Suggestions for Seniors Graduating from College
By Daniel R. Schwarz

Last August I published a Huffington blog, "Ten Suggestions for Incoming Freshmen," that received more attention than I expected. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-r-schwarz/ten-suggestions-for-incom_b_1743447.html

Since I have been a Cornell professor for 45 years and am in touch with hundreds of...

Someone who attended one of my talks on my recent book Endtimes? Crisis and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009 told me that on his way to my talk, he ran into a friend who had decided not to attend and who said: "Why should I listen to an...

Is the new public editor fulfilling her responsibility or is she missing the big picture?

The controversy over James M. Broder's article about his test drive of a Tesla electric car is not a major issue but rather a tempest in a teapot, and the attention Times Public Editor...

Because I am the author of the 2012 book Endtimes? Crisis and Turmoil at the New York Times and several Huffington Post blogs about the Times since the book's publication, and because I have been on CSPAN and quite a few NPR and other radio stations discussing my book, I...

The September 30 Sunday Times's front page obituary for Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, 1926-2012, the New York Times's publisher from 1963-92 -- and grandson of Adolph Ochs, who bought the Times in 1896 -- was a well-deserved in house encomium, even if it bordered, especially its length, on hagiography....

Michael Lewis' excellent article, "Obama's Way," about the Obama White House in the October issue of Vanity Fair raises some interesting questions about sourcing in political journalism. By allowing the White House to approve quotations--which he has admitted--he surrendered some of his independence as a journalist in exchange for access.

"It is true that when you interview people you do develop relationships, and there is some pressure not to burn the people you admire and rely on." (David Brooks, NY Times, June 30, 2010)

"From Capitol Hill to the Treasury Department, interviews granted only with quote approval have become...

"We have people who understand print very well, the best in the business. We have people who understand advertising well, the best in the business ... Our future is on to video, to social, to mobile. It doesn't mirror what we've done. It broadens what we are going to do."...

Since the publication of my book, Endtimes: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times 1999-2009, I have been blogging about the media for the Huffington Post. But today, with the fall term approaching, I want to wear another hat, namely that of Cornell English Professor, a position that I...

"It's not print paper that I value for itself of all things; it's the ability to keep in place this fantastic news gathering machine. If economics change enough, if people don't want print paper, then why should we put out a print paper?" (Former Deputy Managing Editor and now Culture...

On July 16, the New York Times announced that its fifth public editor would be Margaret M. Sullivan, "the first woman to hold this position."

In addition to being the first female public editor, something that had been called for in some circles and which I expected...

In examining the radical changes in the dissemination of news, we need to examine not only how newspaper and news media are evolving from providing historically accurate records, but also how the expectations of the audiences have changed.

Even as the Internet has opened the gates of information and replaced...

Worrying about the fluctuating price of Facebook and whether Morgan Stanley properly managed the IPO misses the major historical and cultural point of what happened. What we should be asking is the significance of Facebook's opening capitalization (number of shares times price of shares, originally $38) at over $100 billion...

Worrying about the fluctuating price of Facebook and whether Morgan Stanley properly managed the IPO misses the major historical and cultural point of what happened. What, we should be asking, is the significance of Facebook's opening capitalization (number of shares times price of shares, originally $38) at over...

The Times is a news product that has become as much a hybrid magazine-newspaper on both its Internet site and its print version. Once it was the "Paper of Record," printing maps, excerpts from -- if not complete -- historical documents, the names of cabinet members of important and not...