I recently ran across a compelling tale of a reporter in the midst of wrenching change at a once-great American newspaper:
Every eye in the newsroom followed me as I left Kramer’s office and walked back to my pod. The long looks made it a long walk. The pink slips always came out on Fridays and [...]

David Simon is the curmudgeon and arch skeptic you’d hope to find in newsrooms everywhere. He took a buyout from The Baltimore Sun in 1995, having grown fed up with his newspaper’s management long before that was the industry standard.
Simon went on to a career in book writing and television, including NBC’s Homicide: Life on [...]

For a lot of reporters and editors, newspaper layoffs take away more than a steady paycheck — they steal an identity. Newspaper people, more than in a lot of other businesses, define themselves by the work they do.
And when they’re set adrift from the mothership, it can be jarring. (My own alma mater, The [...]

I’m glad that, whatever else one thinks of Tina Brown or her Daily Beast, she’s created a boomlet of sales for Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, the greatest of all journalism novels.