David Funkhouser, former Courant environmental writer reports in…

Spent last weekend at the Nieman writing conference in Boston and discovered their brand new Journalism Lab — http://www.niemanlab.org/ — which is looking at the future of journalism in many interesting ways. Latest issue of Nieman Reports is filled with articles about what’s going on out there, and the J-Lab site has a fascinating array of pieces on where the craft is headed.
– for those like me who seem to have some time on their hands…