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Newspaper revenue: good news, bad news
The Newspaper Association of America takes some comfort, and with some reason, in the news that newspaper revenues declined only two percent in 2012, to $38. 6 billion, from $39. 5 billion the previous year. That's indeed something to cheer about when you consider that for the better part of a decade, industry revenues were plummeting from $57.
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Networks lose two veteran science reporters
Last month witnessed the retirement of two longtime science correspondents for network news, Ned Potter of ABC and Robert Bazell of NBC. RLM Finsbury, an international communications firm, issued a press release on March 21 announcing that it had hired Potter, who had worked as an on-air correspondent at ABC News from 1987 to.
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The reporter in the middle of the Aurora shooting trial
A FoxNews. com reporter could go to jail as early as Wednesday if Aurora, CO, movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes's legal team has its way. Jana Winter broke the news on July 25, 2012, that Holmes, whose rampage killed 12 people and injured 58, sent a notebook full of drawings such as "gun-wielding stick figures.
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Investigative collaboration, cross-border edition
A good sign that your investigation has hit the mark is when law enforcement agencies start demanding to see your data. That's the position the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists finds itself in as officials from Germany, Greece, South Korea, Canada, and the US have requested access to its massive exposé of the off-shore.
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Smart, straightforward sequester stories
Covering the effect of the across-the-board federal spending cuts does not have to be expensive, and it does not have to take a lot of time. But it does take some smarts and a readiness to do some research. Two pieces this week offer good models to other journalists. On Tuesday, Amanda Terkel and Sam Stein produced a smart.
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Copyright's new 'new law'
In the world that Maria Pallante, the US Register of Copyrights, inhabits, people sometimes call the Copyright Act of 1976 "the new law," though it took decades to develop and, it can be argued, was already outdated by the time Congress managed to pass it. But as Pallante said Thursday, in a talk at Fordham Law School's intellectual.
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Covering an Obamacare clawback: better late than never
What Congress giveth, it can also taketh away. And there's no clearer example than a provision in the Affordable Care Act that has the potential to make consumers plenty mad. At a time when millions of Americans still know nothing about the subsidies to help them pay for health insurance, the Associated Press now comes along to tell them.
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And that's the way it was: April 5, 1951
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were the first American civilians to be executed for espionage. They were charged with transmitting secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. On April 5, 1951, the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death. The couple was executed by electric chair just.
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Tidbits in the news
It seems like every day in the news cycle there is a fascinating tidbit I'd like to cover in Minority Reports. But I only write once a week, so, too often, I have to let those pieces go. I keep a running list of what I'd like to write about but haven't.
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Q&A: NewYorker.com editor Nicholas Thompson
On Tuesday, The New Yorker launched a science and technology page on its website, along with a companion blog called Elements. The new Science & Tech vertical, wedged prominently between Books and Business on the homepage, had been on NewYorker. com editor Nicholas Thompson's to-do list for a while, and in January he hired BuzzFeed's.
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