Tag: newspapers

  • Breaking News Demonstrates the Value of Newspapers

    04 Mar 2022 » 4 min read

    The New York Times app was a mess when the news Russian’s invasion into Ukraine broke. All of the information was listed under their “Live” section which was a list of short “up-to-the-minute” reports, often just a single paragraph. These were listed reverse chronologically, with several of them each hour. This was breaking news, it…

  • “Do You Read All These Newspapers?”

    26 Mar 2021 » 3 min read

    “Do you read all these newspapers?” the clerk at the 7-Eleven asked me this past Sunday. I stop in at the 7-Eleven daily for the Washington Post, and on Sundays, both the Post and the New York Times. “Not every word,” I said, “but a lot of it.” I could have the papers delivered, but…

  • Morning Routines

    03 Dec 2019 » 3 min read

    After six months in the new house, I have finally settled into my morning routines. I use the plural because my routines vary by day of the week. I know this is something of an oxymoron. Routines are supposed to be consistent, and yet this is the world I live in and I have learned…

  • Do Fifth-Graders Still Learn to Read Newspapers?

    25 Jun 2019 » 4 min read

    Sitting in the terminal at Dulles International last week, I happened to look around me at the passengers waiting for their flights. While there were hundreds of passengers, I saw only a single newspaper among them—the one that I was reading. Later that week, while sitting in our Pittsburgh office, a co-worked passed by, did…