The Fromson File

If you wonder what you’ll be missing when newspapers vanish, consider two stories that appeared in morning newspapers that have yet to make it to the online geniuses who will decide the content of alternative journalism in the near future. Both examples deal with the infuriating decisions rendered by the bureaucrats in the service of [...]

The imminent closure of the Cox Newspapers’ Washington bureau is one more piece of bad news for journalism. It followed word from the Newspaper Association of America that newspaper advertising revenues fell almost $2 billion in the third quarter for a record 18.1% decline. With the shrinkage of so many newsrooms in response to the [...]

I was hoping more would have been written, marking the demise of the Los Angeles Times‘ Washington bureau last week It certainly deserved more than a few lines of copy; more than a “30″ to mark the end of a distinguished chapter of journalism. Try the loss of pride, dignity and self-respect by the owners [...]