I didn’t watch the debate last night. I’m afraid I just can’t bring myself to watch presidential debates. Which helps explain why I’ve never really made it as a political reporter. But I can, after a suitable amount of time has passed, bring myself to read at least parts of the debate transcript. Such as [...]
Thomas Crampton posts a fascinating e-mail from the deputy editor of Singapore’s Straits Times–sent out in the wake of the news of pending layoffs at the New York Times: Would you know anyone within the NYT who could help us put out the word that we would be happy to take on some copy-editors, which [...]
One of the two major newspaper companies I can think of that have successfully made the transformation to the digital age closes its biggest deal ever today. Thomson Reuters is the name of the new organization, but it was a straight-out acquisition of Reuters by Thomson, the former owner of the Globe and Mail, the [...]
