September 20, 2007
CJR panel discussion now available as podcast
On Tuesday evening I attended the Columbia Journalism Review’s panel discussion convened to explore the topic presented in Steve Wasserman’s September/October issue cover story, “Goodbye to All That”: The case of the vanishing (newspaper) book review. It was among the most lively panel discussions I’ve attended in months, with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Carlin Romano and Wasserman butting heads over how to reach a mass audience—and what should be expected of them once you’ve done so. Wasserman’s original essay was discussed briefly in this earlier post, and the panel was summed up nicely (with video!) by James Marcus at House of Mirth. Now CJR has made available a podcast of the discussion. Kudos to the magazine for being both tech savvy and timely.