The latest of the new-wave of journalism websites is live.
What we have now is a brash wave of Yellow Journalism, a term coined in the mid-1890s to characterize sensational journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
Salmon was talking up the new wave of explanatory journalism sites, like Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, or Vox.
So it's a shame the new wave of data journalism hasn't gone a little further: the deep numbers and the big charts and the key explainers are your chance to personalize the news, to say what it means.
News will be another: watch for a new wave of citizen-journalism thinkpieces the first time someone happens across a big, breaking news event with their smartphone and a live-streaming app.
And the rhetoric of the new wave of creativity in journalism is spattered with words that denote transformation.
In the 1970's, a wave of young idealists took to journalism, inspired by the Watergate reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
And that's the shame in so much of this new wave of explanatory journalism, and in our Twitter-fed breaking news environment: it's as if the nerds building the "future of journalism" forgot the importance of the scoops at its foundation.
They are making broadcasts of local interest and handing out wind-up radios.In the world of journalism, meanwhile, some hard thinking is going on about how to stop abuse of the air waves.
But ultimately Reston's genteel journalism collided with a wave of change that swept into Washington in the time of Vietnam and Watergate, transforming a distinctly cozy governing town into a swirl of cynicism and rancor.
When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that he would defect from the New York Times, it began a wave of new, new money-backed "personal brand" journalism startups that launch in earnest with FiveThirtyEight on ESPN next week.
