[Here's our final excerpt from Ken Doctor's new book, Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get. It's a Q&A with Nancy Shute, a veteran science writer who is adjusting to life as a specialist in the new media world. —Josh]
Nancy Shute, a twenty-year veteran of U.S. News & World Report, has [...]

More knowledge is a good thing, especially when it comes from top-flight research institutions. But the launch of Futurity, a nonprofit news service specializing in science and medicine, underscores what Dan Gillmor describes as the challenge of the “almost journalist.”
Futurity was created by universities frustrated by the disappearance of newspaper reporters and column inches dedicated [...]

As we noted yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news went to The New York Times for its coverage of the Eliot Spitzer scandal. But since breaking news is perhaps the one area where Internet journalism most outshines print, we wanted to take a look at the two other finalists in the category and tease [...]