William M. Hartnett

>Correspondents’ dinner features fun, frolicking, and MC Rove (LA Times)
(Via Romenesko)
Does the very idea of journalists and politicians, regardless of political affiliation, carrying on together in the manner described in the story above cause vomit to rise ever so slowly into the back of your throat? That’s what it does to me, anyway.

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>Want to Write for Wired’s Business Blog? (Wired)
(Via Ryan Sholin)
Wired is looking for a writer to join its business blog, and soliciting a topical blog post of 200 words or less instead of the usual resume.
This brings to mind the time I created an interactive mapping web site specifically for a single job interview, using [...]

Charles Petit over at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker calls our attention to the accumulating anecdotal evidence that “the decline in daily US newspaper science writers seems to be trudging along.”
It’s mental, really, that newspaper science writing is, by all appearances, dying. Aside from The New York Times, scarcely any paper in the country can [...]