While the New York Times newsroom deals with another round of job cuts, one area of the newspaper is actually growing. Fourteen jobs are currently open at the Times website, most of them for software developers and engineers.
On Thursday, the digital staff gathered for an “all hands” meeting at TheTimesCenter to hear updates on various [...]

The announcement of The Washington Post’s new social media policy prompted the usual round of sniping between old and new media partisans. (For a good overview of the back and forth, see this post by my Lab colleague Mathew Ingram.)
The battle lines on this debate are fairly well defined — at this point, I [...]

[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, and its focus is the impact of social media on journalism. There are lots of interesting articles, and we've been highlighting a few here over the next few days. Here's our final one: a piece by journalism professor Scott R. Meier on the future [...]

[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, and its focus is the impact of social media on journalism. There are lots of interesting articles, and we'll be highlighting a few here over the next few days. Here's a piece by our friend Matt Thompson about the need for context in the [...]

This is what a profitable post-paper newsroom looks like:

And this is what it feels like: 15 hours a day, seven days a week, from the 7 a.m. check-in with your spouse-turned-business-partner to the midnight bookkeeping.
No kids, no vacations, no car. No office; your only away-from-home base is a former Main Street antique shop that sells [...]

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, [...]

Go figure: When we’re talking about a new media ecosystem, writers and reporters get all the press. But one in two of the country’s daily print journalists is an editor or a boss. What’s going to happen to them?
Cornelius Swart, the 37-year-old publisher of a respected neighborhood monthly in Portland, Ore., is working on an [...]

With the journalism and technology landscape changing literally by the hour, I often feel that one thing missing from conversations about “the future of news” is the long view. Steve Yelvington was implicitly making this point about history when he recently wrote that
…newspapers have a track record of empirical learnings that perhaps ought to be [...]

I’d never heard this term until Dave Hendricks, who blogs at Attentionization, used it when he wrote about my post regarding what newspapers could learn from the decline in the ice harvesting business. (Read more about how he explains artisanal news in the comments on that post.)
I like the term. So I started to think [...]

[Here's part two of Dan's essay on the ills facing American newspapers; part one ran yesterday. —Josh]
While we legitimately want to keep partisanship and polemics out of our news coverage, we need to stop banishing our humanity and the passions that made us become journalists in the first place. When we find a great story, [...]

[You probably know our friend Dan Froomkin as the man behind the terrific White House Watch on washingtonpost.com. We know him best from his other day job, deputy editor of our sister site, Nieman Watchdog. When Dan told me he had an essay he wanted to share with us on his prescription for the news [...]

A couple months ago, I posted a 20-minute video of our friend David Ardia at a newspaper conference we both spoke at in November. His topic was Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and the legal protection it provides to people who run web sites.
But David was just the first of two [...]

Here’s Part 2 of my interview with Jesse Thorn, the host of public radio’s The Sound of Young America. (Here’s my intro post and Part 1.)
In this part of our conversation, we talk about the state of the radio business — both commercial and public — and its unwillingness to imagine a truly new model [...]

Last week we published two videos from my interview with Alan Murray, deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, covering his wisdom on charging for content and his thoughts on changes at the Journal under Rupert Murdoch.
In this third installment, Murray, who oversees the Journal’s website, talks about what qualities he looks for in [...]

I feel I should point out that, although my name is Josh and I am from Louisiana, I am not the “Josh” from New Orleans who got a little mouthy with Rick Berke in this week’s Talk to the Newsroom feature at the Times. To quote “Josh”:
When you came up through the newspaper system, it [...]