Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, two long-time newspaper men with the Washington Post, heading into an ad break for their ESPN program, Pardon the Interruption, on Monday, May 23, 2011 [mp3]: Your browser is too crappy to support the audio element. TK: Here’s whats over: boxing and newspapers. MW: Yeah. Maybe not in that order. TK: And horse racing. [...]

When The Des Moines Register isn’t firing its high-profile staffers, they’re quitting. David Yepsen, the Register‘s senior political columnist, is expected to leave to become the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, the paper reported. (The New York Times‘ political blog The Caucus sounds pretty convinced that that he [...]

Today I’m reminded of a lesson I learned in a reporting 101 class: People die. People do not pass away. They do not meet Jesus. They do not cross over. They are not lost. People die.

And he has every right to be. Brian Duffy, recently laidoff cartoonist at the Register whose cartoons graced A1 for a couple decades, is pissed. And WHO, in true TV news fashion, is more than happy to play it big and dramatic.

The day after Thanksgiving is usually a slow news day but never fear, dear journalist, there is a HUGE cultural event that demands coverage! Time to throw everything you got at it! Luckily you had the forethought to build a database. Now make sure you’ve got a Twitter hashtag set. Then, on Friday, get some [...]