Antitrust is an Answer—But Not for Journalism 2/11/21
On the Voting Machine Libel Suits, Hold the Schadenfreude 2/18/21
What’s With All Those Retirements in Journalism? 2/25/21
Journalism Vindicates the Need to Remember, Not a Right to Forget 3/4/21
Why Celebrating the “Power of Print” Can Be a Mistake 3/11/21
How to Cover a Normal Presidency 3/18/21
Is Journalism Inherently Progressive? 3/25/21
Before Communities Need News, They Need Information 4/1/21
Memo to Tribune Rescuers: First Thing You Do, Stop Printing the Papers 4/8/21
SPACs Are Not a Business Model 4/15/21
The Pandemic Mistakes Journalists Need to Be Thinking About Include Our Own 4/22/21
As Evening TV News Shows Resume Their Decline, Some Suggestions From a Text Guy 4/29/21
Four Phrases From Old School PR Worth Abandoning 5/6/21
The Facebook Supreme Court’s Trump Decision: What’s Been Missed 5/13/21
What Do Our News Values Mean Now? 5/20/21
Needed: Local Funding for Local News 5/27/21
A Local News Tree Grows in Britain 6/3/21
Why Are Social Media Policies So Hard for Newsrooms? 6/10/21
The Lab Leak Theory, UFO’s and Known Unknowns 6/17/21
The Reader and Voter Trust Problems Go Both Ways 6/24/21
Don’t Overestimate Government’s Ability to Save the News 7/1/21
Political Reporting and the Phenomenon of Andrew Yang 7/8/21
A Second Justice Joins the War on the Press 7/15/21
If You Work for Murdoch, It’s Time to Do Something 7/22/21
Why the Bourdain Fake Audios are a Problem for Journalism 7/29/21
Thinking About Coverage of China and the Second Cold War 8/5/21
Celebrating the Power of Publishing Partnerships 8/12/21
The Press Also Has Responsibility for the Afghanistan Mess 8/26/21
A Call for More Proportionality in Pandemic Coverage 9/2/21
A Lesson from the Decline of Vice 9/9/21
Four Rules for Nonprofit Journalism Funders 9/17/21
Why News Organizations Should Stop Sponsoring Polls 9/23/21
Is it Time for Journalism to Get Off Facebook? 9/30/21
New York’s Next Mayor and a Failure of Local Reporting 10/7/21
Hedge Funds Are Not the Cause of Newspapers’ Largest Woes 10/28/21
Two Lessons for Today From a Journalism Immortal 11/4/21
Help Wanted: A New Cadre of Business Leaders for News 11/11/21
The Press Has a Gambling Problem 11/18/21
Rules for Covering Omicron Better 12/2/21
Why It’s Still True That BuzzFeed Was Right to Publish the Steele Dossier 12/9/21
A Year in Review, for Worse and Better 12/16/21
Don’t Weep for the Extradition of Julian Assange 1/6/22
Bismarck Was Wrong. We Need Better Coverage of Congress. 1/13/22
The Real Opportunities for a New News 1/20/22
Four Lessons from Two Decades of Newsroom Lawyering 1/27/22
Surrounded by Catastrophe? Maybe Less Than You’ve Heard. 2/3/22
On the Culture Problem at CNN 2/10/22
Journalism Shouldn’t Mean Never Having to Say You’re Sorry 2/17/22
Covering Putin’s War, Our Future and the American Fifth Column 3/3/22
How Nonprofit News Should Think About Earned Income 3/10/22
It’s Important Not to Look Away from the News Deserts Problem 3/17/22
A Call for More Mergers in Nonprofit Journalism 3/24/22
A Journalistic Fail Around a Film About Journalism 4/4/22
Time for Local Newspapers to Go All-Local? 4/14/22
The COVID Death Toll and Our Information Gap 4/28/22
Newsrooms and the National Bad Mood 5/5/12
What to Make of the Retreat of BuzzFeed News 5/12/22
Thinking Through Two Pulitzer Controversies 5/19/22
What If a Recession Is Just Ahead? 5/26/22
Uvalde and Law Enforcement’s Credibility Gap 6/2/22
History and the First Rough Draft of Journalism 6/9/22
Why Watergate Seems Almost Quaint at Fifty 6/16/22
What to Do About Twitter in Newsrooms 6/23/22
Time for Real Coverage of the Supreme Court 6/27/22
How to Report About the Pandemic Now 7/14/22
Opining About Opinion Pages 7/21/22
How Journalists Feel About Journalism Right Now is… Complicated 7/28/22
Books About Investigative Reporting Are Even More Interesting Than They Used to Be 8/1/22
A Halfhearted Eulogy for the Local Journalism Sustainability Act 8/18/22
The Case Against Sunday Newspaper Magazines 8/25/22
How to Think About ‘I’m Saving It for My Book’ 9/8/22
A Local News Guide to Effective Voter Assistance 9/15/22
The Queen, Trust and the Incurious Press 9/22/22
Should Journalists Cover QAnon as Trump’s New Religion? 9/29/22
One Grandpa’s Early Thoughts on Tik Tok and News 10/6/22
Taking Stock of What We’ve Learned About Paywalls 10/13/22
A New (Short) Book on Nonprofit News Management 10/20/22
A Few Words of Warning About Funding Intermediaries and Philanthropy’s Leaky Bucket 11/3/22
More on Intermediaries and Funders (Including from Critics and Fans) 11/8/22
Early Returns on Political Coverage and the First Election for the Democracy Beat 11/17/22
Answers for Smaller Newsrooms After Twitter 12/1/22
What If Your Donor Turns Out to Be a Crook? 12/8/22
A Look Back Before We Move Forward 12/15/22
Five Stories I’d Like to Read in 2023 1/5/23
Thinking About Newsroom Unions 1/12/23
New Paths to the Top of New Newsrooms 1/19/23
Learning From Mackenzie Scott’s Philanthropy To Build Local News 1/26/23
Trump and Russia, China and COVID and the Next Rough Draft of History 2/2/23
LinkedIn and Substack to the Rescue of News? 2/16/23
Opening Our Minds About Whether Biden Will Really Run Again 2/23/23
Confronting Three Hard Questions About Audience 3/2/23
A Smart Way to Subsidize Local Journalism, and a Less Smart One 3/9/23
Why Fox Will Settle the Dominion Case 3/15/23
Don’t Forget About Funding for Journalism Nationally 3/30/23
Making Sense of “Supersizing NewsMatch” 4/6/23
What Can We Learn from the Near Death of the Texas Observer? 4/20/23
Three Ideas About Fixing Our Freedom of Information Laws 4/27/23
Public Radio and Broadcast TV Aren’t (Yet) the Answer to the Local News Problem 5/4/23
How to Better Cover the Crimes of Donald Trump 5/11/23
Of Leaks, Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize 5/18/23
Journalism and the Unmaking of Elon Musk 5/25/23
How a New Experiment Could Usefully Challenge News Judgments 6/8/23
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