journalismism

The Boston Globe's Year in Giant-ass Pictures

Adrian Chen · 12/14/09 08:56PM

Everyone loves the Boston Globe's ginormous, online-only "Big Picture" feature. Now they've launched the first installment of a three-part "2009 in Photos" series. Very cool, very big pictures; it's features like this that make journalism on the Internet work. [Globe]

Editorial Shakeup at Ad Age

Hamilton Nolan · 12/10/09 01:48PM

In your frigid Thursday media column: Editorial turnover at Ad Age, Mediaite invites people more famous and attractive than you to their soiree, journalists prepare to forage, and Sarah Palin's only a few steps from the 99-cent store.

Google News Boss: We Are Your Friends, Newspapers

Ravi Somaiya · 12/09/09 08:00AM

The man who helps run Google News thinks all this antagonism with the print media is just silly. And says they get on great with Rupert Murdoch, despite that silly man's silly talk of removing his newspapers from their search.

The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million

John Cook · 12/08/09 06:04PM

On the afternoon of September 1, 2009, Gawker launched a wide-ranging, multi-front investigation into the hazing practices of a State Department contractor in Kabul. About an hour later, we published the shocking results. Today, the State Department listened.

The Laziest Journalists on Twitter

Ryan Tate · 12/08/09 10:00AM

Reporters everywhere are in love with "crowdsourcing," in which sources magically come to them, saving the reporters several backbreaking telephone calls. But some correspondents have gotten embarrassingly addicted to this journalistic crack cocaine. And it's time for a intervention.

The Twitter Song Is Media Thing of The Year

Hamilton Nolan · 12/07/09 01:19PM

In your monstrous Monday media column: TWITTERTWITTERTWITTER, a German plan to save newspapers, the shockingly democratized Portfolio.com, and Chicago sports writer wars. TWITTERTWITTERTWITTER.