From The Wrap, a look at how "content farms" such as Associated Content, Demand Media or AOL’s Seed are killing journalism — while making a killing. From AJR, Abby Brownback on a Web-centric approach to traditional journalism. Not dead yet: Newspapers have cut their way out of crisis — more radical surgery will be needed. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: Jay Rosen on the actual ideology of the American press. From Zenit, heroism is being a Christian journalist. Journalism monopoly was also a market failure: Eroding newspaper business models represent markets that are working, not just failing. Government can (help) save the news, but maybe not newspapers. And that’s not the way it is: W. Joseph Campbell busts some persistent media myths. The odd case of the Newseum: One of Washington, DC's most popular attractions is also its most unwittingly moribund. The Journalism of Opinion: Video from Columbia’s recent conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. If you love newspapers, let them go: A handy guide to kicking your dead tree habit. A review of News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism by Colleen Cotter. Even as competitors are busy bricking paywalls around their newspaper Web sites, desperately trying to keep the old business models running, the U.K.'s Guardian is taking a wholly different path — the paper has just introduced a free story syndication tool. Murdoch is right: If we value good journalism, why don’t we pay for it online? Philip Bump on the unsettling new era of the individual journalist. Can this headline save the news? Lauren Kirchner on the perils of the bait-and-switch headline. Beyond the dross: John Pilger and Steve Platt on their shared craft of journalism.
