It’s taking a shockingly long time for newspapers to wake up to the possibilities of online video - Mathew notes a recent example that illustrates the possibilities.

The Globe has announced that the wall has come down for some paid content: “Every Globe columnist, daily horoscopes, crosswords, Sudoku puzzles and a suite of news-tracking tools are now free. Margaret Wente, Christie Blatchford, Jeffrey Simpson and the rest of The Globe’s best-known columnists can join the fray and add their talented voices to [...]

The NYT on how financially-strapped newspapers are sending fewer reporters to tag along on the campaign trail. This seems like a good thing to me - I can’t think now of any genuinely useful reporting to come from the campaign bus. And with the news media’s near-fetishization of McCain as an example, it [...]