brian P. Tierney, the head of an investors group that in June purchased the whipsawed Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News,...
American Journalism Review, 08/01/06 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication -
"This is why I do this in the first place"
When Hurricane Katrina ripped through Mississippi last August, the journalists of Gulfport's Sun Herald confronted the misery in their lives and in...
American Journalism Review, 06/01/06 by Rachel Smolkin · More from publication
