David Carr, who writes the Media Equation column for The New York Times, says that despite cuts, the future of journalism has never looked brighter. "I look at my backpack that is sitting here and it contains more journalistic firepower than the entire newsroom that I walked into 30-40 years ago," he says.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/27/141658047/david-carr-the-news-diet-of-a-media-omnivore
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Paul Shaw, an award-winning graphic designer, typographer, calligrapher, and teacher at Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, tells the story of how New York City’s subway signage evolved from a "visual mess" to a uniform system using the Helvetica typeface. His illustrated book Helvetica and the New York City Subway System looks at how politics, economics, and bureaucratic forces shaped decisions made about the subway’s appearance as much as design ideas did. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/aug/04/helvetica-and-new-york-city-subway-system/
Highlights from the 92nd Street Y universe.
http://blog.92y.org/index.php/item/kurt_vonnegut_breakfast_of_champions_podcast/
A conversation with the New York Times' top editor Bill Keller on his paper and the radically changing news business.
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