Category Archives: Joel’s J School

Shoestring Ethics Policy

Posted on January 19, 2008 by admin

Ride hard, shoot straight and speak the shining truth.

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Nobody asked me, but…

Posted on January 15, 2008 by admin

I’m feeling left out. None of those political pollsters have called to find out who I plan to vote for in today’s Michigan presidential primary. Darn. But even if I’d gotten the call, chances are I couldn’t have answered. The … Continue reading →

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Debbie & Me, or, How to Write a Q & A and Not Get Ripped by the Public Editor

Posted on January 13, 2008 by admin

Back when I was still a slave to newspaper deadlines, I got worked up about a thrashing delivered to New York Times Magazine writer Deborah Solomon by the paper’s hired dean of conformity, Public Editor Clark Hoyt. My view on … Continue reading →

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Election coverage then and, well, then again

Posted on January 9, 2008 by admin

I thought this would not be about the Future of Newspapers. I was looking at the Detroit Free Press headline today, Jan. 9, 2007, that would have us readers believe that “Clinton, McCain win in night of comebacks” with the … Continue reading →

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The Future of Newspapers, Part 1.1

Posted on December 30, 2007 by admin

By Joel Thurtell When I started this blog, I fully intended to turn it into a carbon copy of the Detroit Free Press community newspaper whose pages ran my stories for the past several years. That was before I understood … Continue reading →

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The Future of Newspapers, Part I

Posted on December 11, 2007 by admin

Seems like the demise of newspapers is on people’s minds. I stopped at the Plymouth shop of glass blower Don Schneider, who gave me his take on the Detroit dailies’ apparently unstoppable descent toward doom. The Free Press and the … Continue reading →

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Joel on the road — what road?

Posted on December 5, 2007 by admin

By Joel Thurtell I’m looking for a muskrat cook. No, wait — that’s not how I wanted to start. Actually, what I want to do is explain — to myself first, then to my loyal readers — what this thing … Continue reading →

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