"The struggle for academic patronage and the strained conditions of nearly all media properties have led to fewer jobs and fewer venues for substantial writing..."
- The New Republic

Writers and the CIA

There is a really interesting story in The New Republic about writers, literary magazines and the CIA. Patrick Iber writes about the history of the CIA’s attempt to impact culture and ideas. It’s fascinating literary history> “Today’s intellectuals approach their labors in a very different […]

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Revisionist History

Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast; it’s called Revisionist History. His style of storytelling lends itself to the podcast platform very well. The ten-week show will take a creative look at the past. ““Every week, I’m going to take you back into the past,” says Glad […]

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The Worst Job of 2015

The data tell the story: Newspaper reporter is the worst job of 2015. Jim Romenesko shares CareerCast’s latest survey of the best and worst jobs. Last year, it ranked 199 out of 200, but this year it was at the very bottom of the list. […]

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Marie Howe On Being

Krista Tippett’s recent guest on her show, On Being, was Marie Howe, the State Poet of New York and instructor at Sarah Lawrence College. It’s a wonderful interview about the power and mystery of poetry. Here she reads a new poem called “Magdelene-The Seven Devils,” […]

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Push v. Pull Media

A recent post at the Atlantic Wire shows that visits to the New York Times homepage fell by half over the past two years. A variety of data shows that readers no longer seek out media, but rather read only what is sent along on […]

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State of the News Media 2014

The Pew Research Journalism Project released its report of the state of the nation’s news. Part of the in-depth analysis looks at the changing revenue picture of the journalism industry, with this interesting paragraph: “As an industry, news in the U.S. generates roughly $63 billion […]

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Journey Through the Checkout Racks

Reading magazines from the early 1960s can show you not only how life has changed since then, but also how magazines themselves have changed. Laura Vanderkam has an interesting story in City magazine called Journey Through the Checkout Racks that looks at how women’s magazines […]

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