Rethinking shoe leather and professional boundaries in reporting ? and academia I was clueless about pretty much everything regarding academia and my field when I entered grad school three years ago (as opposed to merely ?most things? now), and in retrospect, that cluelessness should have worried me more than it did at the time. … Read more
The Longform Guide to Undercover Journalism Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Download Longform?s app to read the latest picks, plus features from 70 of the world?s best … Read more
The Newsonomics of Jeff Bezos Buying the Washington PostIt is a thunderbolt. If not tossed down from Mt. Olympus, it is thrown from Mt. Amazon, not far from Washington?s beatific Olympic Mountains. Amazon chief Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post for $250m Paul Farhi, at the Washington Post: The Washington Post Co. has agreed … Read more
Criminalizing Journalism: Manning, Media and You Illustration: Reuters/William Hennessy Pierre Bourdieu?s charts and journalism Journalists should take nothing for granted but, instead, look at the silences in the world and ask: why? American model of media and journalism or why the “revolution” might not be televised Living in USA within the last month … Read more