Archive for category: Journalism

What exactly is Scott Schuman’s business?    (2011.10.20)

Why didn’t Imran Ahmed ask Scott Schuman anything remotely factual or pointed about the “business” of Schuman’s Weblog, the Sartorialist?

Customers ‘pay a steep price premium for every Apple product they buy’    (2011.10.11)

Did you know that customers “pay a steep price premium for every Apple product they buy”? Well, Roger Martin thinks so. No “moron” he

Defamation law for bloggers: Don’t be in a rush    (2011.10.11)

A recent court case seriously lowers the bar on how much effort a journalist has to put into contacting a source for comment to avoid a defamation ruling

Katrina Onstad, half-right once again    (2011.10.11)

Katrina Onstad gets it right about Ikea’s Manland, then goes off on a tangent about women CEOs and MPs

‘Old-line media’ can’t even classify today’s news    (2011.10.10)

Roger Black lists news categories in the order in which 20th-century media saw them

Stieg Larsson, journalist    (2011.10.08)

Stieg Larsson’s strict moral code rings true to me despite surface dissimilarities

“Gay news blogs” are a losing venture    (2011.10.07)

“Gay news blogs” are a losing venture, Nieman Labs shows, to protests from their owners

‘A person at risk of becoming a journalist’    (2011.09.28)

“A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist”