ProPublica Needs A Bigger Ambition
2021-03-15
The challenge – and opportunity – is that the public doesn’t currently read ProPublica. ProPublica’s prize-winning accountability journalism just keepsKeep Reading
Lifting Paywalls: Great For Business, Too
2020-10-15
‘We’ve lifted the paywall on our coverage’ has become a common phrase lately, whether for hurricanes, fires, mass shootings, elections,Keep Reading
A Fun News Data Distraction After Super Tuesday
2020-03-06
Sometimes when you know a city really well, and you see some detailed data about it, it just makes senseKeep Reading
My Tour Of The New York Times’ Morgue
2019-05-08
Today I spent a couple of hours in a basement archive belonging to the New York Times. It was aKeep Reading
Five Questions Funders Will Ask About Your Journalism Venture
2019-04-17
Think these over before meeting with potential funders from the tech world. More and more journalist-entrepreneurs are looking to SiliconKeep Reading
Don’t Do Journalism For The Money… But Do It.
2018-10-16
In January 1984, I got offered a summer reporting internship at the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk Virginia. On hearing about it,Keep Reading
What Local Journalism Needs Now
2018-09-24
The recent Online News Association event in Austin was great – full of passionate, committed local journalist-entrepreneurs all trying to figureKeep Reading
Are Mannequins Running Pensacola’s Biggest Newsroom?
2018-09-21
I recently spent 24 hours in Pensacola, and stumbled across a ghostly reminder of how far local journalism has fallenKeep Reading
Are Teachers And Journalists On The Same Scary Ride?
2018-08-09
They’re facing a lot of change, and the same tough questions. Google ‘what do teachers and journalists have in common’Keep Reading
Paywalls Are Killing Local Journalism.
2018-08-07
Paywalls have dramatically failed journalism. In an attempt to adapt to the Internet, American newspapers of all sizes have erectedKeep Reading
What’s Holding Back The New York Times?
2018-04-17
Why does The New York Times only have two million digital subscribers, when there are two billion smartphone users onKeep Reading
The World’s Front Pages on Your Screen
2016-10-27
Newspapers (the printed kind) may be on the ropes, but they want you to know that they’re not dead yet.Keep Reading
The Asteroid That Smashed the Newspaper Industry
2013-08-03
I woke up this weekend to the news The Times had finally sold off The Boston Globe to a localKeep Reading
Your Right to Government Information
1989-10-10
I wrote this article in 1989 for one of the first issues of PC Computing magazine.Keep Reading