By Chris Daly
My publisher, UMass Press, has produced this flier about my book, which includes the all-important ORDER FORM for advance orders.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Youth will be served
By Chris Daly
The NYTimes spots (yet another) new trend: younger and younger correspondents hitting the presidential campaign trail.
Any why not? Covering presidential campaigns requires mainly stamina, energy, and curiosity. The place where experience counts is on the desk where the correspondents’ work is edited. By this time next year, we should have a good idea who has a strong desk and who doesn’t.
Filed under Uncategorized
Leaks, cont.
By Chris Daly
Here is a reminder that when elected officials denounce “leaks” to the news media, what they are usually talking about are unauthorized leaks. Every elected official that I ever covered or researched used leaks when they considered them advantageous. When a leak occurred that proved disadvantageous, they usually denounced those disclosures as horrendous ethical breaches that threatened the integrity of government, blah, blah, blah…
In this case, there is an added bonus: seeing Cheney have to acknowledge that leaking is a tactic (not a matter of principle) and as a super-bonus, seeing Cheney out of the loop.
Plus, a hat-tip to Dave Ignatius.
Filed under Journalism, journalism history, leaks, Uncategorized
NYT front pages
Here is a fairly cool video showing the NYTimes homepage at the rate of two samples an hour for about 10 months. It’s a time-lapse of some 12,000 screenshots.
My take:
–The Times updates more often than I realized.
–The Times runs more prominent sports photos than I realized. (Enough Yankees already!)
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NYTimes paywall
By Chris Daly
As usual, it is worth reading what Dan Gillmor has to say — this time about the results to date of the New York Times‘ experiment with its paywall. Here’s his recent post from the Guardian.
I agree with him that it’s too soon to render any real verdict, but I think the Times might be doing a bit better than “not failing.” In any case, I wish them well.
Filed under Journalism, New York Times, publishing
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