Outside the Beltway

A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice

Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune posted a want ad for an investigative reporter and it’s gone viral.

Radley Balko and his blogs are moving to Huffington Post.

Fewer Americans are watching cable news networks, and that’s not surprising.

Glenn Beck’s own website discovers some interesting, and ethically disturbing, editing in the latest round of video’s from “ACORN Pimp”James O’Keefe.

While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

While the prestige outlets of the halcyon days of the last millennium still hold some cachet for those of us old enough to remember that era, they mean next to nothing on the Web.

A new site will identify news articles based on press releases rather than journalism.

Politico (Jay Carney got $270K from Time magazine after leaving) has uncovered a major payola scandal. Or is hyping a complete non-story.

The White House Press Office produces a blog, YouTube channel, Flickr photo stream, Facebook and Twitter profiles, and daily video programming.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.

The same people who were complaining a week ago that the media was obsessed with Sarah Paln are now complaining that a media figure has suggested she doesn’t deserve the coverage she gets.

Sarah Palin was “interviewed” by Sean Hannity last night. I doubt she helped herself.

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

Is Jon Stewart the next Edward R. Murrow? No.

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.

Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?

The Washington Independent goes dark in December, failing to find profitability in three years.

Is the current media environment a problem for proper political discourse?

US News & World Report is going to stop printing magazines, except for a handful of niche issues like the annual college and graduate school ranking guides.

A longish NYT postmortem titled “Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan” attributes Tuesday’s Republican victories to a January 2009 PowerPoint presentation. But structural factors were more important.

After three months, Rupert Murdoch’s strategy of walling off the Times websites isn’t looking so smart.

She didn’t gain national prominence until late August, and she’s going to most likely lost by a wide margin tonight, but Christine O’Donnell received more coverage from the media than any other candidate running in 2010.

The Delaware Senate race took a trip into the gutter yesterday.

Craig Newmark thinks NPR’s membership model will overtake advertising-supported news over the next decade.

The man best known for staging the “Acorn Pimp” videos is back in the news with an even more bizarre story.

A third of the Forbes 50 were born billionaires. Does that mean the game is fixed?

An amusing parody of the typical press report on a new scientific finding.

It’s getting harder and harder to tell blogs from newspapers.

OTB’s James Joyner and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald discuss WikiLeaks and its implications for journalism on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story.”

Political campaigns are engaging in a new form of “new media outreach” — paying bloggers for favorable coverage.

Blogs are all grown up now and indistinguishable from other online media.

The Washington Post Company, which famously accepted Dave Weigel’s resignation from its namesake newspaper last month, has hired him back in essentially the same job for its online magazine Slate.