From NYRB, Michael Massing reviews books, blogs, Web sites, and essays on "the news about the Internet". Ever get the feeling the newspaper-Web war was fought before? Michael Hickins on how the Internet isn’t killing papers — we are. An interview with NYU professor, respected press blogger, and master-Twitterer Jay Rosen. An interview with Jonathan Glick: "There may be a future for the news business, but it’s going to be unrecognizable". Here are four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian's (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment. "Lipstick on a pig": An article on research tracking the life and death of news. Gawker reports on Matt Drudge's favorite personalities/targets, ranked by the number of times their names have appeared in his headlines since 2002. A review of Late Edition: A Love Story by Bob Greene. An article on questioning journalistic objectivity. Gillian Reagan on how the Times' home page gets made. A review of Jerelle Kraus' All the Art That's Fit to Print: Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page. City of Niche News: Niche reporters and correspondents from overseas now dominate the Washington press corps. Privately owned alt-weeklies are quick to point out the failings of their big-corporate counterparts — but are the indies really a better alternative?
