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Is ‘For Women Only’ Good for Men and Women?
Nicole Rodgers and Hugo Schwyzer discuss whether or not the Huffington Post’s new ‘Women’s Section’ does good or harm for women and men. In August the Huffington Post officially launched a new Women’s...
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The Media Wants You Dead
Carl Pettit explains how the stress of breaking news, 24/7, is breaking you down. The news media is trying to kill you. The key word here is ‘trying.’ News organizations don’t actually want you dead,...
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Cool Deed of the Day: The Chicago Tribune Bought the Boston Globe Lunch (PHOTO)
We all know the Globe had a rough week. The Tribune decided to do something nice about it. Jennifer Peters, Metro Editor of The Boston Globe (@GlobeJenPeter), tweeted that earlier today the Chicago...
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5 Ways to be Alternative
Gint Aras believes it’s easy to be cool. But alternative? That’s a bit more challenging. —- You know who you are. You’re not square. You’re not like those people over there, those regular people, the...
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Work Like Hell and Don’t Stop: Pass it On
A seasoned career veteran offers practical suggestions to a frustrated 22-year-old. —– In a turn of events that leaves members of my family incredulous, people occasionally ask me for advice. The...
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Was Jill Abramson Ousted Because She Wanted Equal Pay?
The New York Times’ decision to fire its executive editor is another in a long line of questionable moves involving discrimination. On Wednesday, The New York Times fired executive editor Jill...
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What The Press Has Really Lost
Our national news coverage is probably better than ever, but our local news is falling apart. Reporters like to complain about all sorts of things now that news and publishing have moved online. Some...
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How Movies Move You: The Power of a Story
Embed from Getty Images Spotlight illuminates the unique power of journalism to expose societal scandals. — Like All The President’s Men before it, Spotlight, which was released recently to critical...
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What Are Good Men Reading This Summer? (Call for Conversation and Submissions)
Besides reading The Good Men Project during lunch and on the weekends, what are you reading this summer? Beach books, hardcover, political thriller, latest nonfiction, serious literature, graphic...
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Child Rape In India On The Rise
Embed from Getty Images — Investigative Journalist of the International Criminal Court against Child Kidnapping The face of eight-year-old Asifa Bano is plastered on newspapers all across the world....
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Newsrooms Still Have a Place in the World
Embed from Getty Images — Imagine waking up one morning, going into your job, doing all the “to-do” checklist things—and a major event happens. Your well-planned day just changed. People scurry around...
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Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, ‘the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere’
Marlene Daut, University of Virginia Marvel’s blockbuster “Black Panther,” which recently became the first superhero drama to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, takes place in the secret...
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News Break
The Algorithms Between Us It was the summer of 1998, and I was interning at a radio news bureau in Washington, D.C. The Lewinsky Scandal broke that year, which eventually led to Bill Clinton’s...
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Picture This – Visualising Newspaper Data
— by Luke McKernan What are newspapers made of? One could say that they are made of accounts of current events, collected in the form of a document for the interest of a particular readership. One...
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The Daily War
— By Luke McKernan January 2014 naturally sees the start of many First World War centenary commemorations, even if the war itself did not begin until 28 July 1914. Newspaper sources are going to be...
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Charlie’s Debut
— By Luke McKernan 100 years ago, on 2 February 1914, the film Making a Living was released by the Keystone Film Company. It was a comedy, one reel long (1,000 feet, or around 10 minutes), directed by...
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10 Great Online Newspaper Archives
— By Luke McKernan The sheer number of digitised newspaper resources out there is astonishing. In a period of not much more than ten years ago when the first newspaper digitisation project got...
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The Newsroom
— The Newsroom – it’s a good name. It’s a place where any kind of news gets made, be it print, broadcast or web. It’s at the heart of information. It’s a point from which we can look out and see the...
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Reading All About It
— There are many books on news and current affairs, but most are aimed at an academic or professional audiences. There has been a notable lack in the past few years of books aimed at a general...
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You’re Bad!
— I had a conversation with my brother yesterday about Thom Hartmann’s Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. John is a farmer with sophisticated literary tastes and a refreshingly unconventional. earthy...
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