I’ve been listening to the podcast from John Dankosky’s “Where We Live” show about the panel discussion at the Mark Twain House earlier this week. I thought this little piece was illuminating about how the Internet and website metrics have changed the way newspeople make judgments about what stories to play, how to play them, [...]

This is a well-reported AJR narrative piece about the birth of a public service journalism operation from parts of the staff that used to work at The Courant’s larger sister, The Chicago Tribune. It has some things in common with the creation of CTMirror.org. The piece talks about the potential impact of allowing the Chicago [...]