37. Should news be entertaining?

Did the Serial podcast draw necessary attention to a potential wrongful conviction? Or did it turn a murder into entertainment?

17. Does the Internet unite or divide us? Does it expose us to different ideas from faraway lands, or does it allow us to filter them out and more easily find information that confirms our biases? Does it connect us with people completely different than us, or allow us to find people very similar to us and ignore the rest?

7. What makes a magazine successful? How can some magazines thrive and new ones be created despite the rapid decline in print advertising revenue? What differentiates those that are thriving and those that are struggling? What exactly is a magazine, and what makes the value of a magazine unique, for readers and for advertisers? Will magazines exist…

40. What is “product” in journalism? Business functions usually have sales, production, marketing, accounting, distribution, etc. To what extent do media companies fit this framework?

I’ll ask this week’s question in a flow chart.

61. How well does the analogy between sports and politics work?

Both share key players, a story arc, big audiences and a big reveal at the end.

65. If scoops make a journalist, and sources dole out scoops, do sources make journalists?

Are scoops the currency of journalism?

Imagine it’s two weeks ago and you work high up in the Hillary campaign. Hillary has…

52. As journalists are paid less and less, are they becoming underqualified?

Sure, many journalists…

48. How should the terms “business side” and “editorial side” be used, if at all? We all intuitively understand what they refer to — but does the utility of the terms lead to organizational silos? What’s the right balance between keeping a wall between church and state and working as a unified team?