See this at: poynter.org| Added on 05/01/06

John Carroll left his role as editor of the Los Angeles Times in 2005 and is Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. When he spoke... See more

John Carroll left his role as editor of the Los Angeles Times in 2005 and is Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. When he spoke to the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Seattle Wednesday, he described his comments as "an interim report -- a collection of significant fragments" as he stands back an observes news media today. Here are excerpts from his speech, reprinted with permission. (Full text available here and here, and a PDF version of the speech can be found here.) See less

See this at: stateofthenewsmedia....| Added on 04/09/06

By the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Rick Edmonds of The Poynter Institute

By the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Rick Edmonds of The Poynter Institute See less

See this at: radio.weblogs.com| Added on 04/08/06

Vinh says that before he was hired, "the fundamental creative strategy" for the Times new look had been decided with the help of an outside design firm and a selection of new page templates had been designed.

Vinh says that before he was hired, "the fundamental creative strategy" for the Times new look had been decided with the help of an outside design firm and a selection of new page templates had been designed. See less

See this at: journalism.nyu.edu| Added on 04/08/06

We need to keep the press from being absorbed into The Media. This means keeping the word press, which is antiquated. But included under its modern umbrella should be all who do the serious work in journalism, regardless of the technology used. The... See more

We need to keep the press from being absorbed into The Media. This means keeping the word press, which is antiquated. But included under its modern umbrella should be all who do the serious work in journalism, regardless of the technology used. The people who will invent the next press in America--and who are doing it now online--continue an experiment at least 250 years old. It has a powerful social history and political legend attached... See less

Highlights: And while most publishers will tell you they find it hard to make money online, the Guardian site made a £1 million profit last year.

See this at: ajr.org| Added on 04/08/06

It’s healthy for news organizations to be much more open about their decision making than they have been in the past. But in response to relentless pounding from bloggers and other critics, is the transparency movement getting out of hand? By Rachel... See more

It’s healthy for news organizations to be much more open about their decision making than they have been in the past. But in response to relentless pounding from bloggers and other critics, is the transparency movement getting out of hand? By Rachel Smolkin See less

See this at: blogs.salon.com| Added on 04/08/06

Jay Rosen has written an intelligent piece about New York Times editor Bill Keller's admission that he doesn't read Romenesko and other media blogs. Jay traces Keller's aversion to blogosphere chatter through a series of comments about... See more

Jay Rosen has written an intelligent piece about New York Times editor Bill Keller's admission that he doesn't read Romenesko and other media blogs. Jay traces Keller's aversion to blogosphere chatter through a series of comments about "self-absorption." This term is closely related to navel-gazing, and somewhat more distantly, to "inside baseball." These are all terms journalists use when they fear that shop-talk and meta-conversations about their profession will bore the readership. (Sometimes they also fear that such "self-absorption" might lead to embarrassment, loss of authority or a little too much light shed on the profession of light-shedding.) Of course, the blogosphere has opened an inexhaustible faucet of such meta-conversation. This brings us to the most interesting part of Rosen's piece, to me. "There seems to be no end to any argument in your world," Keller complained to blogger Jeff Jarvis in a public e-mail exchange last year. Well, right, Rosen says. He sympathizes... See less