Editor-in-chief of Reuters News David Schlesinger told a Hong Kong audience Oct 15 that journalism today is less about delivering straight facts than providing actionable information. “That’s why this is the age of the publisher,” he said. “Journalists who understand this will survive. Those who don’t will be irrelevant.” Schlesinger was speaking as part of […]

Update: I made an error in using the term “of Brazilian descent” when discussing the Census Bureau data. The number cited below are those born in Brazil. To be clear, the Census Bureau does not ask a persons residency status. First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World Part 1 Here’s to Boston.Com for understanding […]

Seems Macy’s is once again showing that companies can help people affected by disaster and make a profit. And it provides an opportunity for LOCAL reporters to do a story with a GLOBAL hook. The Globe and Mail of Toronto had a story yesterday about how Macy’s will be selling the work of Haitian artists. […]

First posted on the DC SPJ site and the SPJ International Journalism Committee site. Last Friday CBS News did a story about how Americans are craving different spices. NPR did the same story two weeks earlier. At the time of the NPR piece I did a blog entry here (Getting a local story from international […]

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World. Just catching up on some stuff. One of my favorite annual surveys is the Economists’ Big Mac Index. (My other favorite is the Durex Global Sex Survey, although they are a couple of years late in doing their latest one.) The Big Mac Index looks at whether […]