Darts and Laurels

The diamond thief’s tale sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was.

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jul 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM

On Valentine’s Day weekend in 2003, a gang of Italian thieves, led by a man named Leonardo Notarbartolo, broke into... More

Twitter + Diplomacy = Danger: Stray Voltage!

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jun 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM

Two State Department staff members leading a delegation of Silicon Valley executives to Syria have learned that social media and... More

2010 Knight News Challenge Winners Announced

Some clever ideas in the Sisyphean struggle to Save Journalism

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jun 16, 2010 at 04:02 PM

The latest Knight News Challenge has been closed and the winners are in, just announced earlier today. First, the bad... More

All Talk and No Oil Cap Makes Barack A Dull Boy

A roundup of press coverage of and reaction to Obama’s Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill

By Alexandra Fenwick   Jun 16, 2010 at 02:52 PM

Eight weeks into the biggest oil spill disaster in American history and beset by criticism of the federal reaction to... More

The Man on the Street

So a citizen journalist walks into a journalism school …

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM

Lots of people walk through the doors of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism every day. Just this past month,... More

How Blogs and Social Media Agendas Relate To Traditional, Oh To Hell With It

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 25, 2010 at 08:30 AM

Yesterday, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released another of their comprehensive and fascinating research reports on... More

Excuse Me, Miss. Your Sue Grafton Novel is Jamming the Plane’s Electronic Signals

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 24, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Sometimes iPads, Kindles and Nooks just don't fly. As reported by a friend, the following is an actual announcement made... More

Neither Taylor Momsen Nor David Carr Wrote This Headline

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 17, 2010 at 02:33 PM

David Carr's Media Equation column in today's New York Times discusses the death of the witty headline and explores the... More

Huffington Post and the Art of the Headline

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM

Everyone’s heard The Huffington Post described as the Drudge Report of the left, but someone once told me that they... More

Darts and Laurels

An LAT reporter did strong work on the Toyota story. But where was the rest of the auto press?

By Alexandra Fenwick   May 3, 2010 at 03:54 PM

Complaints about Toyota and Lexus cars suddenly accelerating out of control began surfacing about a decade ago, and a series... More

Ethics for the Investigators

A new report seeks standards for nonprofit newsrooms

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 26, 2010 at 12:57 PM

Today, the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Journalism Ethics, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (a nonprofit... More

Face, Meet Post

Reader ire draws changes to WaPo social media effort

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM

On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to The Washington Post’s Web site were greeted with a new feature on the home page.... More

You Pick It, You Report It

The Faster Times plots a new pro-am collaboration

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 23, 2010 at 04:01 PM

The Faster Times, an online newspaper launched in July 2009 (tagline: “A new type of newspaper for a new type... More

All Together Now: Ayva-Fiat-Yogurt-Merkel!

By Alexandra Fenwick   Apr 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM

It's been about a week since that Icelandic volcano whateveritscalled has been busy shutting down European airspace and bringing us... More