What’s the X factor that will bridge design with social change?: A new website says it’s journalism. Katie and Diane: Why can’t the print press treat TV news as news? Fading Print: Greg Beato on how we will survive without newspapers. From The Nation, John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney on how to save journalism. The two have gone together for so long, it seems like they’ve always been a couple: Death and newspapers. An interview with Nicholas Lemann on the newspaper crisis: "Journalism isn't going away". Paper Hangers: Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think (and a response). Journalism is dying, journalism is thriving, the end of the world is nigh — there’s a lot to be excited about; Leah Finnegan reports on the newspapers that prevailed by hook or crook in 2009. What it means when a city loses its paper: Quite simply job losses, and increasingly unwatched local government, and rising cultural illiteracy. Newsrooms don't need more conservatives: What's important is the willingness to hold power accountable. David Carr on how The Wall Street Journal is tilting rightward under Rupert Murdoch. A review of Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, the Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism by Richard J. Tofel. A review of My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times by Harold Evans (and more and more and more and more and more and more). An interview with Carl Hartman, the longest serving AP writer. An interview with Todd Gitlin on books about the media. Michael X. Delli Carpini on the inherent arbitrariness of the "news" versus "entertainment" distinction. From CJR, Craig Silverman on the New Great American Pastime: It’s fact checking.
