Patrick Kabat (Yale): Private Actors, Public Rights: Surrogate Litigation and Press Rights in a Post-Newspaper Age. From CJR, Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves on The Story So Far: What we know about the business of digital journalism. Felix Salmon on the business of digital journalism. How to solve the online news riddle? Turn "casual users" into "power users". Has the Internet "hamsterized" journalism? An interview with Slate's David Plotz on Fresca Fellowships and journalism (and more on aggregation: "It was never simply an act of summarizing"). An interview with Richard Tofel on the changing business of journalism. Brooke Gladstone's The Influencing Machine: A comic-book manifesto about the state of the American media (and more). Christopher Ketcham on intellectual prostitution and the myth of objectivity. Chris Hedges' latest book, Death of the Liberal Class, is a troubling look at how respected news organizations like The New York Times ignore leftist thought. American journalism in the coils of "ressentiment": A review of William McGowan's Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means For America. The slow collapse of the newspaper industry has opened up public discourse to additional infusions of ideologically motivated misinformation — Walter Lippmann wouldn’t be pleased. A review of Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America by John McMillian. Philip Connors on his life and times in American journalism. Where is journalism school going? The Medill School of Journalism's change of name is indicative of wider — and frightening — trends in journalism education. Getting cruised by the news: Young adults don't follow the news; it follows them.
