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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!I am so proud to report that Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence has been named online columnist of the year by the Society of Professional Journalists, which announced the winners of the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on Monday. Jill, who luckily for us left USA Today to join Politics Daily's staff shortly before our launch a year ago, was honored for her "Sharp Eye on Washington, [with] Minimum Snark." The winning entry included five columns: Liberals, Get Patriotic and Ditch the Volvo; Obama and Congress Shouldn't Let Polls Guide Health Reform; Why Americans Love to ...
Politics Daily just turned one year old! Melinda Henneberger, PD's editor in chief, treats early arrivals to a retelling of our online paper's "creation myth," and kicks off the evening's "civilogue." Religion reporter David Gibson, just back from Rome, speaks about the crisis facing the Catholic Church. Carl Cannon, PD's deputy editor, introduces the debate between PD columnists Peter Wehner and David Corn (moderated by military writer David Wood) on our prospects in Afghanistan. ...
Here's good news! A quick tour of new and improved news-and-infotainment websites -- dozens of them -- reveals that women by the droves are successfully making the leap from old journalism to new media. Just the other day, as if to underscore this trend, a Business Insider article featured 25 media stars that have made that leap, and 13 of them -- 52 percent -- are women. Maybe that's not such a big number, but it looms large next to the pitiful number of women (six) named by the National Law Journal among the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. Worse, the investor George Soros, the ...
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