State of the Media
State of the Media: Joining the GOP Circus
Where’s the Line between Journalist and Source?
For the next several months, plenty of eyes will turn to Texas for insider intelligence. The emails of Austin-based firm Stratfor, a private global security ana...Read More
An Extraordinary Legacy for Legacy Media
I recently exchanged emails with a reader about whether one has to have some sort of socio-cultural DNA to actually get this place—to really decipher Texas. D...Read More
Perry’s Campaign Shed Light on Texas Environment
In September, a high-ranking Manhattan editor who worked on Scott McClellan’s bestselling takedown of the Bush administration told me she was inundated with b...Read More
The Next Generation of Guerilla Warriors
The big term bandied about in media circles these days is impact journalism. Cause-and-effect journalism. The kind of journalism that gets people talking, uncor...Read More
Meet the New Media, Same as the Old Media
The sad news out of San Antonio this fall is that Cary Clack, one of the stalwarts of that city’s journalism community— hell, one of the gems of modern Texa...Read More
A Tale of Two Editors
In September, two Texas editors announced they were stepping down—Fred Zipp at the Austin American-Statesman and Robert Rivard at the San Antonio Express-News...Read More
In Defense of Informed Subjectivity
Somewhere, Molly Ivins is laughing at this season’s contradictory political coverage. News stories say one thing about Texas Gov. Rick Perry; blogs such a...Read More
Remixing Dubya
Rick Perry’s run for the White House is a stark reminder that not too long ago an identical media game plan was mapped out in Austin for then-Gov. Dubya: Tout...Read More
Muckraking 2.0
The promise of small-staff and “citizen” journalism is coming to fruition in Texas—excellent, often unheralded, investigative sites are moving well beyond...Read More