Best Environmental Journalism of 2009

Scott Dodd, 12.29.2009

Environmental journalist

Major news organizations are cutting science reporters, stoking fears that important journalism on environmental issues is in danger of drying up.

E&P Enters What May Be Its Final Week After 125 Years

Greg Mitchell, 12.28.2009

Author, "Why Obama Won"

At 2 p.m. today we ship the possibly final issue of Editor & Publisher from our office here at Astor Place in NYC. For the record, it is the January 2010 issue, so we made it into our 126th year, at least.

Video: Exclusive: Google News to Share "Fast Flip" Through Open API

Andy Plesser, 12.25.2009

Executive Producer and Founder, Beet.TV

Just as Google Maps allows users to put images onto their sites, there will be an open API for Google's "Fast Flip," Google's Josh Cohen tells Beet.T...

Shallow Reporting or Hidden Agendas: A Rant About Newspapers

Christin Evans, 12.27.2009

Owner, Booksmith

Our biggest complaint with newspapers is the shallow reporting that is regularly printed in the name of news. For an example of such reporting, we turn to the world of independent bookstores.

Amid E&P Crisis: I'm Worse Off Than Michael Jackson?

Greg Mitchell, 12.18.2009

Author, "Why Obama Won"

In a list of "famous people" who had a very bad year in 2009, I came in at #18, behind Tiger, Madoff and Carrie Prejean. I guess that puts the likely folding of my magazine, Editor & Publisher, in some perspective.

Editor & Publisher magazine closes after 125 years

Jarvis Coffin, 12.14.2009

CEO & President, Burst Media

After 125 years as the "bible" of the newspaper business, Editor & Publisher magazine announced yesterday that it would shut its doors at the end of t...

A Case for Journalism in a Post-Newspaper World From the Mother of a Would-Be Journalist

Heidi Sinclair, 12.11.2009

Chief Executive Officer, Heidi Sinclair & Co.

The newspaper may be dying, but the act of accurately chronicling our times, reporting, and observing is greatly needed for society to be informed and knowledgeable and progressive.

While Dying, Editor & Publisher Showed Journalism How To Live

Will Bunch, 12.11.2009

Author, "Tear Down This Myth"

While I greatly mourn E&P's passing, I want to call attention to the splendor of its final years, when it died like a supernova, with a great burst of energy.

E&P's Death Shows How Badly Newspapers Are Hurting

Bill Mann, 12.11.2009

TV-Radio Critic, www.dcweasels.com

For us career newspaper people, it won't be the same world without E&P. But then again, it hasn't been for years. It's a different media world today, and E&P's shuttering merely confirms it -- in boldface.

Continuing Education Through The Newspaper

Terry Gardner, 12.07.2009

Freelance Journalist

If newspapers were dinosaurs (as some claim), why would they be helping me with my continuing education? Frankly, I like getting a bit of news print on my fingers every morning.

Climate Change: How Come US Newspapers Don't Like This Issue?

Michael Wolff, 12.07.2009

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

My friend Ian Katz, a senior editorial figure at the Guardian newspaper in London, and a prime mover of an initiative to create one editorial on clima...

Newspapers Turning Into A Glorified "Greensheet"

Jackson Williams, 12.04.2009

Austin-based writer

A. H. Belo has just announced in an internal memo that some "section editors" (news editors) at all of the company's papers, will now report directly to the corporate team of "sales managers."

Goodbye to USA Today...And All of That

Chris Gray Faust, 12.03.2009

Former Travel Editor, USA TODAY

To the managers who made the decision to lay me off, in less than 140 characters I tell you: Good luck steering the Titanic. And thanks for the head start. Now I'm really going to run.

"Don't Be Evil": How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Really Think and Should We Worry About Google's Dominance

Anis Shivani, 12.03.2009

Writer

We shall see if Larry and Sergey's collective brain can keep up with the spontaneous evolution of the Internet.

You Say You Want A Revolution? The Virtual One Is Almost Here

James Boyce, 12.03.2009

Founder Common Sense NMS, dotPAC

Bet for the top story of 2010 being the Internet Revolution. The next two to three years are when we are going to see the Internet become what we all thought it would be.

Inspiring Young People to Write

Joel Arquillos, 12.01.2009

Executive Director at 826LA

When a student like Cesar Guajardo takes the initiative to write about something he feels very passionate about, 826LA is there to help him develop his ability to express his ideas clearly and confidently.

Old Newsmen Never Die...And the White House Party Crashers Weren't Working Alone

Michael Wolff, 12.01.2009

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

There is a club in the West 40s in Manhattan which includes among its members many old newsmen who, curiously, have sworn, on pain of expulsion, never...

Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism

Arianna Huffington, 12.03.2009

The new paths to media success are still being charted, and much remains uncertain. But this much is clear: we can't use an analog map and expect to find our way in a digital world.

Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection

Linda Milazzo, 12.03.2009

Writer/Educator/Activist

Dick Cheney has committed unconstrained, and as yet unprosecuted offenses, that include circumventing the Constitution and lying the nation into war.

The Frenzy About White House Gatecrashers: Did the Media Overreact?

Michael Russnow, 11.29.2009

Screenwriter, former Member Writers Guild West Board of Directors

Should the Salahis be boiled, flogged, or has the media made it much more than it really was?

How Budget Cuts at the Times Helped Give NYC Bloomberg III

Steven G. Brant, 11.16.2009

Developer of sustainable local, national, and international development strategies

Why weren't Bloomberg's well-known plans for global business news domination a bigger issue in the recent mayoral race? There was a failure of reporting at the Times caused by budget cuts.