Some of my Twitterfied friends took this literally, not noticing that when it showed up online here in the U.S., it was already April 1 across the pond.  Anyway, the tone is just right. Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink | Media | The Guardian .

Poisson d’avril! [Guardian]


Monday is the first day of the spring term at Northwestern.  It will have been four months, exactly, since I went out to pasture after 37 years at Tribune Tower. There has been a lot to think about, watching the news industry from the outside since Thanksgiving.  Ultimately, I suspect […]

The pasture is prologue


How Times Have Changed [Or Not] In Response to New Media, installment 14,441: Obama explaining why he decided to have a live Internet video chat:  “This is an experiment,” the president said in a video promoting the event, “but it’s also an exciting opportunity for me to look at a […]

whitehousechatroom.gov, then and now