One of the best quotes ever. Dowd routinely gets the good stuff.

Quoted: “For people who still love print, who like to hold it, feel it, rustle it, tear stuff out, do their I. F. Stone thing, it’s important to remember that people are living longer,” he said. “That’s the most hopeful thing you can say about print journalism, that old people are living longer.”

Quoted: Even if Brill recruits 95 percent of the top newspapers and magazines in the country, welds digital-rights-management security bracelets onto all content, and assassinates hackers who redistribute copy without authorization, the idea can't work.

Quoted: Maybe Brill's business model should find a way to start billing the millions of free-riders who pick up pre-read copies in coffee stores or family members who share newspapers at home.

New venture by former PI'ers

Quoted: Seattle PostGlobe - Seattle News 2.0

Quoted: True/Slant takes a novel approach to Web journalism with new forms of advertising and an effort to blend journalism and social networking.

Quoted: "We think it's a cultural disaster," said Hans Holm, who served as the chief editor of Post-och Inrikes Tidningar for 20 years.

Quoted: Like many journalists, I thought of PR as an exercise in spin -- the antithesis of the journalist's search for truth. So what changed my mind?

The Herald recently launched a Spanish-speaking weekly, La Raza del Noroeste, which is distributed throughout the Puget Sound region. Take that, Times!

This is its web site, which doesn't do it justice. The printed version is way more colorful and interesting to look at (and probably read).

Wow. Who knew I needed so much help? Oh, wait. That was 108 years ago. Phew! Anyway, a blank book I bought for a friend at Elliott Bay bookshop had a quote from this book, "Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide (1898)". The quote on the blank book is: "Write very plainly, not too small, leaving a good space between the words and lines." But a more interesting excerpt by far is found at this dotted site.

Quoted: Women enjoy a reputation for slipshod style. They have earned it. A long and intimate familiarity with the manuscript of hundreds of women writers, renowned ...