Cartooning for a Sustainable Future

Will editorial cartoonists find their (paid) place on the web?

By Alysia Santo   Feb 15, 2012 at 01:30 PM

Dan Perkins, better known as Tom Tomorrow, has been creating the popular This Modern World comic strip for over two... More

Drawing the News Ain’t Easy

Editorial cartoonists struggle for funds, but not eyeballs

By Alysia Santo   Feb 7, 2012 at 06:00 PM

When The New York Times sent an e-mail to editorial cartoonists on Monday announcing that “The Sunday Review section is... More

Rebecca MacKinnon discusses new book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

By Alysia Santo   Feb 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM

Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, visited Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday to... More

Teaching Cyber-Security

Confidentiality promises often require technical skill

By Alysia Santo   Jan 24, 2012 at 01:38 PM

Since 2007, Steve Doig, an investigative journalist, has been giving a talk called “Spycraft: Keeping your sources private.” He’s presented... More

Tell Me a Secret

Soliciting leaks has its rewards, and challenges

By Alysia Santo   Jan 12, 2012 at 03:27 PM

When news website 100Reporters launched this past October, it had everything you’d expect from a promising journalistic startup: top journalists,... More

Spying on Journalists is Easy

Lax computer security creates easy targets

By Alysia Santo   Jan 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM

When promising anonymity, discreetly stashed notes and a tight lip are the precautions of journalism’s past. Reporters have gone to... More

Best of 2011: Alysia Santo

Santo picks her top CJR stories from the past year

By Alysia Santo   Dec 23, 2011 at 12:38 PM

Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team: I spent the day walking and talking with the bloggers, livestreamers, and tweeters in the... More

New Investment Company Buys Chicago Sun Times

By Alysia Santo   Dec 22, 2011 at 01:01 PM

A digitally focused company has purchased an old media standard. Sun-Times Media Holdings, owner of The Chicago Sun-Times and over... More

Calling Dr. Crowd

News outlets rely on the masses for public health stories

By Alysia Santo   Dec 14, 2011 at 03:47 PM

When we feel ourselves coming down with something, we look it up. If you type the words “I think I’m... More

Where’s the Party?

News startups bring their readers together offline

By Alysia Santo   Dec 7, 2011 at 05:36 PM

Burnt Orange Report, a popular political blog based in Austin, Texas, held its first Republican “debate watch party” in September... More

The Landman Cometh

Innovation Trail and other New York outlets help readers prepare for fracking prospectors

By Alysia Santo   Dec 1, 2011 at 03:36 PM

Knock, knock. Who’s there? It’s the “landman,” offering quick cash to extract natural gas on your property using a technique... More

Experiments in the Open Newsroom Concept

Swapping story scoops for reader input

By Alysia Santo   Nov 17, 2011 at 09:51 AM

OpenFile, a Canadian online-news organization, has modeled its editorial decisions around reader suggestions. The organization covers seven cities, from Halifax... More

Public Radio and the Freelance Journalist

Should the same code of ethics apply?

By Alysia Santo   Nov 14, 2011 at 05:22 PM

Caitlin Curran was a freelance web producer for WNYC/PRI’s radio show, The Takeaway, which has been covering the Occupy Wall... More

Debating Starkman’s “Confidence Game”

Rounding up responses

By Alysia Santo   Nov 14, 2011 at 01:16 PM

Dean Starkman’s critique of future-of-news gurus Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, and Jay Rosen, among others, made a bit of splash,... More

Have You Seen Fido?

Community news sites reunite pets with their owners

By Alysia Santo   Nov 8, 2011 at 03:52 PM

When a pet runs away, it can be hard for a distraught owner to know what to do first. Do... More