After 20 years of promoting excellence in journalism on families, the University of Maryland’s Journalism Center on Children and Families will close at the end of 2014. In a post […]
On Science Blogs: Grim population news; sex; and WordPerfect.
I knew something was off on Friday, and it didn’t have anything to do with Halloween. Finally, after hours of introspection (when I should have been writing), it came to […]
Newsweek: Did son’s autism drive a woman to murder?
In February, 2010, Gigi Jordan checked into the Peninsula Hotel in New York where, she has admitted, “she intentionally gave her 8-year-old son a fatal overdose of drugs,” according to The […]
NPR disbanded its climate and energy team–and nobody noticed.
It seems nobody noticed until last Friday, but National Public Radio has disbanded its four-member climate and energy team. In January, Vikki Valentine, the team’s editor, was reassigned to lead […]
Move over, Amazon: PBS, Harper’s mag in ad war?
While the publishing world has been trying–and failing–to come up with a strategy to defeat Amazon in its war against Hachette, another media battle has been joined by people who […]
Editor’s pick: The best 10 essays since 1950.
Robert Atwan, the founder of The Best American Essays series, has put together a list for Publishersweekly.com of the 10 best essays since 1950. Tracker readers will be glad to […]