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1. The Kicker

   Bollinger and Lemann, Unplugged, on ‘Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open’

   April 6, 2010 12:24 PM

   Columbia Journalism School dean and a distant overseer of CJR, Nicholas Lemann, interviewed Columbia University President and First Amendment scholar, Lee C. Bollinger, last night about his latest book, published in January, “Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open: A Free... Continue reading

2. The News Frontier

   Stream of Consciousness

   March 31, 2010 04:09 PM

   About a month ago, while on a business trip to New York from his tech company’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, SnapStream president and CEO Rakesh Agrawal sported a hot pink wristband as he worked his way through the... Continue reading

3. Darts and Laurels

   Darts and Laurels

   March 25, 2010 06:00 AM

   In 1979, Des Moines Register reporters Mike McGraw and Margaret Engel discovered sixty mentally disabled men eviscerating turkeys at an Iowa meat plant for less than $70 a month. The workers were Texas natives who had aged out of... Continue reading

4. The News Frontier

   State of the Media, By the Numbers

   March 15, 2010 08:35 AM

   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,... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   Zonied Out

   March 11, 2010 04:17 PM

   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... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   More Fun With Headlines

   March 5, 2010 04:13 PM

   Earlier today, Clint flagged this gem of headline word-smithery. Well, here is another chuckler, noteworthy for the very lack of cleverness that made the first one so good - in fact it's a perfect candidate for... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   I Heart T-Shirts About Journalism

   March 5, 2010 12:05 PM

   For all you journalists out there who can get away with wearing T-shirts to work. Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   The Atlantic Tweaks its Web Redesign

   March 2, 2010 04:55 PM

   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... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Do Articles About Toxins Causing Autism Cause Hysteria? They Don’t Have To.

   February 26, 2010 03:22 PM

   New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof's recent piece discussing a study showing a possible link between chemicals in the environment and a rise in autism quickly made it to the top of The Times "most e-mailed" list... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Ace Ventura, Whale Detective

    February 26, 2010 01:00 PM

    Today The New York Times had an unintentionally hilarious story examining the intentions of a killer whale involved in a trainer's death at SeaWorld two days ago. (Headline: "Intentions Of Whale In Killing Are Debated.") If you’re not... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Breaking Up With Newspapers; A Love Story

    February 25, 2010 09:56 AM

    The manufactured pomp and circumstance of Valentine's Day has come and gone but this essay, written by Mimi Johnson, the wife of Steve Buttry, a lifelong newspaperman who finally fell out of love with a business... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Note To Self: Palin and the Handy Memo

    February 10, 2010 11:04 AM

    In the days since Gawker caught Sarah Palin with crib notes scribbled on her palm during her weekend speech at the National Tea Party Convention, ("Energy, Budget Tax Cuts, Lift American Spirits") a particularly funny bit of irony... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Landrieu on the Line

    February 4, 2010 01:17 PM

    When ACORN provocateur James O’Keefe and three accomplices were arrested at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office last week in the course of “maliciously interfering with a telephone system operated and controlled by the United States of America,” according to... Continue reading

14. Darts and Laurels

    Darts and Laurels

    February 3, 2010 06:46 PM

    In September, soon after the Times Publishing Company sold the venerable Congressional Quarterly to The Economist Group, the new owners fired forty-four reporters and editors—19 percent of the total newsroom staff at CQ and Roll Call, which the Economist... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Working at Home in Pajamas Sounds A Lot Like Being Laid Off

    February 2, 2010 12:18 PM

    After reporting on the phenomenon of start-ups as virtual workplaces, telecommuting, the rise of the four-day work-week and other cost cutting workplace innovations made possible thanks in part to technological things like Google and the Internet and electricity, Inc. magazine... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    Disastrous Comparisons

    January 20, 2010 03:10 PM

    Last week, as the story about the earthquake in Haiti became the story of the relief effort in Haiti, opinion makers and political fortune tellers everywhere couldn’t help but compare the disaster there to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Most Confusing Headline Of The Week

    January 19, 2010 08:58 AM

    In an effort to cram in all the sordid details of a terrible crime, The Daily News gives us this confusion, which would be entertaining if finally realizing its meaning weren't so gruesome. Continue reading

18. Behind the News

    The Haitian Times Heads to Haiti

    January 14, 2010 02:06 PM

    Last night, as he raced down the Van Wyck Expressway toward Kennedy Airport, en route to Haiti with a team of six journalists, CJR caught up via telephone with Garry Pierre-Pierre, editor and publisher of the Haitian Times, a Brooklyn-based... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    A Tasty Morsel

    January 14, 2010 12:42 PM

    Just a week after the New York Times cafeteria was closed down for a day after several employees reported food poisoning-related symptoms, DailyFinance's Jeff Bercovici has this report on the dirtiest and cleanest cafeterias in the New York... Continue reading

20. Behind the News

    Early Earthquake Coverage Roundup

    January 13, 2010 05:12 PM

    Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti poses a vexing question for journalists and readers everywhere: If a disaster happens in an under-reported third world country, and there are only a couple of reporters on hand to document it, does it make a... Continue reading

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