I’ve recently been dealing more often with trade publications and have been interested to see how the editorial-business relationship differs from the traditional newspaper world I came out of.
There’s a lot more interaction between the advertising side and the editorial side. Stop the presses, I know — many Peepshow readers learned this years ago. But as NBC once said, touting reruns [...]

This morning at the National Conference for Media Reform, the people got what they’d been waiting for. Longtime PBS journalist Bill Moyers gave a keynote on the state of American media, and he didn’t disappoint the 3,000 in attendance.
Moyers is an old-fashioned Texas populist, working the same territory as the late Molly Ivins. Although his approach [...]

In other words, why do ordinary citizens travel hundreds or thousands of miles at their own expense to wrestle with questions of media and society? I mean, I understand why they’d spend all that money and time on someting important like a baseball game, but this?
For Valerie Traina of Denver, it’s because of a passion for [...]