The entire piece, by Michael Massing for The New York Review of Books, is worth reading, but this bit stuck with me:
During a recent visit to [Talking Points Memo]’s office, on West 20th Street in Manhattan, the place seemed eerily quiet as a dozen or so young reporters, writers, and “aggregators” (who link to other Web sites) peered intently at their computer screens. […]
Over the years, [TPM founder Josh] Marshall has helped train many cyber-savvy reporter-bloggers who have taken their skills to other, better-endowed institutions. Take the example of Paul Kiel. […]
Kiel is an example of an emerging new breed of “hybrids,” schooled in both the practices of print journalism and the uses of cyberspace.