Category: Journalism

  • Blogger gets the final say

    I mentioned a week or so ago that my partner, Briggs Nisbet, was discovered by the story editor of the New York Times magazine on the basis of the garden-related weblog, True Dirt that she cowrites with Richard Frankel. We were visiting Rich and Martha over the weekend and Briggs flipped through the Sunday Magazine…

  • Bloggers as freelance ombudspeople

    Mark Glazer reports on the surprising responsiveness of some newspapers to corrections and complaints from webloggers in OJR article: To Their Surprise, Bloggers Are Force for Change in Big Media.

  • A cinderella story

    I’m in San Luis Obispo (SLO) this morning and we just bought up all the Sunday New York Timeses in town (well, not really). I’m posting from SLO Perk’s Internet terminals. I’ll tell the full story when I have more time and when it wouldn’t be so antisocial in the real world, but long story…

  • The genie's out of the bottle

    I’m blogging tonight’s Berkeley panel (by Jove, Paul Grabowicz has done it again!) over at The Power of Many and I’ve posted a bunch of my usual blurry photos as well.

  • Halley Suitt, Worthwhile blogmistress

    I missed this announcement until I saw a link to it from Susan Mernit’s Navigating the Info Jungle (that’s what I get for catching a cold and catching up on most blogs in one- or two-week chunks): Halley Suitt of the marvelous Halley’s Comment blog is involved in starting a new work-positive magazine called Worthwhile…

  • MediaMorphosis conference blog and feedpaper

    The American Press Institute has something called the Media Center and this entity is currently hosting a conference called MediaMorphosis. Susan Mernit is running a conference blog for the conference called morph and the conference’s home page also includes a link to a custom Feedster Mediamorphosis Conference Feedpaper on-the-fly aggregration of any references to the…