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Inside Baseball: Mark Bowden's Shot Heard 'Round The World (Wide Web)

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:08:00 -0400

On Monday, the editors of Vanity Fair posted Mark Bowden's May 2009 write-around on Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. on the Web. The story, which was Mr. Bowden's first for the magazine, made quite an impression on the small—and ever-shrinking—community of media reporters and pundits who obsess about The New York Times, not to mention the bloggers, tumblrers and twittererers who do whatever it is they do ("aggregate"? "reblog"? "tweet"? help us out with the correct...

The Time of Our Times

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:29:12 -0500

Lots of people seem to be thinking about The New York Times today. Or is it just us?

The future of the country's leading newspaper—which as recently as early January was called into doubt by The Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn—is touched on in this week's Time magazine cover story by Walter Isaacson, which was updated online after it appeared late last week with following:

Currently a few newspapers, most notably the Wall Street Journal, charge...

Nip/Tuck For Romenesko; Beta Launch of New Poynter Site

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:11:36 -0400

This weekend, The New York Times' 'Social Q's' columnist Philip Galanes received the following question:

An acquaintance had her breasts enhanced. She never announced the fact or discussed it. Should I have commented on her new look the first time I saw her? She hasn’t sought my opinion, so I’ve said nothing. But it seems odd to...

All is Well: No Romenesko Redesign

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:43:59 -0400

And exhale, everyone. If you have clicked on Romenesko over the last 20 minutes you were redirected to this site and noticed a frighteningly different-looking page--Jim's Tumblr page, maybe?

It's not a redesign.

"No, that's our default when our damn unreliable servers go down," he wrote in response to a question from Media...

iChatting With Jim Romenesko

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:57:41 -0400

As you may know if you read half a dozen media news and gossip sites, Howell Raines profiled the Poynter Institute's Jim Romenesko in this month's Portfolio. Mr. Raines calls Mr. Romenesko's media news site, "a high-tech tom-tom for angst-ridden members of a dying tribe" and calls the man himself "both the medium and the message." (Mr. Romenesko linked to the story himself, pulling one of the least flattering statements, "From guru...

Everything's Coming Up Fowler: Mayhill's Big Weekend

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:54:36 -0400

Who was the big media star of the weekend? The Huffington Post's citizen journalist extraordinaire Mayhill Fowler, of course! After her rope line "interview" with Bill Clinton made headlines, Ms. Fowler has found herself at the center of a journalistic ethics-new-new-new media kerfuffle.

Here's a snapshot of Ms. Fowler's big weekend (as compiled with the help of the redoubtable Jim Romenesko):

Saturday: The Los Angeles Times' James Rainey profiled Ms. Fowler calling...

Romenesko Uses First Person Claim: Mutter Is All Wet

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:38:32 -0500

Congratulations to media-blogger Alan Mutter, proprietor of Reflections of a Newsosaur. Dismayed that people spent Election Day e-mailing one another food stories instead of political news, Mutter came up with a blog post that led ultra-detached media-news king Jim Romenesko to briefly drop his deadpan Len Downie mask and offer a rare, perhaps unprecedented, flicker of commentary: Alan Mutter found that two-thirds of Wednesday's stories in his most-emailed study had nothing to do...