You Get What You Pay For

In the wake of OK! magazine’s exclusive on Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy, The New York Times writes about the growth of checkbook journalism–that is, paying sources for the rights to stories. 

It’s hard to believe that, with competitive pressures increasing across the industry, the trend won’t soon migrate from celebrity journalism to more Read More

The O.F.I. Moment

On a recent rainy morning, Alyse Grace was standing in the Trader Joe’s on 14th Street, discussing her struggle to be ecologically conscious. “You get to this point where you feel so overwhelmed and so hopeless and so fed up with feeling small,” said Ms. Grace, 29, who traded her 24-packs of Poland Spring for Read More