How to publish columns spiked by your editor

Los Angeles Times writer Patrick Goldstein was unhappy when a column he wrote suggesting that his paper adopt the Mail on Sunday's idea of giving away music as it did with Prince's CD was spiked. But every word of his column ended up being run on the newsblog LA Observed. Its founder, Kevin Roderick, says: "A killed story used to be pretty much dead unless it got leaked to another newspaper". But the online alternative makes it "very hard to keep secrets in a newsroom anymore." (Via New York Times)