journalism
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The Rumpus Interview with Alexandra Kimball
Alexandra Kimball discusses a disheartening current reality: the economic ability to take one or more unpaid internships early in a journalism or writing career may be far more important than talent, insight, or work ethic.
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An Introduction To Animated GIFs
New to GIFs? Unsure of what GIFs are? There’s no need to fret! Ann Friedman has written an introduction to the art of the animated GIF at Poyntr. The article covers what exactly constitutes a GIF, where you can access them,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Hart Seely
Tom Barbash talks with author and reporter Hart Seely about winning ballgames from your couch, Donald Rumsfeld, faking sanity, and the fate of quality journalism in the online era of click chasing.
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The Rumpus Interview With Jon Carroll
Jon Carroll has written more than 8,000 columns for the San Francisco Chronicle, having become the newspaper’s star, leading voice and, essentially, its conscience.
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Whose Opinion Is Missing?
Talking Points Media reports on the deficit of female op-ed writers, citing an assessment conducted by The OpEd Project. The article quotes Katherine Lanpher, a member of the organization, who tells the website: “We are seeing that women aren’t narrating…
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R.I.P. Anthony Shadid
Yesterday, Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent, died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. His memoir, House of Stone, is to be released in just a few weeks.
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Arrested Reporters
The Awl assembles a list of the 26 reporters arrested (so far) covering Occupy Wall Street stories and reveals what they do and who they are. “Only seven of the 25 arrested are full-time employed traditional news-gathering employees. A number…
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Young Journalists in a Cut-Throat World
There’s yet another example of underpaid and undervalued journalists, this time from the campaign bus. Budget cutbacks have filled these buses with fledging reporters, in contrast to the seasoned political journalists that once occupied those very seats. Mid twenty years…
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Questioning Truth in Photos
Errol Morris, the truth-seeker/director of the documentary The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War is once again having us question the facts. His collection of essays, Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) considers our undiscerning…
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Struggling Bay Area Papers
Bay Area News Group is feeling the financial burden that is maintaining viable newspapers in this digital age. Thus, BANG is calling for some major restructuring, namely consolidating their eleven local newspapers into two regional ones and laying off 8%…
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Tom Lutz on the Missing Generation of Journalists
Tom Lutz’s recent essay for the LA Review of Books discusses the missing generation of journalists, the layoffs that have forced out some of the greatest book reviewers from their staff positions on newspaper mastheads and the diminishing of the…
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British Hacking Scandal Roundup
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the British phone hacking scandal is the lack of coverage in the US press. Among the US newspapers, the NY Times is the only one I can find which has done significant reporting on…