Why Louisiana needs more oil spills
Who needs to steal looks at BP CEO Tony Hayward’s secret diary? Tony himself has agreed to contribute a few
Category: The Solomon Scandals
About Helen Thomas: Oy! But keep her name on the SPJ journalism award
I know—I’m a few days behind on the Helen Thomas controversy—but I wanted to reflect. This was a little close
‘Typestolgia’: A neologism for nostalgic typewriter lovers
In the 19th century the great change on the seas was from sail to steam, and in the newsroom during
‘David Rothman’ namesakes: Egosurfers, here’s what the rest of us are up to
I’ve remarked before on weird coincidences related to my name. Two letters, for example, distinguish me from David Roffman, at
The essential copy editor
See update at the end. – D.R. I’m zealously pro-copy editor. While I don’t always agree with CEs, I’d hate
Oily Gulf of Mexico: Singer Steve Forbert’s witty warnings—and a grim vision from a ‘polar cities’ artist
Could the Big Slick in the Gulf of Mexico be musician Steve Forbert’s career break, after years of kneejerk comparisons
Kent State Massacre 40 years later: ‘Get set!’ ‘Point!’ ‘Fire!’ orders said to be in enhanced recording
Four Kent State University students—including Bill Schroeder, an ROTC cadet whose funeral I wrote up for the Lorain Journal—died 40
Arizona guv vs. the ET threat? Aliens among us—even in the White House press corps? Earthling IDs needed?
Who says Arizona’s governor is a racist rabble-rouser willing to use Gestapo tactics against Hispanics and many other nonwhites by
Hyperlocal journalism: Georgetown publisher robbed—and eager to tell neighbors about it. Lesson for the Washington Post?
Update, 1:47 p.m.: Post rival’s local news strategy—a Poynter Institute item. – D.R. My online friend Beth Solomon, publisher of
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