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September 28, 2012
This used to be Newsweek. 

This used to be Newsweek. 

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June 8, 2012
now that’s a headline. NYT, 1922. (via)

now that’s a headline. NYT, 1922. (via)

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March 27, 2012
The Guardian’s 10 rules of “open journalism,” as tweeted by the editor-in-chief: It encourages participation. It invites and/or allows a response It is not an inert, “us” to “them” form of publishing It encourages others to initiate debate.We can follow, as well as lead.We involve others pre-publication It helps form communities of joint interest around subjects, issues or individuals It’s open to the web. It links to, and collaborates with, other material (including services) on the web It aggregates and/or curates the work of others It recognizes that journalists are not the only voices of authority, expertise and interest It aspires to achieve, and reflect, diversity as well as promoting shared values It recognizes that publishing can be the beginning of the journalistic process rather than the end It is transparent and open to challenge – including correction, clarification and addition 

The Guardian’s 10 rules of “open journalism,” as tweeted by the editor-in-chief:

  1. It encourages participation. It invites and/or allows a response
  2. It is not an inert, “us” to “them” form of publishing
  3. It encourages others to initiate debate.We can follow, as well as lead.We involve others pre-publication
  4. It helps form communities of joint interest around subjects, issues or individuals
  5. It’s open to the web. It links to, and collaborates with, other material (including services) on the web
  6. It aggregates and/or curates the work of others
  7. It recognizes that journalists are not the only voices of authority, expertise and interest
  8. It aspires to achieve, and reflect, diversity as well as promoting shared values
  9. It recognizes that publishing can be the beginning of the journalistic process rather than the end
  10. It is transparent and open to challenge – including correction, clarification and addition 

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December 21, 2011

Do they know it’s Global Orgasm for Peace Day at all? Kudos to Adam Gabbatt and Ryan Jones for brilliantly, uh, pulling off a potentially disastrous man-on-the-street video. Now, “lie back and think of Syria.”

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December 14, 2011
The last act of journalism I committed for Adweek was this fun Q&A with Hollywood legend (and new Vanity Fair film critic) Paul Mazursky — the guy behind Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, among other films. Excerpt: Do you feel like you can be emotionally honest as a critic with the people that you worked with? Yeah, I actually do, because lately I haven’t worked with anybody. So I can be very honest. I never met Lars von Trier; I don’t know Steve McQueen, both people I’ve given good reviews to. I know Clint Eastwood. He might kill me. I wasn’t crazy about [J. Edgar], but I like him.Do you have another movie in you? I’m 81 years old. I mean, I could, but I don’t think I could deal with the new group of producers that are out there. They give notes. The only time I got a note was on Down and Out in Beverly Hills. [Jeffrey] Katzenberg gave me some notes, so I marked them C-minus. I gave [them] to him, and I never got notes again. I do have scripts that I have written that I’ve tried to get going in the last few years, but nothing has happened. Read more here.

The last act of journalism I committed for Adweek was this fun Q&A with Hollywood legend (and new Vanity Fair film critic) Paul Mazursky — the guy behind Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, among other films.

Excerpt:

Do you feel like you can be emotionally honest as a critic with the people that you worked with?
Yeah, I actually do, because lately I haven’t worked with anybody. So I can be very honest. I never met Lars von Trier; I don’t know Steve McQueen, both people I’ve given good reviews to. I know Clint Eastwood. He might kill me. I wasn’t crazy about [J. Edgar], but I like him.

Do you have another movie in you?
I’m 81 years old. I mean, I could, but I don’t think I could deal with the new group of producers that are out there. They give notes. The only time I got a note was on Down and Out in Beverly Hills. [Jeffrey] Katzenberg gave me some notes, so I marked them C-minus. I gave [them] to him, and I never got notes again. I do have scripts that I have written that I’ve tried to get going in the last few years, but nothing has happened.

Read more here.

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December 8, 2011
P.J. O'Rourke goes from 'Hell' to 'Heck' for a holiday

I interviewed author, recovering war correspondent, satirist and conservative funny guy P.J. O’Rourke for USA Today about his new book, ‘Holidays in Heck.’ A taste:

Q. Could you have a career like yours today if you were just getting into journalism?

A. No. And really it would strictly be a matter of money. There still are of course well-paid foreign correspondents out there. But I would have had to work for some big institution, either a television network or one of the few remaining profitable print outlets.

Q. Is that because of a shift in the news business, or in the appetites of readers?

A. As we say in the trade, that’s a good question. There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more. I would still be able to write all the stuff that I wrote, but I’d have to write it on a blog, and how would I get paid for that? It was very expensive for Rolling Stone, the Atlantic and various other publications to underwrite the bill. I could call them up and say, “I’m going to Albania.” And they’d say “fine.”

Read more here.

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November 30, 2011
Some job news

Sorry to say that I’m leaving Adweek. But thrilled to announce I’ll be joining the US staff of the Guardian as a news editor later this month. God save the queen.

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November 29, 2011
Today in questionable magazine cover design decisions.

Today in questionable magazine cover design decisions.

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October 26, 2011

For the record, I have been this “clueless journalist” before, mostly because I was on an assignment and didn’t have time to prep and/or was completely out of my element. It’s the worst feeling to interview someone even somewhat intimidating who justifiably (or not!) hates you.

motherjones:

“IAN MACKAYE INTERVIEW”,

or

“Clueless Journalists: Being Scared of Shit Since 1980!”

Note to square journos: If you don’t understand a thing, but have an ill-informed notion about that thing, don’t go out and interview a guy who lives, eats, and breathes that thing.

On the good side, it puts a lot of the recent #Occupy coverage in perspective.

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October 25, 2011
My friend and former colleague Sam Register is the archival force of nature behind this retro Newsweek tumblr. You should follow it. Also, I’d like a “Where is she now” follow up on the lady on this cover. Or maybe a time machine. And that guy’s mustache/chestbeard. nwkarchivist: July 16, 1973 First in our Swingin’ Seventies series.  Can you imagine conceiving of, let alone green-lighting this today?  Newsweek brimming w/ confidence and feeling their oats.  What were these “games”?  Dive in…

My friend and former colleague Sam Register is the archival force of nature behind this retro Newsweek tumblr. You should follow it. Also, I’d like a “Where is she now” follow up on the lady on this cover. Or maybe a time machine. And that guy’s mustache/chestbeard.

nwkarchivist:

July 16, 1973

First in our Swingin’ Seventies series.  Can you imagine conceiving of, let alone green-lighting this today?  Newsweek brimming w/ confidence and feeling their oats.  What were these “games”?  Dive in…

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