[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 [...]

— Mario Garcia applauds upcoming changes at Newsweek and says hurrah for more opinion: “Objective journalism, in this case, is more about the accuracy and fairness of the piece, and NOT necessarily in keeping viewpoints out of the mix.”
— Clay Shirky brings the smackdown on micropayments.
— Simon Owens writes about The Printed Blog, which I [...]

[Here's Zach's review of Chapter 2 of this month's Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection. For more info, check here. —Ed.]
The New York Sun was one of the first non-partisan newspapers in the United States, and it might have been the country’s last partisan newspaper as well. What happened in the intervening 175 years was [...]

— Via Adrian Monck, British political cartoonist Matt Buck wonders about the future of his profession:
So, are we going to see people like me directly employed by political factions again in the future? And if that happens, will it be a good or a bad thing? Is it a return to the roots of [...]