Tuned In+News Media | 785 days ago

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 edit, in the paper and online, and fewer people to do it–and they’re in the middle of a big round of layoffs.

I know, she said, it’s terrible! Anyway, she continued, we’re dropping the daily paper and just getting the weekend from now on. I’m not going to keep giving all that money to a newspaper that’s riddled with typos!

There you pretty much have the dilemma of the old-line media outfit today. Your readers expect old-fashioned editorial standards, and they want you to maintain them with a new-fangled revenue stream.

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Tuned In+News Media | 863 days ago

The Washington Post Slaps the Twitter Handcuffs on Its Staff

By James Poniewozik

Here’s something everybody should understand about journalism. The reporters, columnists and news anchors you follow almost all have opinions about the subjects they cover. There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, it is a good thing, because any person who immersed him or herself in a vital, contentious subject all day and formed no opinion [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 920 days ago

The Post Vs. Gawker: When Does Linking Become Larceny?

By James Poniewozik

Washington Post writer Ian Shapira recently reported a feature on a business guru who consults executives on how to deal with twentysomething employees and clients. When Gawker wrote a snarky post based on (and linking to) his article, he was thrilled at first. Then, prodded by an editor, he looked more closely at the Gawker post [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 934 days ago

NYT = NPR? Can a Pay Paper Seek Foundation Money?

By James Poniewozik

My column in TIME this week is about the various plans media outlets are considering to float their operations as their old business model is suffering. On the heels of this comes a report that the New York Times is considering—but only considering—getting foundations to support its reporting, as public broadcasting does. In an interview [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 973 days ago

TDS on NYT: Read It and Weep

By James Poniewozik

Someday I want to write a piece about the obsessive hold the New York Times has on people: how it’s loved and hated, worshipped and sneered at, fetishized and despised, dismissed as irrelevant and criticized as tyrannically influential, written off as a dinosaur while providing content for seemingly the entire Internet. How Left and Right [...]