The Homicide Report: Great journalism in blog format
Monday, 14 January 2008, 08:20
US National Public Radio’s On the Media this week had an interview with Jill Leovy, a Los Angeles Times reporter who writes the Homicide Report, a blog that seeks to chronicle every murder in the California city.
The blog tells the story each murder victim in the city — stories so common that before the launch [...]
Newspapers’ ‘frenemy’ Google, the debate continues
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 14:31
Google maybe making peace with the wires, but America’s latest newspaper mogul is not a fan. The new owner of Tribune newspapers, Chicago property magnate Sam Zell, reignited the old Google-as-kleptomaniac topos when he told students at Stanford University:
“We have a situation today where effectively the content is being paid for by the newspapers [...]
