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The New York Times, in conjunction with the International Herald Tribune, now has a global edition. From the “about” page: Combining the international reporting of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, the Global Edition provides readers with a 24/7 flow of geopolitical, business, sports and fashion coverage from a distinctly global perspective. [...]
Nicholas Kristoff at the New York Times: The Daily Me. When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. Nicholas Negroponte of M.I.T. has called this emerging news product The Daily Me. And if that’s the trend, [...]
From Miller-McClune: Will Critique Work for Food Most newspapers continue to cover the world of culture using freelancers and (in the case of film and television) wire-service copy to supplement the remaining staff. A few, including the Los Angeles Times, have inaugurated blogs on their Web sites to get arts news out more quickly. On [...]
From the New York Times: Food Magazines Begin to Consider Cooks’ Budgets. As the high-end magazines try to survive a shaky 2009, it is out with the truffles, in with the button mushrooms. “There are ways in which we feel it should change,” said Dana Cowin, the editor in chief of Food & Wine, published [...]
The reports of journalism’s death are greatly exaggerated – but the landscape is changing.