editor on the verge

Too many newspaper websites are simply online recreations of their printed products. These sites do little to take advantage of the opportunities being online provide. And worse, what bad habits they have in print, they replicate online. Case in point — long stories. It is well known that “lack of time” is one of the […]

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So evidently someone was thinking that there’s more that TMZ could teach newspapers then just how to run a story meeting. On Friday, TMZ Founder Harvey Levin spoke to journalism students at NYU. You can find coverage here and here. If you were in attendance, feel free to add your own take on his appearance.

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It struck me while I was cleaning my apartment recently that, for someone who works in the newspaper industry, I subscribe to a lot of magazines. Not only do I get them in the mail, but I actually read them. And I don’t just glance through them, I read them cover to cover. As I […]

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At too many newspapers reporters have been given smart phones to use when they’re out in their beats only to return to the office and work on circa-1980s desktop computers. They sit on chairs that are held together by bubblegum and Scotch tape and talk on phones that are a mix of handsets, cords and […]

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