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The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialAug 22, 2026
Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas”
I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published reports on a free air conditioner and free printer left out for the taking in Brooklyn, New York City, but...
bloggingnewspapers
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 31, 2026
Letter to the Editor Backlink in Chicago Sun Times
I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago Sun Times backlink, so I checked to see what it was about. On July 1, 2026, the paper published America 250-inspired letters to the editor. One of these letters, from Harvey...
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Scattered Thoughts And Other Things
Scattered Thoughts And Other ThingsJul 25, 2026
Reading Old Newspapers - 1906-12-19
Marketing sure has come a long way!
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historynewspapers
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 7, 2026
Postscript
Mass layoffs are a fact of life in journalism. Your favorite writers and editors have dealt with them. But they weren’t supposed to happen at The Post.
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washington postjournalism
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetOct 30, 2024
Caught In The Middle
The mess with Bezos and The Washington Post is reflective of a trend that keeps popping up this year: The powerful entity stepping in it without considering the collateral damage.
jeff bezosamazon
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetOct 15, 2024
Gatekept
Thoughts on a bruise to the ol’ ego that hurt a little more than I thought it would. But hey, it gives me a chance to talk about gatekeeping.
gatekeepingwriting
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 2, 2023
A Dylanesque Negotiating Strategy
One of the news industry’s biggest, longest-standing problems is that they do not value the work they create at the level it deserves. They should take a cue from the music industry’s biggest stars.
newspapersartificial intelligence
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 18, 2023
Old Archives, New Controversy
The New York Times has the most robust online archives of any newspaper, but it’s proving difficult to square their handling of a recent controversy with the quality of those archives.
new york timesnewspapers
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 21, 2022
USA Yesterday
Looking back at a sports-themed online service the now-40-year-old USA Today launched way back in 1989. Not all disks were left unscathed.
usa todaynewspapers
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 13, 2022
Longform Brevity
Alt-form storytelling, a key magazine-and-newspaper design trend, hasn’t truly flourished on the modern internet. Axios could go way further than it does.
journalismbullet points
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 8, 2021
Cut-Up Culture
Pondering how coupons became the lingua franca of the grocery store, and why they might be important to the survival of the newspaper.
couponsdiscounts
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 24, 2021
Dead on Archival
Considering the challenges that face shuttered newspapers with decades or even centuries of material to preserve.
newspapersjournalism
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 19, 2021
Pushing Photos Through Wires
The technology used to distribute photos through news wire services inspired a whole bunch of innovations with use cases beyond newspapers. Like television.
newspapersphotography
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 10, 2021
How I Research Stuff
If you’re a longtime reader of Tedium, you might wonder how I manage to uncover so many strange stories. Well, let me tell you. Hopefully it’s inspiring.
researchresearch materials
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetOct 20, 2020
Strip-Mined News
Local newspapers have already faced issues with outsourcing and an array of cuts for years. But the threat is changing—and you should know what it looks like.
newspapersjournalism
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 11, 2020
News In Small Bytes
Newspapers said they wanted to protect the print product, but they were raring to go when it came to experimental online news approaches in the early '80s.
internetinternet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 7, 2019
Just The Fax, Ma’am
Newspapers once saw fax machines as an opportunity to distribute breaking news to the masses—then they saw it as a way to reach the niches. Neither worked out.
faxfax machine
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 12, 2019
The Free Ride’s Over
For decades, ad-supported free daily newspapers defined commuting. But the Washington Post Express’ demise shows the model is headed towards the history books.
newspapersjournalism
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 2, 2019
Wiki-Fail
Looking with fresh eyes at the Wikitorial, the Los Angeles Times’ extremely misguided attempt to bring the wiki concept to the newspaper editorial page.
newspaperswikipedia
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 19, 2018
Rethinking the Funny Page
With the loss of one newspaper comics-page giant and the departure of another, now’s a good time to reflect on whether the whole model needs to be reworked.
beetle baileycomic books
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 7, 2017
Trimmed For Space
As the newspaper industry contracted, so too did the furniture and the newsprint. Let's check out the first victims of the digital revolution.
businessnewspapers
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 18, 2017
CMYK All The Way
How mass-production printing technology, starting with the lithograph, was pushed forward thanks to a growing interest in color.
printingcolor
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 14, 2016
Honey, I Shrunk The Page
Microfiche (or microfilm, depending on how you roll) is a library mainstay, but its history is wild, according to this note I got from a carrier pigeon.
microfichemicrofilm
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 21, 2015
The Invention Of News
The field of public relations is still built on a single foundational tool—the press release. Why do we still use them? Well, for the companies, they work.
brandingmedia