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1. Darts and Laurels

   Darts and Laurels

   September 21, 2010 11:53 AM

   In an effort to fill the Monday edition, traditionally a thin news day everywhere, city editor Peter Salter has tried a few gimmicks in his ten years at the Lincoln Journal Star in Nebraska. One was a feature he... Continue reading

2. Darts and Laurels

   Darts and Laurels

   July 27, 2010 08:00 AM

   On Valentine’s Day weekend in 2003, a gang of Italian thieves, led by a man named Leonardo Notarbartolo, broke into the Diamond Center, a vault in Antwerp, Belgium. Using items like Styrofoam, a dustmop handle, and hairspray, the thieves... Continue reading

3. The News Frontier

   Twitter + Diplomacy = Danger: Stray Voltage!

   June 30, 2010 11:30 AM

   Two State Department staff members leading a delegation of Silicon Valley executives to Syria have learned that social media and diplomacy don't always go together. Syria, a closed society that blocks its citizens’ access to sites like Google, Facebook, and... Continue reading

4. The News Frontier

   2010 Knight News Challenge Winners Announced

   June 16, 2010 04:02 PM

   The latest Knight News Challenge has been closed and the winners are in, just announced earlier today. First, the bad news. No one appears to have figured out how to Save Journalism. But the good news is, lots... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   All Talk and No Oil Cap Makes Barack A Dull Boy

   June 16, 2010 02:52 PM

   Eight weeks into the biggest oil spill disaster in American history and beset by criticism of the federal reaction to the fiasco, President Barack Obama used his very first Oval Office address last night to discuss a plan for the... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   The Man on the Street

   May 28, 2010 12:51 PM

   Lots of people walk through the doors of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism every day. Just this past month, some of them have included Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Ian Johnson; Mark Halperin and John Heileman, co-authors of... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

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

   May 25, 2010 08:30 AM

   Yesterday, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released another of their comprehensive and fascinating research reports on our ever-changing media diets - this one about the intersection between social media (blogs, Twitter, YouTube) and... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

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

   May 24, 2010 10:55 AM

   Sometimes iPads, Kindles and Nooks just don't fly. As reported by a friend, the following is an actual announcement made in preparation for takeoff on American Airlines Flight 2223 from New York's La Guardia airport to St. Louis on Wednesday,... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Neither Taylor Momsen Nor David Carr Wrote This Headline

   May 17, 2010 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 art of the reductive, sexed-up, search engine-optimized headline as practiced by online news outlets, including, most ably, the... Continue reading

10. Behind the News

    Huffington Post and the Art of the Headline

    May 10, 2010 12:08 PM

    Everyone’s heard The Huffington Post described as the Drudge Report of the left, but someone once told me that they thought of the HuffPo as the New York Post for liberals, which I think makes a lot of sense. Both... Continue reading

11. Darts and Laurels

    Darts and Laurels

    May 3, 2010 03:54 PM

    Complaints about Toyota and Lexus cars suddenly accelerating out of control began surfacing about a decade ago, and a series of inconclusive federal investigations followed. But despite the reams of auto coverage churned out by the automotive press and in... Continue reading

12. The News Frontier

    Ethics for the Investigators

    April 26, 2010 12:57 PM

    Today, the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Journalism Ethics, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (a nonprofit news organization) and the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois (endowed the John S. and James... Continue reading

13. The News Frontier

    Face, Meet Post

    April 26, 2010 11:55 AM

    On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to The Washington Post’s Web site were greeted with a new feature on the home page. Along with the news of the day was a window prominently displayed in the upper right corner showing... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    You Pick It, You Report It

    April 23, 2010 04:01 PM

    The Faster Times, an online newspaper launched in July 2009 (tagline: “A new type of newspaper for a new type of world”), has introduced a new kind of investigative model for that new world. The initiative allows readers to <a... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

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

    April 23, 2010 10:12 AM

    It's been about a week since that Icelandic volcano whateveritscalled has been busy shutting down European airspace and bringing us back to the steamship age while causing news anchors to trip over its multisyllabic name. Now Al Jazeera English has... Continue reading

16. News Meeting

    Checking In On “This Week’s” Fact Checking

    April 20, 2010 03:50 PM

    It’s been about three weeks since ABC’s “This Week” host, Jake Tapper, took up NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen on his challenge to fact check statements made by Sunday morning news show guests. NBC's "Meet... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Gizmodo’s iPhone story and Checkbook Journalism

    April 20, 2010 11:36 AM

    Today we learn that not one but two media companies with some of the most top-secret-hush-hush internal practices out there, Google and Apple, have recently suffered a major breach of that super-secrecy. Google, which disclosed back in January that it... Continue reading

18. The News Frontier

    Robot Journalism and the Future of Digital Media

    April 19, 2010 02:02 PM

    Starting in 2011, Columbia University will be offering a new combined degree between the journalism school and engineering school, which will aim to blaze a trail in the future of online journalism and bridge the divide between computer... Continue reading

19. Behind the News

    A Look at CJR’s Past Coverage of Monday’s Pulitzer Prize Winners

    April 14, 2010 11:14 AM

    If calling the Pulitzer Prize winners were like picking a Sweet 16 bracket for March Madness, CJR didn’t exactly win the office pool this year. Let’s just say we picked Kansas over Northern Iowa. Not that we bet... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Newsprint on Film, a Retrospective (Death Knell)

    April 9, 2010 11:36 AM

    New York City's Film Forum theater is hosting a four week film series of newspaper-themed movies, featuring "the faded world of news diggers, gossip mongers, scoop hounds, pipe artists, scandal chasers and sob sisters," as Clyde Haberman has... Continue reading

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