I love that we’re discussing both these topics: staff evaluation criteria, and advertiser influence in the newsroom. But I’m going to side with my old Wall Street Journal boss Norm Pearlstine – now the chief content officer at … read more
Training middle managers “is like a dose of vitamin C for your immunity system.” … read more
What is the worst a publication can do when limiting editors who are trying to add nuance to their analyses of important situations in their industries? Surely, the worst is captured in this New York Times story about … read more
By Roy Harris Please allow me a brief diversion from discussing the day-to-day challenges of dealing with journalism’s vast issues to mention the huge debt that so many of us editors owe our parents. I thought of this … read more
By Roy Harris In discussing Norm Pearlstine’s return to Time Inc. after a long, productive stint at Bloomberg, New York Times columnist Joe Nocera raises serious questions about the nature of the chief content officer position. Nocera has something … read more
The Stephen Barr Award—the prestigious prize administered by the not-for-profit ASBPE Foundation—has lost its godmother. ASBPE’s leadership was shocked by the news that Judith Keller Barr had died suddenly, of a heart attack, on Sept. 24. She had … read more
The ASBPE Foundation‘s second annual student-writing-award collaboration with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) resulted in Canadian journalism student Virginia Sexsmith winning for an article she wrote about the troubled profession of print copy-editing. … read more
By Roy Harris As a presenter at ASBPE’s annual honors for B2B journalism excellence, the Azbees, I always get emotional presenting their crown jewel: The crystal trophy representing the Stephen Barr Award. Stephen Barr was a friend, as … read more
By Howard Rauch “How can I reorganize the role of the editors to focus more on revenue generation? How is that possible without crossing the line between editorial and advertising, which already is blurred by more advertorials, cover … read more
