Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Science in The Simpsons [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Science Reporting

  Michael Hopkin interviewed Al Jean, the executive producer of The Simpsons show, about math and science, sometimes central, sometimes hidden, in the episodes of everyone's favourite show... Read the comments on this post...

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• In Brief: Reporter Jeff Bercovici, who got his start ...

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:41 pm

  Tags: Jeff Bercovici, On Reporting, Portfolio, Radar, Wwd

  Reporter Jeff Bercovici, who got his start (as far as we're concerned!) at WWD, is leaving Radar for... wait for it... Portfolio! To BLOG. Enjoy blogging, blogsy! Blog it up! Though he'll stay at...

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• Tillman

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:38 pm

  Tags: Reporting, Afghanistan, World, Politics

  Well, it’s now obvious why there was a cover-up of Tillman’s death in Afghanistan. There is a possibility that he was murdered. That certainly wouldn’t have looked good since he was considered a hero and was also a critic of the Iraq war. At least there was appropriate punishment, the general that was responsible for the

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• On Climate, Telling Stories and Providing Context [Framing Science]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Enviro Science Reporting

  In journalism, professional norms favor telling gripping stories about individuals and places. Applied to the debate over global warming, many journalists believe that if they can recast the complex issue in terms of familiar characters and local places, they can activate greater public concern and understanding. Yet it remains important that

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• NY Times Tests Our Literacy on Climate Change [Framing Science]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Enviro Science Reporting

  Last week I posted on the "Misunderstood Meanings of Science Literacy," noting that scientists, policymakers, and journalists tend to narrowly focus on the recall or correct identification of facts about science as the most important dimension of knowledge. Usually this is tested in quiz like survey questions. This week in its special Education

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• Wall Street Journal

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Reporting, Nation

  Kevin Drum, the NY Times is reporting that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has reached an agreement to buy Dow Jones and Co. (and so the Wall Street Journal). This is a very bad thing. The editorials in the Journal are some of the craziest, but the reporting is some of the best in the country. I hope the reporting won’t change, but

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• And Now You Know: How And Where 'Hamptons Style' Editor Deb Schoeneman Lives

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:20 pm

  Tags: Now You Know, Asked Answered, Deb Schoeneman, How They Live Themselves, Love You Mean It, Real Reporting, The Hamptons

  How does Deb Schoeneman—editor of Hamptons Style magazine, Portfolio blogger, and one-time long-time New York mag contributor—actually live? Unsurprisingly, in a large-ish Water Mill...

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• UPDATED: Another Dangerous Bridge in Twin Cities?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Original Reporting, Breaking News, I 35w Bridge

  UPDATE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune story provides additional support for my concerns about this bridge. The collapse of the 35W bridge over the Mississippi in Minneapolis will force truck traffic moving through the Twin Cities on to alternative routes. Unfortunately, after complaints from residents in wealthy neighborhoods near Grand Avenue in

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• Original Net Reporting: An Interview With Pete Hamill

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: Blogging, Books, Original Reporting, Internet News Media, Media

  TMV frequent Guest Reviewer Dan Schneider has a fascinating, in depth interview with journalist Pete Hamill on his own website. Here’s THE LINK TO IT and how it starts: DS: Pete Hamill, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed for The Dan Schneider Interview series. The very purpose of this series is to combat what I call the deliteracy'

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• Our Disaster

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:29 pm

  Tags: Original Reporting, I 35w Bridge

  Monstrous events often receive the simplest names — 9/11, Pearl Harbor, The Holocaust. Here in the Twin Cities, they simply call it “The Bridge” now. The naming happens spontaneously, there is no decision in City Hall or an editorial room or a TV news studio. Everyone simply starts calling it by a simple name and everyone

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• Biz media creates skewed view of the economy

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:32 am

  Tags: Commentary, Educational, Economics Reporting, Wall Street Journal

  Brian Westbury, the chief economist of First Trust Partners, writes on the Wall Street Journal that the business media often creates an unbalanced view of what’s going on in the economy. Westbury wrote, “I talk frequently with members of the print media and I am a regular guest on business TV shows. Both venues stress debate and

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• The problem with economics reporting

  Published: August 10, 2007, 2:38 am

  Tags: Commentary, Economics Reporting, Dow Jones Amp Co

  problems with economics reporting in the United States because of its current negative slant. Warshawsky wrote, “The people who write about economics plainly lack the ability to place economic ups and downs into a larger, more complete picture, or even to maintain logically consistent positions regarding the state of the American

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• Attack Of The Political Attack Websites

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:07 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Original Reporting, Internet News Media, Media, Fred Thompson

  some Internet investigative reporting. You have to ask yourself: just who does someone expect they will CONVINCE with a website like that? It’s not just preaching to the choir, but to a small segment of the choir, since people may like or dislike Fred Thompson (a factor that you can place money on increasing once he actually announces and

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• Original Blog Reporting: Talking Dog Interviews Marshall Onellion and Steven Fortney

  Published: August 11, 2007, 3:04 am

  Tags: Blogging, Original Reporting, Religion

  Once again The Talking Dog has a thought-provoking –and truly debate sparking — original weblog interview. (We’re running so many of these from that site that we’re close to letting TD post them himself). And this one is one were if we take a quote we’ll be taking it way out of context. So we’ll just give you

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• Tech journalists: We read blogs

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:55 am

  Tags: Information, Reporting Tips, Internet Web Sites

  another tool for doing good reporting. Others said that there still is no substitute for picking up the phone and calling a source. Read more about the study here.

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