News

"News is a Verb" by Pete Hamill, 1998. This book is triple fascinating. It is written well. It lays out the case for how to be a successful newspaper in great detail, including writing well throughout the paper, knowing your community and writing for the Sweeneys. It also resonates with current discussion on energy, climate change, and the deficit. It resonates because, for newspapers, it brings up all of the variables not just the ones that an author might like. You have to look at all the variables if you want to solve a problem not just get some money to not solve it.