From CJR, Dean Starkman on the Great Story: In the run-up to the Great Recession, accountability journalism saw the story that access journalism missed. The Front Page 2.0: In most hand-wringing debates about the future of newspapers, high-quality journalism is seen as doomed by the Internet; Michael Kinsley begs to disagree. Who cares if it’s true? Modern-day newsrooms reconsider their values. Derek Thompson on why audiences hate hard news — and love pretending otherwise. Marc Anderssen thinks the news business is about to grow 1,000 percent. Optimism is the only option: The Washington Post’s Marty Baron on the state of the news media. Journalism and the CNBC Effect: Steven Waldman reviews The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism by Dean Starkman. Felix Salmon is against beautiful journalism. Nine weeks to launch Vox — it’s easier to go downhill than up. Rebecca Onion on newspapers, a brief interlude in a multimedia world: History shows that today’s information free-for-all is the norm. Madder than hell: James Parker on how Network anticipated contemporary media. Matthew Yglesias on how The New York Times lost the internet, and how it plans to win it back. As financial pressures force newspapers to close or make cuts, college journalism students are picking up the slack in many communities. David Carr: Anyone trying to predict the future of journalism “is going to get clobbered”. Will John Henry save the Boston Globe? Maybe, but his ambitions are much grander. Justin Fox on a new golden age for media: An era of investment in the news business is upon us — will it last?
