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Bad News

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:14:06 -0500

By Craig Silverman They went looking for crap, and by golly they found plenty of it. Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism. The students, along with other NewsTrust users, spent...

State of the Media, By the Numbers

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:35:46 -0500

By Alexandra Fenwick The annual State of the Media report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism was released this morning. The report looks back on how every part of the media fared in 2009, including newspapers, magazines, network news, cable television, and online sites. It’s not the most uplifting bit of news about the news--but in...

Comments of the Week

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:59:21 -0500

By The Editors At the end of each week, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received that week. Think we’ve missed something? Well… comment! Rahm, Off the Record This week’s “News Meeting’ question noted that the author of one of the many recent stories on Rahm Emanuel wrote that the chief of...

Le Nouvelliste Returns

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:35:42 -0500

By Betwa Sharma and Mohammad Al-Kassim PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti’s oldest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, is reviving gradually. The publication was out of action for more than a month after a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean nation on January 12. Determined to get some reporting done in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, editor Max Chauvet and a small team wandered about shooting video on handycams and...

Zonied Out

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:17:07 -0500

By Alexandra Fenwick In 2006, Adam Klawonn cashed out his newspaper job vacation pay to reinvent himself as a digital journalist. He bought a laptop and a camcorder, and trained himself how to create a blog, edit HTML code, shoot video and edit it in Final Cut Pro, edit photos, create graphics in Photoshop, and manage a Web site—specifically, “The Zonie...

"Rejuvenating American Journalism"

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:58:22 -0500

By The Editors Among those who care about serious journalism, some are counting on an economic comeback that will bring sufficient media advertising back to newspapers and Web sites to support quality reporting; others bet on the evolution of pay walls and a public that will change course and learn to buy news content; still others put their money on other kinds of...

Delacorte Lecture with Adam Pitluk

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:19:50 -0500

By The Editors On February 24, 2010, American Way editor Adam Pitluk delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Video of the lecture is embedded below. Video courtesy Meredith Melnick.

Comments of the Week

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:39:53 -0500

By The Editors At the end of each week, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received that week. Think we’ve missed something? Well… comment! Amped Up About NPR The March/April issue of the magazine includes Jill Drew’s detailed look at National Public Radio, which asks: can Vivian Schiller, NPR’s new president and chief...

Press Forward: Authority and Credibility

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:37:36 -0500

By The Editors

The Perils of Reporting from Gaza

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:49:32 -0500

By Ashley Bates On February 14 in the Gaza Strip, Hamas arrested Paul Martin, a British documentary filmmaker, on suspicions that Martin had “committed offenses against Palestinian law… that harms the security of the country.” Martin was about to testify on behalf of a Palestinian militant who had been accused of collaborating with Israel. Martin’s arrest and continued detention has raised...

The Atlantic Tweaks its Web Redesign

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:55:40 -0500

By Alexandra Fenwick At 1 a.m. last Friday, TheAtlantic.com rolled out a much-anticipated new redesign. By 4 p.m. Monday, the redesign had already undergone a redesign. Web site redesigns always provoke a bit of howling from loyal visitors who are used to the old layout (See: every time Facebook has ever changed its homepage). But the pushback against The Atlantic’s...

Delacorte Lecture with Chris Dixon

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:13:55 -0500

By The Editors On February 17, 2010, New York art director Chris Dixon delivered a Delacorte Lecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Video of the lecture is embedded below, and can also be accessed here. Video courtesy Alan Haburchak.

Carlson Calling

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:00:00 -0500

By Greg Marx Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson’s already long and varied journalistic résumé added a new entry: Web impresario. In January, the conservative former Crossfire host launched The Daily Caller, a D.C.-based site that covers government and politics. Last month, Carlson spoke about the venture with assistant editor Greg Marx for an interview published in the March/April issue of CJR. A longer...

Magazines and Their Web Sites

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:01:37 -0500

By Victor Navasky with Evan Lerner CJR recently conducted a survey of standards and practices at magazine Web sites. The full report can be viewed here. John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founder of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, once observed that where the new (i.e. digital) media are concerned, “we are immigrants in the land of our children.” Nowhere is...

Comments of the Week

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:57:58 -0500

By The Editors Every Friday, we excerpt some of the most insightful, articulate, interesting, and entertaining comments we’ve received that week. Think we’ve missed something? Well… comment! The Scientology Study On Monday, CJR executive editor Mike Hoyt wrote a post for The Kicker in response to a Howard Kurtz column about the Church of Scientology commissioning several veteran journalists...