Archive for August 7th, 2007

Newspaper offices in Google Maps Street View »

By William M. Hartnett on Aug 7, 2007 in featured, newspaper buildings | 7 Comments

For no particular reason, apart from the fact that Google Maps now has Street View imagery in four new cities, and that I just think it’s kind of cool, let’s go on a tour of newspaper offices. First up is the Orlando Sentinel:

I was hoping to see the old New York Times building, but West [...]

Howard Kurtz would rather write about haircuts »

By William M. Hartnett on Aug 7, 2007 in featured, newspapers | 0 Comments

Gordon Trowbridge of The Detroit News’ Washington bureau brought these two maddening passages from a Howard Kurtz web chat at washingtonpost.com on Monday to the attention of the NICAR mailing list:
Louisville, Colo.: Hi Howard, Amid the calls for increasing taxes after the Minnesota bridge collapse, the media has done almost no presentation of what is [...]