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1. Behind the News

   A Weighty Subject

   October 6, 2009 09:09 AM

   Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, sat down with CJR recently discuss the state of journalism before speaking to students and faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Best Political Protest Ever

   October 5, 2009 06:49 PM

   Teabag Party-ers, 9/12'ers, angry town hall crowds, Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, G-20 crazies, Greenpeace, protesters everywhere, may I please introduce: European dairy farmers. Take note. They could teach you all a thing or two about how to match your form... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Making a Profit While Bankrupting the Store

   October 5, 2009 06:40 PM

   Here's a riddle. How are mattress factories and newspaper companies alike? This piece on the front page of today's New York Times titled, "Profits for Buyout Firms As Company Debt Soared," is about Simmons... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Levi Johnston Does It With Protection

   October 5, 2009 05:26 PM

   Sarah Palin's daughter's baby daddy is in a commercial for . . . pistachios? Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Covering the Great Recession

   October 5, 2009 03:01 PM

   A new study of financial crisis coverage, released today by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, shows that the little guy lost out. The gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression has been covered in... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Press Freedom, Russia and Shish Kebab

   October 5, 2009 12:11 PM

   The latest dust up over press freedom in Russia started over the name of a shish kebab restaurant. From sometime CJR contributor, Julia Ioffe, for Newsweek's "Wealth of Nations" blog: Here's how it happened: the restaurant in question... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Conde Nast closing Gourmet, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Cookie

   October 5, 2009 10:44 AM

   Not Cookie! Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Reporter at Sea-Sick

   October 2, 2009 04:04 PM

   File this under newspaper promotional contests that make us feel sick to our stomach. USA Today is teaming up with cruise line Royal Caribbean International in a contest headlined "Royal Caribbean and USA TODAY Open... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Berlusconi and Press Freedom, Petition Edition

   September 28, 2009 03:19 PM

   La Repubblica, Italy's second-largest newspaper, was sued for defamation earlier this summer by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for repeatedly publishing a list of ten questions that Berlusconi has refused to answer about "consorting with teenage girls, naked... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    CBS goes GlobalPost-al

    September 28, 2009 02:48 PM

    GlobalPost and CBS plan to make beautiful news together, according to this story by David Carr in today's New York Times. CBS is the latest media enterprise that the start-up international news Web site has added to its client... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Gang Land Entrepreneur

    September 28, 2009 01:47 PM

    In a feature story in yesterday's Washington Post, Jerry Capeci's subscription-only "Gang Land" Web site is held up as a possible template for newspapers trying to figure out how to charge for content on the Web. Capeci's column... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Lofty Living, On the Cheap

    September 25, 2009 05:39 PM

    Dear New York Times Home & Garden section: I like you. I do. But why do you insist on wasting precious resources writing about superficial people and their superficial-ness? Witness: The first installment of "On the Cheap,"... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    The Five W’s, Google, and You

    September 25, 2009 05:27 PM

    In an attempt to find out the name for the trend (especially in the tech world: twitter, flickr, I'm talking to you) that is the intentional usage of the lower case for proper nouns that should be capitalized, I did... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Speaking of Ahmadinejad … And Running Out Of Things To Say

    September 25, 2009 04:25 PM

    With air time to fill as they awaited a press conference from President Barack Obama about a secret nuclear facility in Iran, a panel of commentators on this morning's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" found themselves turning from the topic... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    More on Coupons and Credibility

    September 25, 2009 02:56 PM

    So the people behind the media usage and credibility survey we mentioned earlier today were kind enough to write back to clarify the definition of the "free shopper newspaper" category that they reported has seen an increase in... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Ahmadinejad Gets His Morning News Bulletin

    September 25, 2009 02:20 PM

    Time magazine Managing Editor Richard Stengel got to break the news to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad this morning that President Barack Obama was about to accuse Iran of building a secret nuclear facility. Just watch Ahmadinjad's face. He looks slightly... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Painting a Pretty Picture of Sewage

    September 25, 2009 11:23 AM

    Maira Kalman has a new illustrated (and reported!) blog on the New York Times Web site today, extolling the virtues of…the city's sanitation and sewage departments(!). Kalman,... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Survey Says … In Penny-Savers We Trust

    September 25, 2009 10:33 AM

    A new survey measuring media usage finds that Americans, or at least the 1,000 surveyed, are increasingly getting their news online and from radio and that television is deemed the most credible source of news. The survey,... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Glenn Beck; PoMoCon

    September 24, 2009 11:30 AM

    Statistical wunderkind Nate Silver has the over/under on Glenn Beck's popularity on his site, Fivethirtyeight.com. Silver digs up and analyzes a question buried in a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that finds Beck is viewed fairly favorably,... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    McKinsey to Condé: 25 percent-ish

    September 23, 2009 11:19 AM

    The New York Observer reports today that initial recommendations from McKinsey & Co., hired to help streamline costs at Condé Nast, are in. According to the Observer, a handful of titles at 4 Times Square are being... Continue reading

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