Richard J. Tofel
Writer at Second Rough Draft
now consulting at Gallatin Advisory, teaching at @HarvardChanSPH, author of Second Rough Draft on Substack; former president of ProPublica
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1 week ago |
dicktofel.substack.com | Richard J. Tofel
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. One of the emerging trends in American journalism is an effort to establish what are being called “multi-local” outlets, digital newsrooms covering different communities but having a common corporate parent and gaining efficiencies through shared services.
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2 weeks ago |
dicktofel.substack.com | Richard J. Tofel
Longtime readers of this column may recall that I raised questions about President Biden’s age and the journalism being done (or mostly not being done) around it starting in the Fall of 2023. I returned to that issue the following winter. So when Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, was announced in February, I was especially eager to read it.
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2 weeks ago |
cjr.org | Richard J. Tofel
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In June 2023, more than seven months before the first Democratic primary of the presidential election, the Daily Mail asked a thousand voters for a word to describe each of the announced candidates.
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3 weeks ago |
dicktofel.substack.com | Richard J. Tofel
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. I don’t go to as many journalism conferences these days as I did when I had a real job, but three of the four or five I expect to attend this year happen to have been in the last month, and I saw a common emotion at them that I want to address this week. That emotion is fear.
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1 month ago |
dicktofel.substack.com | Richard J. Tofel
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. One of the most interesting—and I think hopeful—developments in and around journalism these days is the rise of the creator economy, independent journalists operating under new brands of their own.
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RT @edpadgett: Looking at the Biden “Cover-Up” Books, by @dicktofel https://t.co/Zhm1VjcZFd
RT @dannyfunt: Great piece. It’s tempting to blame some omissions of Original Sin on a rush job, since reporting began in Nov. — a rapid tu…
RT @charlesornstein: “Joe Biden failed the country in deciding to seek a second term. But the press also failed in its job to confirm, in u…