Change in the air
Matt Welch, a columnist for Reason, interviewed me last fall for a piece he was writing on objective journalism and the sea change the business is facing. Given that the piece is really about national election coverage, I doubt that the editor of the no-Washington-bureau, no-national-correspondent News & Record was the best interview choice.
Makes no nevermind. He got what I told him right.
The striking thing is how much has already changed in our work between the interview and the magazine's publication. (It's the Feb. 5 edition but it came out sometime in January.)
Staffer Lex Alexander hadn't produced his memo, we hadn't embraced our course, and, well, I knew about a tenth of what I know now, which is about a tenth of what I should know. And, even since then, our editorial folks have gotten into the blogging act, we're experimenting with Podcasting, and we're learning from some of the best thinkers in the biz.
Just more evidence of the speed of change.
