Month: July 2008

  • The very model of …

    As newspapers try to reinvent themselves and find new models for success, here’s a thought: Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. – George E.P. Box That’s worth remembering. We can’t wait for the perfect model, just some useful ones. (via Alexander Kjerulf)

  • When the best “coverage” is a link

    The twin pieces Scott Karp and I did for the summer edition of Nieman Reports on “link journalism” and political coverage are now online. The printed mag came out a few weeks ago.

  • A snapshot of change in newsrooms

    Amidst the doom and gloom over the newspaper industry, a refashioning is taking place in newsrooms that a majority of editors believe is improving their product even as revenues to support newsrooms, among other things, are declining. And the audience the newsroom is reaching is at an all-time high. Those are a couple takeaways from…