http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/31/business/marketwatch/main4559732.shtml
Three observations:
1. Nathan Thornburgh was "working the edges of the story," as I like to call it. Instead of going to the McCain-Palin rally in Ohio, the center of where the action was, he booked a flight to Anchorage.
2. They're measuring readership by clicks or unique page views instead of circulation -- "For instance, a recent story on Palin ... drew 508,980 page views, according to Time spokesman Daniel Kile." Before the Internet, there was no good way to measure how many people read a given story.
3. His resume sort of works the edges of the profession, to coin a phrase. Instead of majoring in print journalism at something like the Medill School, he taught English, played saxaphone and started writing music reviews in an alternative weekly. My kind of guy? Maybe, for someone who got a Ph.D. in Shakespeare and went next to covering the Anderson County (Tenn.) sheriff's police next.
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