Politico to Run Opinion Columns
Politico makes a foray into opinion journalism, hiring the MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and the columnist Michael Kinsley from The Atlantic to write dueling weekly columns.
The Unsettling New Era Of The Individual Journalist
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. No one doesn’t have an opinion on things they know something about. I may have no opinion on who the best NASCAR driver is (and I don’t) but that would certainly change if I started paying attention to the sport. Coming in to last month,...
Michael Kinsley, Opinion, and the Evolution of Media
The world of traditional media has overturned in the past decade - and few have ridden the crest of this wave more savvily than Michael Kinsley. As a pundit on CNN's "Crossfire," editing Slate, experimenting with the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and now at The Atlantic, Kinsley's philosophy has been an open...
Mirror Award Finalists Announced, Including Our Own Philip Bump
On Monday, finalists for the Mirror Awards — the Newhouse School's annual honoring of excellence in writing about journalism and the media — were announced, featuring some of the best writers and thinkers in our industry, including our own Philip Bump.The work of the finalists is excellent. One of our writers...
Newspapers Should Match Reader’s Attention Span: Short!
“One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news.”
Michael Kinsley’s piece in...
Short, Shorter, Shortest!
Michael Kinsley wants writers to get to the point. Done!
