Tuned In+January 29, 2010

Dead Tree Alert: All the News That's Fit to Mint

By James Poniewozik

My column in this week’s print TIME is about the New York Times’ plan to begin charging (some people, something) to read it on the Web starting next year. Seemingly by design, it doesn’t look like the plan would raise too much money at first. It’s more important symbolically: the country’s most authoritative (and argued-about) [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | December 16, 2009

Doing Less With Less: What Are You Willing to Give Up from Journalism?

By James Poniewozik

I met a neighbor at a party last weekend and mentioned that I write for TIME. This led to a conversation about the New York Times–specifically, how many typos she’s noticed in the paper lately. They must be getting rid of all their copy editors! Yeah, I said, they’re probably stretched pretty thin–more copy to [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | July 16, 2009

Why Journalists Are Like SCOTUS Nominees

By James Poniewozik

Because of a disconnected cable box (unhooked for TIME’s office move) and a desktop Mac that has a hard time with streaming video, I’m not watching the Sotomayor hearings today. But having watched some of the first three days, and having read much of the commentary, it strikes me that you could replace “judges” with [...]

+Movies | April 17, 2009

Top 10 Newspaper Movies

By Gilbert Cruz
Everett

Most of the time, journalism is not that exciting (trust us, we know). But these movies do a superb job of making the business look glamorous, dangerous and fun.