In my last post, I spent a lot of time laying out a fairly abstract framework for how we can think intelligently about future kinds of news organizations. I argued they could be usefully evaluated and charted on four factors: the type of work they do, how institutionalized they are, how many resources they have, [...]

The New York Times reports today: “For the most part, the traditional news outlets lead and the blogs follow, typically by 2.5 hours, according to a new computer analysis of news articles and commentary on the Web during the last three months of the 2008 presidential campaign.” By that measure, I’m past due in responding, [...]

— Lots of buzz about Emily Nussbaum’s cover story in the new issue of New York, about the new projects built by the journalist/programmer team at The New York Times. Original-Gawker Elizabeth Spiers is not impressed:
…are expectations for traditional media institutions so abysmally low that they should be roundly patted on the back for understanding [...]

This is what the future of journalism looks like. (Well, part of it, at least.)
Susan Gardner, an editor at Daily Kos — the liberal site that is equal parts news aggregator, activist hub, community builder, and advocacy journalism — was upset by recent reports that AIG was treating employees to lavish junkets while taxpayers [...]

Leonard Downie, Jr., the longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, spoke at the Nieman Foundation’s 70th Anniversary Convocation Weekend Saturday here in Cambridge. Here’s the 23-minute video, the first of several from the weekend. (A full transcript of his talk is below the jump.)
Downie’s topic was the ethical and moral obligations of journalists online. [...]