Late last month Keith Adams (2023) announced that the British website AROnline would be shutting down after a two-decade run. The plan is to stop adding new content at the end of November and unplug […]
“DeLorean spends the rest of his life in and out of court. He declares bankruptcy in 1999. His Bedminster estate is purchased by a Connecticut-based golf-course development partnership, who within two years will sell it […]
Joe Ligo shows the value of auto history films in a 10-minute piece about the 1954 Kaiser Special. He mixes historical footage and scenes from a test-drive of a restored Kaiser as the visual backdrop […]
Access journalism is what the Columbia Journalism Review (2014) defines as providing “insider information from powerful institutions and people.” This is a different kind of reporting — requiring “different skills, different practices, and different sources” that “produce […]
This is a form of journalism that holds people and institutions accountable for their actions. The Columbia Journalism Review (2014) noted that the difference between accountability journalism and access reporting is that the latter tells you “what […]
Sometimes harried automotive writers have to scratch the outer reaches of their creativity to come up with an engaging story angle. As a case in point, consider Matt Posky’s (2018) take on Nissan’s production of […]
“‘People of conscience inside the industry, they take their conscience to work. They’re up against the bean counters, the shut-up-and-work conformists, the bureaucrats,’ he said. Those people see a problem and then, after bumping against […]
Ralph Nader has been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame 50 years after he launched a high-profile — and highly successful — questioning of automobile safety. The Hall of Fame noted that Nader’s best-selling […]
I am of mixed mind about Andrew Garber’s (2012) Seattle Times “expose” on state purchases of hybrid SUVs. On the one hand, we need more reporting that shines a spotlight on state government. That can be […]
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