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Seth Reiss and the lowercase J joke

The other day, I spiraled down one of those deep Internet sinkholes. Bottom was this Fury Files interview with Seth Reiss, head writer of The Onion. If you’re not familiar with The Onion, it’s a site...

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Malcolm Gladwell on his new book and reporting

With a new book to promote, Malcolm Gladwell joined Longform’s podcast recently for an enjoyable conversation. Give it a listen. Gladwell talked extensively about “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits...

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Now Reading: The future of news, Norman Mailer, Chris Bosh, David Remnick

‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology...

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Now Reading: Junod on George Clooney, women in sports, Lee Harvey Oswald

‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology...

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Chuck Culpepper will go anywhere for anything, damn it, and good for him

I could be totally wrong about this, but it feels like digital media is just beginning to figure out that it’s, in the vast majority of cases, supposed to be something altogether different than media...

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The archive of the Internet

Apropos of nothing, over the weekend I was thinking about the mere hours a significant amount of content is relevant on the Internet. It probably was spurred by the deluge of stuff around the Super...

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Now Reading: True Detective, journalism in the new media world, Elisabeth...

A selection of stories I read around the Web today … True Detective finale Slate’s David Haglund and Willa Paskin exchanged emails immediately after the finale and break it down … Haglund is more OK...

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Nick Bilton’s ‘Hatching Twitter,’ part I

We’ve got two new books in the mix currently, and let’s start with the one I’m most excited about (and thoroughly enjoying): Nick Bilton’s ‘Hatching Twitter: A true story of money, power, friendship...

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Here’s a great lesson on reporting from The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin

Recently, Jeffrey Toobin wrote a compelling piece in The New Yorker about the Baltimore City Detention Center, and today he had a post on the Internet about how he found some of his sources for the...

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The New York Times innovation report in three takeaways

The New York Times innovation report has been described as one of the most important documents ever for the digital media business. Given where we are in digital media – a place that has seen media...

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