This Sunday, The New York Times' Sharon Otterman introduced readers to slow-blogging, an approach to Web writing "inspired by the slow food movement, which says that fast food is destroying local traditions and healthy eating habits... slow bloggers believe that news-driven blogs like TechCrunch and Gawker are the equivalent of fast food restaurants — great for occasional consumption, but not enough ...

Last week, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz wrote about Twitter, the kinda useful, sorta ubiquitous, sure to be short-lived new tool for journalists—and cellphone-enabled journalist-like individuals—who want to bring readers the world in 140-characters or less. Mr. Kurtz called twittering "the digital equivalent of a sound bite, a throat-clearing, a terse observation or two for a cloistered ...

On Saturday, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz got his hands on a new set of Nielsen numbers for the Fox Business Network. How's Rupert Murdoch's fledgling cable business-news network doing? According to Mr. Kurtz the numbers to date remain far behind competitor CNBC. "Fox News executives knew it would be a long, uphill battle to challenge CNBC ...