The "circles" are dead. Long live the "circles." We know about the "circles" here in Columbia. We went through them in the 1990s. At The State. With Gil Thelen. It's not that we didn't like them. Something was needed to break the newsroom out of the old, hidebound model. But the circles with their b...

I've actually had a chance this morning to read almost all this month's Carnival of Journalism blog posts at Ryan Sholin's place, and when I got to Jack Lail's from Knoxville/Scripps-Howard, it occurred to me that if you want an example of today's conflicted thinking over newsrooms, contrasting the ...

I find myself having mixed emotions as I read Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie's memo outlining the news editing setup for the A section. (More in Jack Shafer's story from Friday that I just got to today.) Yeayyyy. They get it. We will remove layers of editing by providing greater fle...