I’ve been arguing with good friends and others for a while now about why I don’t think charity or government subsidies are the right way to “save newspapers.” There are philosophical and policy reasons to argue about, but my main point has been that only success [...] 
To those of you who continue to profess the economic crisis in the newspaper business is solely the result of stupid executives, I offer the following:
Tonight the text of President Obama's inaugural address is the most popular highlight on Yahoo News, and doubtless that's true elsewhere, as well.
Help. We're trapped in a James Bond movie.
Publish2 editor Josh Knorr has an illuminating post of the p2 blog today describing how a handful of Washington State journalists quickly home-brewed a plan to share coverage and links to stories about the flooding there.
Tools for news
I suppose most people had better things to do Christmas Eve than read newspaper and journalism blogs. Sadly, I was not among them, and couldn't restrain myself today from posting a comment on one of the latest Jeff Jarvis postings about why those of us laboring' [...] 
Packing up your office yields many a trip down memory lane. This week I talked with newsroom staff at the Sacramento Bee and shared some notes I made in 1997 about newspapers and websites. (Yes, I tend to save stuff).
The front page of the McClatchy Washington site features a video interview with Baghdad Bureau Chief Leila Fadel offering a nuanced assessment of the Iraq surge. You can find it here or click on the image below.
Dan Gillmor notes, and offers a quick introduction to, a couple of noteworthy developments at the New York Times.
I have worked for newspapers for more than 40 years now, and since my younger brother’s death a year ago, I have known that I would leave my job at McClatchy before too long. I’ve always looked forward to having second phase of my career, to [...] 
cover design from 2008 particularly inspiring. A surprising number are simply jumbled displays of bad type. Others seem predictable or clichéd.
Click image to expand. Thanks, Matt, for the pointer.
in which marketing guru Seth Godin detailed his complaints and recommendations for how the New York Times should be operating online.
Scott Karp of Publish2 has some characteristically insightful observations about web video in a new post at the Publishing 2.0 blog. I recommend the whole thing, and am particularly taken with this point he makes:
Six years after Google perfected search advertising, there has [...]
“No, sir, not a single damned new.”EXCLUSIVE: Top 30 Newspaper Sites for September
Thanks to Palin, Anchorage Daily News Crashes the List
By Jennifer Saba
NEW YORK – The Web site of the Anchorage Daily News zoomed up to make it in the list of top 30 online [...]
You can argue with the selections and the rankings in Vanity Fair's list of "the best 25 news photos." But there's no argument about how powerful these photographs remain.
e college and album-oriented FM stations, late [...] 
Here's a metaphor that ought to resonate with nearly everybody who reads this blog: Why albums used to matter. The 3:21 video comes by way of Robin Sloan at Snarkmarket, who found the key lesson to be the admonition that media should be "... [...] 
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I love nearly all the magazine covers in this competition for best of the year, but I think it's impossible for any to top this one from New York. Take a look at the entire line-up here and see what you think.We make the mistake of treating the Net as if it were a medium. But it’s more like [...]
New Jersey’s Star-Ledger today put out an entire edition without anything from the Associated Press within. The sharp-eyed reader will notice lots of local news by staff plus articles from other papers–Washington Post, LA Times, McClatchy, the Glouceseter County Times–and content from online [...]
